ilhan özgen xian
Research interests
- terrestrial ecohydrology
- urban ecohydrology
- disturbance ecology
Bio
- 2021–now
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
Invited talks
- Modelling the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum to assess tree mortality and wildfire risk, 11 Oct 2022, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
- Wasser in Zeiten des Klimawandels, 25 Aug 2022, phaeno Science Talk, phaeno, Wolfsburg, Germany.
- Climate emergency calls for process-based modelling, 30 Mar 2022, UWI Guest Lecture, Technische Universität Berlin, 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, Water Engineering and Development Centre seminar series, 15 Oct 2020, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
- Hyperbolizing the zero-inertia equation, 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, 8th AICS International Symposium, 8 Feb 2018, Kobe, Japan.
- Coarse grid methods for the Godunov-type shallow water model, EuroAqua Colloquium, 25 Jan 2017, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany.
Service
Editor
- 2022–now
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Review Editor.
Guest editor
- Numerical methods for environmental flow modeling, International Journal on Geomathematics, 2022. Coorganisers: K.T. Mandli, E. Matta
- Innovations towards the next generation shallow flow models, Advances in Water Resources, 2020. Coorganisers: X. Xia, J. Hou, D. Liang, Q. Liang, R. Hinkelmann
Session organiser
- Overcoming the demons of the past — Hacking process-based hydrology to conciliate advances into workable tools, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria. Coorganisers: C. Jackisch, R. Loritz, I. Özgen-Xian, D. Caviedes-Voullième
- The shallow water model intercomparison session: Benchmarking overland flow simulations, IAHR World Congress 2022, Granada, Spain. Coorganisers: 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. Coorganisers: K.T. Mandli, E. Matta
- Advances in shallow flow modeling for water resources and hydrological engineering, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA. Coorganisers: 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. Coorganisers: X. Xia, J. Hou, D. Liang, Q. Liang, R. Hinkelmann
Reviewer
- Referee for a broad range of journals.
- I recently decided to prioritise papers of journals associated with scientific societies in my field:
- for example, Geoscientific Model Development, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Hydrology Research, Peer Community Journal
- I then also decided to decline to referee papers for journals published by certain publishers who charge our university library excessive prices.
- See a statement by six scientific societies and text by Randy LeVeque for my motivation.
Committee
- Review committee member of nomination of Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Jade University of Applied Sciences, 2022
- PhD committee member (examiner) of J. Schwenkel, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2023
- PhD committee member (examiner) of H. von Häfen, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2023
- PhD committee member (chair) of G.A. Puliga, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2023
- PhD committee member (reviewer) of V.S. Gollo, Technische Universität Berlin, 2023
- PhD committee member (reviewer) of F. Tügel, Technische Universität Berlin, 2022
- PhD committee member (reviewer) of J. Zhao, Technische Universität Berlin, 2019
Memberships
- European Geosciences Union
- International Society for Porous Media
- Deutsche Hydrologische Gesellschaft