Who we are...

The HI-CONN working group is led by Ronald Pöppl. John Edward Perez is doing his PhD at the Department of Geography and Regional Research. He is part of the sub-working group since October 2020. Marina Refatti Fagundes, Bruno Henrique Abatti (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), Simona Koreňová (Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia) and Katarina Pavlek (University of Zagreb, Croatia) are external PhD students. Sarah Diem and Helinä Pauliina Poutamo are currently writing their master theses in our working group.

Senior Lecturer
Leader of the sub-working group

  • Fluvial Geomorphology (Focus: Human Impact)
  • Connectivity in river (catchment) systems (Focus: Human Impact)
  • Sustainable use of resources (Foci: soil, water, climate change contexts)
  • River and catchment management (Foci: Nature Based Solutions, Aquatic Ecology)
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Natural Hazards
  • Geoecology

PhD student

  • Dissertation within the i-CONN-project
  • Soil erosion and connectivity research
  • Numerical modelling
  • Remote sensing
  • Network analysis

PhD student

  • MASC project
  • Fieldwork and analyzing water-sediment-climate monitoring stations in river catchments
  • Dating microplastics qualitatively and quantitatively using isotopic methods of Ld, Pu, Ce and sedimentary core analysis
  • Incorporating data into GIS-based connectivity model of river basins
  • Anthropogenic impact analysis

Master student

  • Water quality in rivers
  • Soil erosion
  • Suspended sediment transport in rivers

PhD student

  • Sediment connectivity in small mountain catchments
  • Field work
  • Monitoring

PhD student

  • Sediment connectivity in small mountain catchments
  • Field work
  • Monitoring

PhD student

  • Water and sediment connectivity in Anthropocene rivers
  • Hydrometeorological extremes
  • Critical points

Doktorandin

  • Wasser- und Sedimentkonnektivität in Flüssen
  • Fluviale Geomorphologie
  • Remote sensing
  • River monitoring

Master student

  • Sediment connectivity in streams
  • Large wood in streams
  • Fluvial geomorphology

Kenta Koyanagi, MSc

kenta.koyanagi@student.unibz.it

PhD student

  • Soil erosion in mountain environments
  • Forest disturbance