Research Interest

Flood generation
Flood risk analysis
Hydrology of arid and semi-arid zones

Coordination Activities

Coordination of the Helmholtz Virtual Institute DEad SEa Research VEnue (DESERVE)
Coordination of the DESERVE Winter School in 2014 and 2016
Coordination of the EGU Topical Meeting ‘Floods and Climate’

Education & Employment

Since 03/2013	Research associate, IMK-TRO at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016	PhD in Hydrology, University of Potsdam, Germany *‘The role of soil moisture and weather patterns for flood occurrence and characteristics at the river basin scale’*
01/2010 – 09/2013	Research associate, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
2009	Diploma in Hydrology, University of Freiburg, Germany

Projects
Title	Contact
DESERVE - The Virtual Institute "DEad SEa Research VEnue"	Prof. Dr. Ch. Kottmeier, Dr. U. Corsmeier, Dr. M. Nied, Dipl. Geoph. F. Lott, Dipl.-Met. J.Metzger.

EuFloLoss

Peer-reviewed Publications

Other Peer-reviewed Publications

Nied, M., Pardowitz, T., Nissen, K., Ulbrich, U., Hundecha, Y. and Merz, B. (2014)

On the relationship between hydro-meteorological patterns and flood types.

Journal of Hydrology 519(PD), 3249-3262. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169414008233

Merz, B., Aerts, J., Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., Baldi, M., Becker, A., Bichet, A., Blöschl, G., Bouwer, L.M., Brauer, A., Cioffi, F., Delgado, J.M., Gocht, M., Guzzetti, F., Harrigan, S., Hirschboeck, K., Kilsby, C., Kron, W., Kwon, H.H., Lall, U., Merz, R., Nissen, K., Salvatti, P., Swierczynski, T., Ulbrich, U., Viglione, A., Ward, P.J., Weiler, M., Wilhelm, B. and Nied, M. (2014)

Floods and climate: Emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management.

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 14(7), 1921-1942. www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/14/1921/2014/

Nied, M., Hundecha, Y. and Merz, B. (2013)

Flood-initiating catchment conditions: A spatio-temporal analysis of large-scale soil moisture patterns in the Elbe River basin.

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17(4), 1401-1414. www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/17/1401/2013/hess-17-1401-2013.html

Sheffer, N.A., Cohen, M., Morin, E., Grodek, T., Gimburg, A., Magal, E., Gvirtzman, H., Nied, M., Isele, D. and Frumkin, A. (2011)

Integrated cave drip monitoring for epikarst recharge estimation in a dry Mediterranean area, Sif Cave, Israel.

Hydrological Processes 25(18), 2837-2845. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.8046/abstract