QLAW Adapt
QLAW Adapt quantifies how blue-green infrastructure (e.g. de-sealing, infiltration, retention, and irrigation concepts) affects the urban water balance, sewer systems, and drinking water demand—both within the city and in surrounding areas (water resources and groundwater recharge). To this end, adaptation scenarios are developed together with Leipzig-based practice partners and represented in a digital twin. A particular focus is placed on legal prerequisites and barriers: the subproject explores how existing regulations and procedures can be further developed to enable the faster and more reliable implementation of water-sensitive measures.
Profiles
Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar
Dr.-Ing. Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar is a Senior Scientist and Urban Water Specialist in the Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology at UFZ. His research focuses on blue-green infrastructure for stormwater management, urban water and wastewater management, integrated wastewater management, and GIS-based decision support. After completing his PhD on wastewater treatment and biomass production using soil-willow systems, he joined UFZ in 2016.
Daneish Despot
Dr.-Ing. Daneish Despot is a Hydroinformatics Specialist in the Department of Systemic Environmental Biotechnology at UFZ and works in the Water-Sensitive Infrastructure Planning research group. His areas of expertise include urban drainage modeling, sewer processes, software and model development for water-sensitive urban planning, and data management systems for urban water infrastructures. Since 2022, he has been working as a Researcher at UFZ in Leipzig.
Andreas Marx
Dr. Andreas Marx heads the German Drought Monitor and the Central German Climate Office at UFZ. His work combines regional climate change, climate impacts, and adaptation with hydrological modeling, weather forecasting, and streamflow prediction. In addition, he actively facilitates the exchange of scientific knowledge with decision-makers from politics and industry.
Julian Schlaak
Julian Schlaak is based at UFZ in the Department of Hydrosystem Modeling. In the MOWAX project, he worked as a Research Associate on monitoring and modeling concepts for Saxony’s water balance. His work focuses on hydrological model calibration and the multivariable evaluation of hydrological models using different components of the water balance.
Moritz Reese
Prof. Dr. Moritz Reese is Head of the Department of Environmental and Planning Law at UFZ and Professor of European Environmental Law at Leipzig University. His research focuses on the foundations of environmental law, European and German environmental constitutional law, environmental law in the context of climate change, water law, public environmental services of general interest, waste management, and sustainable urban development.
Julia Zenetti
Dr. Jula Zenetti, LL.M., is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Environmental and Planning Law at UFZ. Her research focuses on the rights of nature, environmental constitutional law, water law, and sustainable regional development. Before taking up her postdoctoral position, she completed her doctorate at UFZ, worked as a policy advisor at the Saxon State Ministry for the Environment, and practiced as an attorney. She also completed an LL.M. degree in Lyon, France, and Maynooth, Ireland.