Dr. Lukas Riedel

Lukas is a PostDoc at the Weather and Climate Risk Group (Prof. David N. Bresch) and MeteoSwisscall_made. His research focuses on impact estimations of hydrometeorological events with CLIMADA in the Weather4UNcall_made project.

After studying Physics at Heidelberg Universitycall_made, Lukas conducted his PhD thesiscall_made on numerical modeling and data assimilation of soil water flow at the Institute of Environmental Physicscall_made in the research group for Terrestrial Systems and Chaotic, Complex, & Evolving Environmental Systems (TS-CCEEScall_made, Prof. Kurt Roth). He then joined the "Structures" Cluster of Excellencecall_made as PostDoc, developing a numerical elasticity model for biological cells and actin stress fibers in a joint effort of the group for Physics of Complex Biosystemscall_made (Prof. Ulrich Schwarz) and the Scientific Computing Groupcall_made (Prof. Peter Bastian) at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computingcall_made (IWR).

During his studies, Lukas co-developed DORiEcall_made, a numerical solver for soil water flow and passive solute transport, and Utopiacall_made, a software framework for modeling complex adaptive systems.