• 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

Doctoral theses

• 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

• 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.