Team

Field of research

• Saturated/unsaturated flow and reactive transport modeling
• Hydrological modeling
• Field and laboratory experiments
• Interface groundwater-soil-atmosphere

Teaching

• Introduction to groundwater modeling (lecture)
• Advanced groundwater modeling (lecture)
• Unsaturated zone processes/groundwater recharge (lecture)
• Hydrogeology 1 (exercise)

Doctoral student supervision

• José Manuel Zolezzi López Link
• Selina Hillmann Link
• Matthias Bockstiegel Link
• Juan Carlos Richard Cerda Link
• Marcel Horovitz Link
• Alumni: Rike Becker, Sahand Farhang Darehshouri

Academic career

• Since 04/2021 Research Group Leader (Athene Young Investigator Programme) at Technical University Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Hydrogeology Group
• Since 02/2016 Postdoctoral researcher at Technical University Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Hydrogeology Group
• 11/2011 to 01/2016 Doctoral student at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department: Catchment Hydrology - Doctoral thesis title: “Experimental and numerical studies on the water balance of the Upper Mega Aquifer system, Arabian Peninsula”
• 10/2005 to 10/2011 Student at Technical University Freiberg, Studies: Geoecology - Diploma thesis title: “Groundwater recharge estimation using the hydrological model J2000g in the Zarqa River Catchment, NW-Jordan”

Awards

• Selected as Athene Young Investigator in 2021 Link
• Award for outstanding scientific achievements in 2017 from „Die Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e.V."
• Dresdner Grundwasserforschungspreis 2017 der Stiftung zur Förderung der “Wissenschaftlichen Schule Zunker-Busch-Luckner”
• Summa cum laude for the PhD Thesis
• HIGRADE presentation award at the HIGRADE Spring Conference 2014

Academic services

• Leading guest editor of the Special Issue “Hydrogeology of Arid Environments” of the Hydrogeology Journal (01/2024
• Associated editor of Hydrogeology Journal (since 01/2021)
• Speaker of the working group „Hydrogeologie arider Gebiete“ of the FH-DGGV
• Elected representative of the scientific staff in the institute administration (Direktorium) and in various temporary commissions at the Institute of Applied Geosciences, TU Darmstadt
• Reviewer for scientific journals such as Applied Geochemistry, Australian Journal of Water Resources, Contaminant Hydrology, Environmental Earth Sciences, Environmental Research Letters, Geocarto International, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Grundwasser, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Hydrogeology Journal, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Hydrology Research, Journal of Great Lakes Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, Limnology and Oceanography, Water Research, Water Resources Research, World Development
• Memberships: FH-DGGV (Fachsektion Hydrogeologie in der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft-Geologischen Vereinigung e.V.); IAH (International Association of Hydrogeologists); EGU (European Geosciences Union); MOXXI working group (Measurements & Observations in the 21st Century) of the IAHS International Association of Hydrological Sciences); Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e.V.; Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)

Publications

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephan_Schulz3

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-7690

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57189596443

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AUHdFvMAAAAJ&hl=de