Christoph Merz

Biography

Since 2010 Privatdozent at the Department of Earth Science of the FU Berlin “Workgroup Hydrogeology” 2010 Habilitation at the Department of Earth Science of the FU Berlin; Award of the "Venia Legendi" for Hydrogeology Title: “Process based regional modeling of water and solute fluxes in Pleistocene aquifer systems - Implications for water management strategies under pressure of global change” Since 1992 Scientist at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute for Landscape Hydrology; Head of the working group „Groundwater processes“ and head of the Hydrogeochemical Laboratory 1991 - 1992 Scientific assistant at the Institute of Geology, Geophysics, and Geoinformatics, Department of Resource- und Environmental Geology, FU-Berlin 1991 Dr. rer. nat, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Applied Geology Title: „Experimental studies to assess the migration behaviour of Cd, Zn, Fe and Mn under natural environmental redox conditions using radionuclides as tracer” 1979 - 1986 Study of Geology (Technical University of Aachen) Subjects: Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, Economic Geology and Petrology

Research Interest

Geochemical and hydraulic process studies in groundwater and seepage water using PHREEQC, FEFLOW, MODFLOW, HYDRUS, HP1. Identification and modelling of redox based substance transformation processes in combination with system analysis and multivariate statistical approaches for assessing the climate impact on hydrological and geochemical process dynamics Development and application of GIS based conceptual modeling tools to describe water and substance flux for hydrologic and geochemical river basin analysis Development and evaluation of actual management strategies for a sustainable groundwater protection at different scales