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Prof. Sabine Attinger

Nominated by

  • Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
  • AcademiaNet member since 10.01.2012
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Universität Jena


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics


Field

Environment, Physical sciences



Area of specialisation

Hydrogeology and catchment hydrology; multiscale modelling for geologic and hydrologic systems; scale of hydrologic systems; stochastic processes



Research interests

  • Optimal complexity of hydrologic models

  • Model uncertainty



Interested in

  • Management position, Professorship


Languages

English, German



Doctorate

  • 1997: Zeitliche Dynamik von effektiven Transportkoeffizienten in heterogenen porösen Medien ("Temporal dynamics of effective transport coefficients in heterogeneous porous media")


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2004: Mehrskalenmodellierung in terrestrischen Umweltsystemen ("Multiscale modelling in terrestrial environmental systems")




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1985
    Abitur (A-levels) in the subjects mathematics, Latin and history

  • 1987 – 1989
    Studied human medicine at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; completed pre-clinical examination

  • 1989 – 1994
    Studied physics at Ruhr University Bochum and Heidelberg University, Germany

  • 1994 – 1997
    Doctoral dissertation in theoretical physics at Heidelberg University under Prof. Heinz Horner

  • 1997 – 2002
    Research associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, under Prof. Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • 2002 – 2003
    Scientific coordinator for the Computational Lab at ETH Zurich

  • 2004
    Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) at ETH Zurich

  • 2004
    Offer of a C3 professorship in hydrogeology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

  • Since 2004
    Leader of the Division of Environmental Systems Computation and Monitoring at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

  • Since 2005
    University professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena; joint appointment with UFZ

Additional qualifications

  • Training in banking at the Deutsche Bank in Hannover, Germany, 1985 – 1987


Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements

Other activities and achievements/family

  • Mother of two children: Antonia (born 2002) and Julian (born 2005)


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