Staff
Leonie Pies
Building
C 4,
Room
2.14 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Function and Responsibilities:
PhD Student in the Hydrology Section (Working Group on Flood Risk and Climate Adaptation)Research Interests:
- Flood adaptation and limits to adaptation
- Flood damage modeling
- Human-environment interaction with focus on hydrological systems
Career:
05/2025 - 12/2025 Student Research Assistant at Hydrotec (Aachen, Germany)
- Runoff simulations
- Hydrological modelling
11/2024 - 03/2025 Intern at Convention on Migratory Species (United Nations Environment Programme)
- Preparations for COP15
- Policy reviews, task force coordination
05/2024 - 09/2024 Student Assistant at Department of Earth Sciences (University of Amsterdam)
- Laboratory analyses for a project on nitrogen pollution in the Netherlands
03/2023 - 09/2023 Student Assistant at Department of Geography (University of Bonn)
- Groundwater - Surfacewater interactions
- Salt-Tracer
Education:
2023 - 2026: Earth System Sciences M. Sc. (University of Amsterdam)
2019 - 2023: Geography B. Sc.(University of Bonn)