معرفی
Lukas Riedel is a Researcher at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich, affiliated with the Weather and Climate Risk Group under Prof. David N. Bresch and collaborating with MeteoSwiss. His research focuses on climate risk modeling, particularly impact estimation of hydrometeorological events using the CLIMADA platform in the Weather4UN project. He specializes in fluvial flood inundation modeling, socio-economic impact assessments, and open-source software development for disaster risk reduction.
Education: Dr. Riedel holds a Physics degree from Heidelberg University and a PhD in numerical modeling and data assimilation of soil water flow from the Institute of Environmental Physics. His postdoctoral work included developing elasticity models for biological cells at the 'Structures' Cluster of Excellence, collaborating with the Physics of Complex Biosystems and Scientific Computing groups.
Research Interests: His work bridges environmental physics and computational science, with contributions to software frameworks like DORiE (soil water flow solver) and Utopia (modeling complex systems). He emphasizes open data utilization, such as OpenStreetMap integration for climate risk assessments, and anticipatory humanitarian action through impact-based forecasting.
Key Projects: Co-developed the globally consistent river flood impact model using open data, and advanced CLIMADA’s impact function calibration module. His research addresses flood hazard mapping, tropical cyclone displacement forecasting, and uncertainty quantification in climate risk models.
Awards: None explicitly mentioned.
Advising & Grants: No formal advisees listed, but contributes to collaborative projects like Weather4UN, which integrates multi-stakeholder decision-making for humanitarian response.
Labs/Teams: Core member of the Weather and Climate Risk Group at ETH Zurich, and previously part of the 'Structures' Cluster of Excellence and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR).
