Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus

Professor for Physical Geography/Hydrology

Research Areas

  • critical zone science
  • catchment and process hydrology
  • numerical modeling
  • isotope methods
  • ecohydrology
  • regional focus: Eifel/Ardennes, Southwestern German Uplands, USA (Northwest, Southeast), Canada (Rocky Mountains), Oceania

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Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus

3.009

Meckenheimer Allee 172

53115 Bonn

Mailing address:

Meckenheimer Allee 166

53115 Bonn

Teaching

An overview of current and past courses can be found under teaching.

Office hours are held on Wednesdays from 8:30-10 am. Please register in advance by mail during the semester break. During the lecture period, please sign the list at the entrance to Hydrology. (Meckenheimer Allee 172; 3rd floor on the left under the stairs).


CV

  • 2018: Autoristation à Diriger des Recherches, University of Luxembourg
  • 2011: PhD, Technische Universität München
  • 2006: Diploma Hydrology with minors in Meteorology, Soil science, Physics, and Chemistry, Universität Freiburg
  • 2013-2021: Senior Scientist, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2012-2013: Postdoc, University of Saskatchewan, Kanada
  • 2011-2012: Postdoc, Oregon State University, USA
  • Associate Editor Ecohydrology (Wiley)  since 2018
  • EGU Officer for the Organisation of Outstanding Student Presentations in the Hydrological Science Division (2015-2018)
  • Peer Reviewer for about 20 journals in water and environmental science and geography
  • Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the Austrian Science Fund; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Germany and the National Environmental Research Council, UK
  • Conference/session organizer for EGU, AGU, CGU and the Gordon Research conferences

Projects/third party funding

AGUA: Assessing Global Change impacts on streamflow dynamics using distributed hydrological modelling in a data-scarce tropical watershed in West Africa

Duration:

from 2024

Principle Investigator:

Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus

Funder:

Argelander Funding for doctoral students from the Global South


Hydro-Laws: Landscape Drivers of Water Sources and Flowpaths in Subtropical Catchment

Duration:

from 2023

Principle Investigator:

Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus

Funder:

Argelander Funding for doctoral students from the Global South


ROODY: Root dynamics under varying water and nutrient supply

Duration:

2019-2021

Principle Investigator:

PI Dr. Stan Schymanski (LIST)

Co-PI Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus

Funder:

Luxembourg National Research Fund


EFFECT: Vegetation effects on catchment travel times: Integration of ecohydrological separation in the Storage Selection (SAS) function framework

Duration:

2019 - 2022

Principle Investigator:

Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus

Funder:

Luxembourg National Research Fund


Awards

Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award

Year:

2022

Awarded for:

Benettin, P., Rodriguez, N. B., Sprenger, M., Kim, M., Klaus, J., Harman, C. J., et al. (2022): Transit time estimation in catchments: Recent developments and future directions. Water Resources Research, 58, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033096


Malcom G. Anderson Award

Year:

2021

Awarded for:

Outstanding Paper of the Year in Hydrological Processes


Luxembourg National Research Fund Award

Year:

2020

Awarded for:

Outstanding Scientific Publication

Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award

Year:

2019

Awarded for:

Rodriguez, N.B., Klaus, J. (2019): Catchment travel times from composite StorAge Selection functions representing the superposition of streamflow generation processes. Water Resources Research, 55, 9292-9314.


Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award

Year:

2018

Awarded for:

Klaus, J., Jackson, C.R. (2018): Interflow Is Not Binary: a Continuous Shallow Perched Layer Does Not Imply Continuous Connectivity. Water Resources Research, 54, 3988–4008.



Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

A list of peer-reviewed ISI ranked articles can be downloaded here.

An overview of all publications can be found on Google Scholar.

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