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David Kneis (Geo-ecologist, Dr.)

This page extends my official home page at TU Dresden Institute of Hydrobiology.

Contact

Email firstname.lastname@tu-dresden.de
Phone +49 351 463 32 32 9
Visiting address 01062 Dresden, Zellescher Weg 40 ("Drudebau"), Room 31 (1st floor)

Research and publications

I'm working at the interface of hydrology, ecology, and microbiology. My focus is on process-based modeling and data analysis but I like field work and experiments as well. My research topics include:

A recent list of publications can be found on this google scholar page or this ORCID page.

Teaching

Hacking limnology 2024 workshop Close Open
Aquatic ecology (Bachelor MBBT, 2024) Close Open
Lake ecology field course (Master Hydrobiology, MHB01, 2024) Close Open
System analysis (Master Hydrobiology, MHB03a, 2023/24) Close Open
16S rRNA amplicon sequence analysis (Master Hydrobiology, MHyb02; Bachelor MBBT, 2023) Close Open
Loads, balances, and the CFSTR (Master Hydrobiology, MHyb11, 2022) Close Open
Data management (Master Hydrobiology, MHyb11, 2020 and 2022) Close Open

Short version (recommended)

Long version (to be updated)

Crash course in R (ANSWER ITN, Dresden, 2016); not up-to-date Close Open
Introduction to water quality modeling (in German, Uni Potsdam, 2014) Close Open
Ordinary differential equations (in German, Uni Potsdam, 2014) Close Open

Software

R-package rodeo Facilitates the implementation of models built on ODE and 1-dimensional PDE
R-package tabular SQL-like constrainst for poor man's data bases
ECHSE framework C++ based framework for (eco)-hydrological modeling

You can find examples of current eco-hydrological models on this website maintained together with my colleage Thomas Petzoldt.

CV

since 2014 Scientist at the Institute of Hydrobiology, TU Dresden, Germany
2016-2020 Scientist at the Environmental Research Center - UFZ, Dept. of River Ecology, Magdeburg, Germany (Group of Markus Weitere)
2010-2014 Scientist at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
2012/2013 Visiting scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India (Group of R. Singh)
2007-2010 Visiting scientist at the flood forecasting center of Saxony (Dresden, Germany)
2007 PhD in Geoecology (download thesis)
2002-2006 PhD Student, University of Potsdam (Group of Axel Bronstert)
1997-2002 Studies of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany