
Gunnar Nützmann
Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin
Profile
- Modeling of flow and transport processes in the subsurface (groundwater and unsaturated zone)
- Modeling of surface and subsurface water flow and solute transport using numerical models
- Hydrological modeling at different scales (from transects to catchments)
- Urban water management, bank filtration and artificial groundwater recharge
Scientific education
- Diploma degree in Mathematics, 1973, University of Rostock
- Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.), 1981, Academy of Sciences, Berlin
- Habilitation degree (Venia Legendi in Groundwater Hydrology), 1998, TU Berlin
Professional experience
1977-1981 Research Assistant at the Research Centre of Soil Fertility, Dept. Agricultural Water Management, Müncheberg
1982-1991 Senior Scientist at the Institute of Mechanics, and the Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Academy of Sciences, Berlin
1992-2000 Senior Scientist in the Department Ecohydrology at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
2001-2017 Head of the Department Ecohydrology at the IGB
since 2017 Deputy Head of the Department Ecohydrology and 2nd Deputy Director a. i. at the IGB
since 2001 Professor for Hydrology, Geographical Department, Humboldt University Berlin
Publications
Projects
Selected research projects and doctoral theses
- DFG Graduate School 780-Perspectives on Urban Ecology: PI of the Part Urban Hydrosphere. 2005-2008: Urban groundwater resources under changed climate and anthropogenic impacts; 2008-2011: Optimizing urban nature development-the role of pharmaceutical compounds on water resources
- DFG Project LE 1356/3-1: Einflüsse von Makrozoobenthos auf Stofftransport und biogeochemische Prozesse in Seesedimenten. Add. Applicant, 2006-2010
- PI of the NASRI-Project: Natural and artificial systems for recharge and infiltration: Removal of general and trace organic compounds in bankfiltration, funded by Veolia Water, Berliner Wasserbetriebe, 2001-2005
- Head of the International Leibniz-Graduate School Aqualink, founded by the WGL, 2012 – 2015
- PI of the EU International Training Program INTERFACES, 2014-2017
- PI of the EU International Training Program HYPOTRAIN, 2015-2018
- Senior Speaker of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg UWI (Urban Water Interfaces), a co-operation between IGB and TU Berlin, 2015-2018
Supervised doctoral theses in last 5 years
- Stefan Banzhaf (2012): Interaction of surface water and groundwater in the hyporheic zone – application of pharmaceuticals and temperature as indicators, Dissertationsschrift, Technische Universität Berlin
- Sven Frei (2013): Interactions between hydrology and biogeochemistry within riparian wetlands: potential implications for internal biogeochemical process distributions and solute exports. Dissertationsschrift, Universität Bayreuth
- Stefan Riha (2013): Detektion und Quantifizierung von Cyanobakterien in der Ostsee mittels Satellitenfernerkundung. Dissertationsschrift, Universität Rostock
- He Yin (2014): Understanding land use and land cover changes in Inner Mongolia using remote sensing time series. Dissertationsschrift, Humboldt-Universität, September 2014
- Jannick Jensen (2014): Flow and Transport in Riparian Zones. PhD Dissertation, Universität Kopenhagen
- Jialian Cai (2014): An integrated study of hydraulic anisotropy and its impact on saltwater intrusion in an inland aquifer: Methodology, modeling and recommendations. Freie Universität Berlin
- Marcus Bruno Domingues Soarez (2015): The influence of high infiltration rates, suspended sediment concentration and sediment grain size on river and lake bed clogging. Technical University Berlin, Fakultät Prozesswissenschaften
- Sebastian Schimmelpfennig (2015): Lake Tegel: Hydrodynamics, pharmaceutical micro-pollutants and management strategies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut
- Franziska Pöschke (2016): Approaches to identify groundwater discharge towards and within lowland surface water bodies on different scales. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut
- Matthias Rothe (2016): Exploring Vivianite in freshwater sediments – from the detection of mineral grains towards the understanding of their occurrence, Matthias Rothe (Doktorand), Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut
- Roshni Arora (2016): River temperature behaviour in changing environments: trends, patterns at different spatial and temporal scales and role as a stressor, Freie Universität Berlin
- Sajid Pareth (2016): Trends in surface temperature from new long-term homogenized thermal data by applying remote sensing techniques and its validation using in-situ data of five southern European lakes. Freie Universität Berlin
Editorial activities, commissions
- Nützmann G, Viotti P, Aagaard P (eds.) 2005. Reactive transport in soil and groundwater: processes and models. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 295 pp.
- Abesser C, Wagener Th, Nützmann G (eds.) 2008. Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction: Process Understanding, Conceptualization and Modelling. IAHS Publ. 321, 214 pp.
- Abesser C, Nützmann G, Hill MC, Blöschl G and E Lakshmanan (eds.) 2011. Conceptual and Modeling Studies of Integrated Groundwater, Surface Water and Ecological Systems. IAHS Publication 345, IAHS Press Wallingford UK, 274 pp.
- 2008 Co-chair of DWA-Working group “Interactions between surface water and groundwater.
- 2009German Representative for the ICGW (Internationale Kommission für Grundwasser) der IAHS
- Endlicher W, Hostert P, Kowarik I, Kulke E, Lossau J, Marzluff J. van der Meer E, Mieg H, Nützmann G, Schulz M and Wessolek G (eds.) 2011
- Reviewer for Journals: Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Hydrological Science Journal, Ground Water, Water Resources Research, HESS, Hydrological Processes.