Bahar Bahrami

Bahar Bahrami is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computational Hydrosystems (CHS) at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, affiliated with the University of Potsdam. She has been conducting research since 2019 as part of the MOMENT project, which focuses on improving representations of integrated water and carbon cycles across ecosystems with emphasis on extreme events.

Her educational background includes:

• Dipl.-Ing. in Water Engineering and Management from BOKU University, Vienna (2018)
• Visiting Scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016)
• M.Sc. in Climatology in Environmental Planning from University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran (2009)
• B.Sc. in Natural Resources Engineering

Bahar's research spans multiple interconnected domains in environmental hydrology. She investigates the coupling mechanisms between water and carbon cycles, analyzes hydroclimatic patterns and extreme hydrological events, and applies advanced geo-statistical methods and optimization algorithms to environmental systems. Her work integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing technologies for comprehensive environmental analysis. As part of her doctoral research, she's parameterizing dynamic vegetation models using Multiscale Parameter Regionalization techniques and coupling them with the Hydrological Model (mHM) to enhance predictions of terrestrial water-carbon cycle interactions. This research utilizes data from the TERENO observatory network.

Her scholarly contribution includes a conference presentation at the EGU General Assembly 2018 focusing on evapotranspiration trends in Illinois watersheds, demonstrating her expertise in hydrological process analysis and modeling.

Bahar works within the research environment led by Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger (Head) and Prof. Dr. Luis Samaniego (Deputy Head), contributing to the department's mission of advancing computational hydrosystems research.