Johannes Scherer
PhD Student
Research Areas
Catchment hydrology
Nutrient modelling (wetlands, streams and groundwater)
Water quality
Remote sensing and LULC
Machine Learning
New Interests
Isotope hydrology (Phd-project)
Ecohydrology
Regional Focus
Germany
Canada
Johannes Scherer
3.014
Meckenheimer Allee 176
53115 Bonn
Curriculum Vitae
2025 – present: Doctoral Research fellow at the University of Bonn (research group Hydrology, Prof. Julian Klaus). Project: Unveiling drivers of catchment water balance partitioning from stable water isotopes, hydrological modelling, and machine learning across landscapes.
2023 – 2025: Nutrient modelling as a research fellow at Research Center Jülich’s “Institute of Bio- and Geosciences Agrosphere (IBG-3)” within the research group “Modelling and management of catchments”.
2019 - 2023: Development and organization of data science training courses as a student assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Knowledge Discovery department, Sankt Augustin.
2019 – 2023: Master of science, Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Thesis: Comparative Analysis of In-Stream Nitrate Behaviour During Low-Flow Conditions Across Landscapes.
2015 – 2019: Bachelor of science, Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Thesis: Analysis of Diffuse Nitrogen Inputs into Small Streams in North Rhine-Westphalia – Development of an Empirical Model.
Projects
Unveiling Drivers of Catchment Water Balance Partitioning from Stable Water Isotopes, hydrological modeling, and Machine Learning across landscapes
Duration:
2025 - 2028
Lead:
Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus
Funding:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)