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I'm an Associate Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig, where I lead the Theoretical Ecohydrology Lab. I'm anxiously awaiting my tenure in AD 2027.

My lab's research aims to better understand the relation between plants, wildfire, and the water cycle through computational tools. We focus on model-based hypothesis testing and model development. We co-develop the ecohydrology module of the high-performance portable code SERGHEI and the plant hydraulics code SurEau-Ecos.

I was born in Berlin, grew up in Izmir, came back to Berlin to study civil engineering at Technische Universität Berlin, where I eventually got my PhD in hydrology in 2018, supervised by Reinhard Hinkelmann and Dongfang Liang. After that, I moved to Berkeley to work as a postdoc with Carl Steefel and Sergi Molins in the Geochemistry Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After being appointed as Assistant Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig in 2021, my family finally settled down in Brunswick.

I'm married to the love of my life, Anna Hong Xian, a screenwriter for film and television. We have a son together.

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