Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Professor for Physical Geography/Hydrology
Research Areas
- critical zone science
- catchment and process hydrology
- numerical modeling
- isotope methods
- ecohydrology
- regional focus: Eifel/Ardennes, Southwestern German Uplands, USA (Northwest, Southeast), Canada (Rocky Mountains), Oceania
Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
3.009
Meckenheimer Allee 172
53115 Bonn
Mailing address:
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Teaching
An overview of current and past courses can be found under teaching.
Office hours are held on Wednesdays from 9 -10 am. Please register in advance by mail during the semester break. During the lecture period, please sign the list at the entrance to Hydrology. (Meckenheimer Allee 172; 3rd floor on the left under the stairs).
CV
- 2018: Autoristation à Diriger des Recherches, University of Luxembourg
- 2011: PhD, Technische Universität München
- 2006: Diploma Hydrology with minors in Meteorology, Soil science, Physics, and Chemistry, Universität Freiburg
- 2013-2021: Senior Scientist, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- 2012-2013: Postdoc, University of Saskatchewan, Kanada
- 2011-2012: Postdoc, Oregon State University, USA
- Associate Editor Ecohydrology (Wiley) since 2018
- EGU Officer for the Organisation of Outstanding Student Presentations in the Hydrological Science Division (2015-2018)
- Peer Reviewer for about 20 journals in water and environmental science and geography
- Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the Austrian Science Fund; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Germany and the National Environmental Research Council, UK
- Conference/session organizer for EGU, AGU, CGU and the Gordon Research conferences
Projects/third party funding
Fire-Stream: Insights into Wildfire Effects on Streamflow Generation and Water Quality
Duration:
2024 - 2027
Principle Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Cooperation with:
Oregon State University
Funder:
VolkswagenStifutung
AGUA: Assessing Global Change impacts on streamflow dynamics using distributed hydrological modelling in a data-scarce tropical watershed in West Africa
Duration:
from 2024
Principle Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Funder:
Argelander Funding for doctoral students from the Global South
Hydro-Laws: Landscape Drivers of Water Sources and Flowpaths in Subtropical Catchment
Duration:
from 2023
Principle Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Funder:
Argelander Funding for doctoral students from the Global South
ROODY: Root dynamics under varying water and nutrient supply
Duration:
2019-2021
Principle Investigator:
PI Dr. Stan Schymanski (LIST)
Co-PI Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Funder:
Luxembourg National Research Fund
EFFECT: Vegetation effects on catchment travel times: Integration of ecohydrological separation in the Storage Selection (SAS) function framework
Duration:
2019 - 2022
Principle Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Funder:
Luxembourg National Research Fund
Awards
Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award
Year:
2022
Awarded for:
Benettin, P., Rodriguez, N. B., Sprenger, M., Kim, M., Klaus, J., Harman, C. J., et al. (2022): Transit time estimation in catchments: Recent developments and future directions. Water Resources Research, 58, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033096
Malcom G. Anderson Award
Year:
2021
Awarded for:
Outstanding Paper of the Year in Hydrological Processes
Luxembourg National Research Fund Award
Year:
2020
Awarded for:
Outstanding Scientific Publication
Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award
Year:
2019
Awarded for:
Rodriguez, N.B., Klaus, J. (2019): Catchment travel times from composite StorAge Selection functions representing the superposition of streamflow generation processes. Water Resources Research, 55, 9292-9314.
Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award
Year:
2018
Awarded for:
Klaus, J., Jackson, C.R. (2018): Interflow Is Not Binary: a Continuous Shallow Perched Layer Does Not Imply Continuous Connectivity. Water Resources Research, 54, 3988–4008.
Publications
Peer-reviewed Publications
A list of peer-reviewed ISI ranked articles can be downloaded here.
An overview of all publications can be found on Google Scholar.