Curriculum Vitae

Team Leader Hydrological Modeling and Flood Risk Management at Erftverband

Post-Doc in the Institute for Groundwater Management at the Technical University of Dresden

Guest researcher in the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management at the Technical University of Munich

mail : daniel.bittner@erftverband.de

date of birth: November 10th, 1987

PhD at Technical University of Munich, Germany

PhD thesis: 'Uncertainty quantification in modeling karst water resources and the impacts of land use changes' (summa cum laude)

Master of Science in Geoscience at University of Trier, Germany

Master’s thesis: 'Numerical modeling of coupled surface and ground
water flow for the Middle Elbe, Germany'

Bachelor of Science in Applied Physical Geography at University of

Trier, Germany
Bachelor’s thesis: 'Evaluierung der Bodenhydrologischen
Kartieranleitung der DWA AG HW 1.3'

Team Leader Hydrological Modeling and Flood Risk Management, Erftverband, Bergheim

Team and project management

Design and implementation of flood protection concepts

Hydrological model development, sensitivity analyses and uncertainty quantification for flood forecasting and urban water management

Post-Doc, Institute for Groundwater Management (Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartmann), Technical University of Dresden

Project management of the DFG-funded ROCKAT project

PhD supervision

Research Hydrologist, Erftverband, Bergheim

Development of automated calibration routines for applied hydrological models

Model-based assessment of flood risk management measures

Leader of the water quality working group

Post-Doc, Chair of Hydrological Modeling and Water Resources (Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartmann), University of Freiburg

Project management of the DFG-funded ROCKAT project

PhD supervision

Research Associate, Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Disse), TU Munich

Project management of the Interreg Central Europe project boDEREC-CE 

Project supervisor of the UNMIX project 

Project management of the Interreg Central Europe project PROLINE-CE (finished, 2016 - 2019)

Research stay at University Toulouse III, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (Toulouse, France)

Temporal scale-dependent sensitivity analysis using discrete wavelet transform and active subspaces.

Research stay at University of Texas at Austin, Computational hydraulics group (Austin, USA)

Uncertainty quantification and dimension reduction for lumped modeling approaches with high-dimensional parameter spaces. 

Research stay at USGS California Water Science Center (San Diego, USA)

Software development and testing for complex integrated hydrologic modeling with the MODFLOW-based One-water framework. 

Research Fellow at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)

Hydrogeological consultation of the Federal Railway Authority (EBA)

Guest student at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)

Construction of a numerical model to couple the ground water and
the surface water flow for the Middle Elbe on regional scale

Geoscientist at the Grundbaulabor Trier, Dipl. - Ing. E. Lehmann

Project management of various construction projects in

Luxembourg and Germany

Member in DWA (German Association for Water, Wastewater and
Waste) HW 1.3 working group

Development of a hydropedological fieldguide to map and assess run-off and storage processes 

Lectureship at TU Munich

Numerical modeling of water demand and supply in arid regions (One-Water, USGS)

Lecture and Seminar

Karst hydrological field trip to Simetsberg

Virtual excursion

Numerical modeling of water demand and supply in arid regions (One-Water, USGS)

Lecture and Seminar

Hydrological statistics

Lecture and Seminar

Numerical modeling of water demand and supply in arid regions (One-Water, USGS)

Lecture and Seminar

Hydrological statistics

Lecture and Seminar

Water management at the catchment scale

Field trip to the Adige catchment

Hydrological statistics

Lecture and Seminar

ROCKAT (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)

Robust conceptualization of coupled karst flow and transport processes

Procope (funded by the French Government)

Post-doc scholarship for a 2-months research stay at University Toulouse III

TUM Incentive Fund (funded by TUM International Office)

Project to strengthen the US-German hydrologic model development group between USGS, Texas A&M and TUM.

BaCaTec (funded by BaCaTec)

Initialization of cooperation between TUM and the Information Sciences Insititute of University of Southern California

ERASMUS +

Lecturer scholarship to hold a seminar on integrated water resources management at University Toulouse III, 2020

Partnership Travel Grant (funded by TUM IGSSE)

Travel grant supporting the research collaboration between Dr. Wesley Henson (USGS, San Diego) and me

TUM Incentive Fund (funded by TUM International Office)

Project to initiate an international collaboration with USGS and FREEWAT group for integrated hydrologic modeling

ERASMUS +

Scholarship for workshop and IAH conference in Malaga, 2019

boDEREC-CE (funded by ERDF, Interreg)

Assessment of pharmaceutical drug residues in the aquatic environment

DHG (German Hydrological Society)

Fieldwork scholarship

DAAD Promos

Travel scholarship for a 3 months internship in Ecuador

Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Hydrological Sciences, Ecosystem Services, Italian Journal of Groundwater