ilhan özgen xian

Research interests

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

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.

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

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

Review committee member of nomination of Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Jade University of Applied Sciences, 2022