David Kneis (Geo-ecologist, Dr.)
This page extends my official home page at TU Dresden Institute of Hydrobiology.
Contact
| 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:
- Prevalence and spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment
- Lake and river water quality modeling
- Hydrological catchment modeling
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
- Introduction to system analysis
- Quick start with R
- The continuous flow stirred tank reactor
- Residence times
- First order processes
- Simultaneous ODE
- Code generation for ODE models
- Limitation and inhibition
- Advanced examples: Intro
- Advanced examples: Competition
- Advanced examples: Alternative steady states and hysteresis
- Advanced examples: Predation
- Advanced examples: Dam break
- Inverse modeling
16S rRNA amplicon sequence analysis (Master Hydrobiology, MHyb02; Bachelor MBBT, 2023) Close Open
- Course material (.zip archive) ! about 130 MB
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 |