Dr. Adriane Hövel 

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Postdoctoral Researcher 


Department Catchment Hydrology
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4
06120 Halle/Saale, Germany  

+49 341 6025 3271

Research Interests

  • Runoff response drivers across different spatiotemporal scales
  • Hydrological response under land use and climate change
  • Quantifying resilience of hydrological systems
  • Linking hydrometric and isotopic signatures

 Academic Background

Since 2026/03 PostDoc at the Department of Catchment Hydrology, UFZ

Project: HydroSIGNS - Hydrometric and isotopic event SIGNatures to evaluate functional resilience of diverse hydrological Systems to global change
2021/10-2025/10 PhD at the Institute of Soil Physics and Rural Water Management, BOKU University, Vienna

Dissertation: Influence of hydro-meteorological variables on the runoff response at the catchment scale
2024/09-2024/10 Visiting PhD at the School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
2022/10-2022/12 Visiting PhD at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
2017/10-2020/05 M. Sc. Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2019/01-2019/07 Exchange Student, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2013/10-2017/03 B. Sc. Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
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2025

  • Hövel, A., Stumpp, C., Bogena, H., Lücke, A., Strauss, P., Blöschl, G., & Stockinger, M. (2025). Hydro‐Meteorological Drivers of Event Runoff Characteristics Under Analogous Soil Moisture Patterns in Three Small‐Scale Headwater Catchments. Hydrological Processes, 39(6), e70173. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70173

2024

  • Hövel, A., Stumpp, C., Bogena, H., Lücke, A., Strauss, P., Blöschl, G., & Stockinger, M. (2024). Repeating patterns in runoff time series: A basis for exploring hydrologic similarity of precipitation and catchment wetness conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 629, 130585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130585 
  • Hein, T., Auhser, A., Byekwaso, F., Graf, W., Hövel, A., Schmid, M., ... & Weigelhofer, G. (2024). Research on coupled socio‐ecohydrological systems—implementing a highly integrative and interdisciplinary research agenda in the Doctoral School “Human River Systems in the 21st Century (HR21)”. River Research and Applications, 40(9), 1754-1765. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4197