ilhan özgen xian

Research interests

2021–present
Assistant Professor, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Affiliate Faculty, Berkeley Lab, USA
2018–2021
Postdoc, Berkeley Lab, USA
2018
Postdoc, AICS RIKEN, Japan
2017
PhD, Computational Hydrology, TU Berlin, Germany
2012–2017
Research Associate, TU Berlin, Germany
2011
MSc, Civil Engineering, TU Berlin, Germany

Climate emergency calls for process-based modelling, 30 Mar 2022, UWI Guest Lecture, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Integrated surface–subsurface flow simulations in a mountainous catchment in Colorado, USA, 11 Feb 2022, Institute of Water and River Basin Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Contributions to the modeling of environmental flows in computational hydrology, In: Water Engineering and Development Centre seminar series, 15 Oct 2020, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Hyperbolizing the zero-inertia equation, In: Seminar on recent advances in shallow flow modeling, 21 Mar 2019, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Some contributions to the numerical solution of the zero-inertia model, 8 Mar 2018, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Integral porosity shallow water models for urban flood forecasting, In: 8th AICS International Symposium, 8 Feb 2018, Kobe, Japan.
Coarse grid methods for the Godunov-type shallow water model, In: EuroAqua Colloquium, 25 Jan 2017, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany.

Numerical methods for environmental flow modeling, International Journal on Geomathematics, in progress.
Coörganisers: K.T. Mandli, E. Matta
Innovations towards the next generation shallow flow models, Advances in Water Resources, 2020.
Coörganisers: X. Xia, J. Hou, D. Liang, Q. Liang, R. Hinkelmann

The shallow water model intercomparison session: Benchmarking overland flow simulations, IAHR World Congress 2022, Granada, Spain (accepted).
Coörganisers: D. Caviedes-Voullième, M. Morales-Hernández, X. Xia
Advances in modeling environmental flow across interfaces, SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences 2021, Milan, Italy.
Coörganisers: K.T. Mandli, E. Matta
Advances in shallow flow modeling for water resources and hydrological engineering, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA.
Coörganisers: M. Morales-Hernández, B.F. Sanders
Development and application of the next generation of shallow flow models, 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2018, Palermo, Italy.
Coörganisers: X. Xia, J. Hou, D. Liang, Q. Liang, R. Hinkelmann

Argonne Training Program on Extreme-scale Computing — Selected Participant, 2019
Chorafas Foundation Award in Engineering of Finance and Risk Management, 2017
Dr.-Ing. Ernst Trapp Award, 2012