Johannes Vogel

Johannes Vogel is a PostDoctoral Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany, affiliated with the Department of Computational Hydrosystems and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI). He investigates drivers of forest mortality using explainable AI and remote sensing imagery, focusing on compound weather and climate events.

• PhD in Earth Sciences (2018-2022), University of Potsdam & Technical University of Berlin
• M.Sc. Global Change Ecology (2015-2018), University of Bayreuth
• B.Sc. Environmental Science (2012-2015), University of Oldenburg

His research integrates hydrological modeling, remote sensing, and climate change impacts to analyze forest mortality, compound climate events, and ecological vulnerabilities. Recent work includes impact-based flood forecasting, soil moisture dynamics, and AI-driven environmental analysis. Key projects involve the 4DHydro initiative and MW³ monitoring system for forest growth responses to climate extremes.

Article trends highlight compound climate risks, hydrological forecasting, and remote sensing applications in Germany and Europe, with cross-disciplinary links to climate policy, disaster management, and smart monitoring. He contributes to operational drought monitoring and hyperresolution hydrological models under the EU Destination Earth initiative and German Drought Monitor projects.