Dr. Max Steinhausen

• Since October 2022: Postdoctoral researcher at Hydrology and River Basin Management, Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources, Technische Universität Braunschweig

• 2021 – 2022: Research fellow for flood loss estimation at the Flood Hazard Research Centre (FHRC) of Middlesex University London

• 2017 – 2020: Doctoral researcher at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (GFZ) German Research Centre for Geosciences in the Hydrology section for the EU-Project “H2020 Insurance” and the Climate-KIC-Project “SaferPlaces”

• 2017: Research assistant at GFZ Potsdam in the Hydrology section

• 2014 – 2017 Teaching assistant at the Geography department of Free University Berlin for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

• Project coordination

• Flood risk, damage, and vulnerability modeling

• GIS-Applications

• Data interoperability

• Coding in R, Python and SQL

• Uncertainty quantification

• Supervision of bachelor and master theses

DIRECTED – DIsaster Resilience for Extreme ClimaTe Events providing interoperable Data, models, communication and governance

DIRECTED aspires to foster disaster-resilient European societies by:

• expanding our capabilities to communicate, utilise and exchange state-of-the-art data, information and knowledge between different actors

• boosting the integration, accessibility and interoperability of models

• facilitating knowledge sharing

• improving dialogue and cooperation encompassing all levels of actors based on enhanced community engagement and developing new governance and risk management strategies using a bottom-up, value-driven co-development approach

• Learn more under: directedproject.eu

• Steinhausen, M., Schröter, K., Lüdtke, S., Sairam ,N., Paprotny, D., Mentaschi, L., Alfieri L., Dottori F. & Kreibich, H. (2022). Drivers of flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe. Global Environmental Change 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102559

• Steinhausen, M., Lüdtke, S., Schröter, K., Figueiredo, R., & Kreibich, H. (2020). Das probabilistische Hochwasserschadensmodell für Wohngebäude – BN-FLEMOps. HW 64. 2020, H.4. https://doi.org/10.5675/HYWA_2020.4_2

• Steinhausen, M., Wagner, P. D., Narasimhan, B., & Waske, B. (2018). Combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for improved land use and land cover mapping of monsoon regions. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 73(August), 595–604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.08.011

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