Lucas Menzel Curriculum Vitae

Lucas Menzel first studied geology at the University of Würzburg (Germany). He graduated with a diploma (equivalent to a M.Sc.) in geography/hydrology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland (in 1996). His Ph.D. thesis is on the simulation of evapotranspiration at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface. He then continued his work at ETH as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on the water and energy balance of a high mountain valley and was instrumental in the creation of the evaporation map for the Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland. He then joined the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). During this time, he devoted himself intensively to hydrological modelling, especially the simulation of floods under different climatic boundary conditions and under consideration of climate change. During this time, he also led a project to quantify the water resources of the Middle East under changing climatic conditions. After working at PIK for several years, he was with the University of Kassel, where he was an Assistant Professor with the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), leading the further development of the global water model WaterGAP. Since 2009, he has been Full Professor in Hydrology and Climatology with Heidelberg University, Germany. In Heidelberg, he works on numerous projects dealing with the measurement and simulation of the water balance and its components in different ecotones and climatic zones of the earth.