ECMWF

I joined the Predictability and Diagnostics Section at ECMWF in October 2006. I am currently working as a Scientist on the SAFER (Service Applications For Emergency Response) and EFAS (European Flood Alert System) project (EC funded) in flood forecasting and modeling. Within these projects I manage a research initiative of international scientists in evaluating the results of numerical weather predictions as input into flood forecast systems. In particular I am developing a river routing scheme for the ECMWF land surface model.

My expertise in flood forecasting and hydrological modeling is documented with over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals, as peer reviewed comments and edited volumes. Many of them in journals with high impact factors such as Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology, Water Resources Research, International Journal of Climatology. I have collaborated on multiple successful external research funding applications. I have been offered a NERC fellowship and recently been awarded to major contracts by the Joint Research Centre (EC) and the European Commission FP7 program.

I am an editor of the international journal ‘Hydrology and Earth System Sciences’. I am member of the HEPEX Verification core organizing group; the UNESCO FRIEND Program on floods; HEPEX (Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment, WMO); TIGGE (THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble, WMO) application group; THEPS (THORPEX/HEPEX Hydrologic Applications). I am further invloved in a young scientist network breaching teh gap between meterological and hydrological science (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). I was member of the UK IAHR council and the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium Scientific Advisory Board of RPA9, Risk and Uncertainty.

I have significant experience with EC funding, by being employed on 4 different research grants and successfully acquiring 2 EC research grants. I have further served as an evaluator of EC research grants (FP6 & 7) as well as evaluating grants for NERC (Standard Research Grant), Ministère de la Culture, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (Luxembourg), International Institute of Applied System Analysis (Austria).

EDUCATION

Ph.D.

Lancaster University, Environmental Sciences, UK. Awarded July 2004. Thesis: Uncertainty in flood inundation modeling. Supervisor: Prof Keith Beven

M.Sc.

Lancaster University, Environmental Sciences, UK. Awarded October 2000 with distinction. Dissertation: Uncertainty in flood inundation modeling on the River Morava (Czech Republic)

CLTHE

Certificate for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (attendance), Lancaster University, July 2003

Pre-Diploma

Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Geology Department, Germany, Awarded October 1998 Dissertation: Comparison of overland flow before and after sealing of an industrial area (Mark 1.0 equivalent to a 1 st class degree)

Professional Experience

2010

Scientist on the ECEarth Project , Seasonal Forecasting Group, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK

2008-2010

Consultant on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project: Europeanizing flood forecasting of risk and science in the EU, EU/702283211

2009

Guest Lecturer (Master course), Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, Uk

2009-

Guest Lecturer (Master courses), Department of Geography, King's College London, UK

2009-2010

Scientist on the European Flood Alert System Project (JRC funding), Predictability and Diagnostics Group, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK

2009-2010

Scientist on the SAFER Project (EC FP7 funding), Predictability and Diagnostics Group, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK

2006-2008

Scientist on the PREVIEW Project (EC FP6 funding), Predictability and Diagnostics Group, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK

2004-2006

Post-doctoral research assistant on the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium, Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Lancaster

2004

Visiting Scientist, European Flood Alert System, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Weather Driven Natural Hazards Action, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Varese, Italy

2003-2004

Postdoctoral researcher, European Flood Alert System, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Weather Driven Natural Hazards Action, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Varese, Italy.

2000

Visiting Scientist at TG Masaryk Water Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

1998

Research Assistant, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1998

Trainee, Environmental consultancy (Intechnica GmbH), Nuremberg, Germany

1997

Trainee, Landratsamt Nürnberger Land, Lauf, Germany

1995-1996

Civil Servant (compulsory), Diakonie Station, Lauf, Germany

Florian Pappenberger

EDUCATION

Professional Experience