Rainer Helmig#

Membership Number:6076
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):https://www.iws.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Helmig/
ORCID:0000-0003-2601-5377


Present and Previous Positions
  • 2022,2 - 12 Guest Professor, Hasselt University (Belgium)
  • Since 2021 Research Professor, University of Stuttgart
  • 2019 - 2022 Adjunct Professor, University of Bergen (Norway)
  • 2019,05 - 07 Guest Professor, Utrecht University/Darcy Center (Netherlands)
  • 2012,04 - 07 NWO-von Humboldt-Foundation Guest Professor, Utrecht University (Netherlands)
  • 2006,03 - 05 Guest Professor, University of Bergen (Norway)
  • 2005,07 - 08 Guest Researcher, Shandong University (China)
  • Since 2000 Full Professor, Director, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart
  • 1998 - 2000 Full Professor, Institute of Computer Applications in Civil Engineering, TU Braunschweig
  • 1997 - 1998 Acting Professor, TU Brauchschweig
  • 1993 - 1997 Research Assistant, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Stuttgart
  • 1991,03 - 10 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley
  • 1988 - 1992 Research Assistant, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, University of Hannover

Fields of Scholarship
  • Physical and mathematical modeling of multi-phase processes
  • Groundwater hydrology
  • Modeling of mass- and heat-flux processes across the land/atmosphere interface
  • Analysis of coupled processes between the unsaturated zone and the atmosphere
  • Multi-phase flow in porous media
  • Coupling hydrosystem compartments and complex flow and transport processes
  • Numerical modeling

Honours and Awards
  • 2022 Honorary Doctoral Degree, Heriot-Watt University
  • 2021 Research Professor, University of Stuttgart
  • 2020 AGU Fellow 2020, American Geophysical Union
  • 2019 - 2022 Magne Espedal Honorary Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway
  • 2019 Honorary Lifetime Membership Award, International Socieety for Porous Media (InterPore)
  • Since 2017 Elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering
  • 2015 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer, National Groundwater Association (NGWA)
  • 2013 InterPore-Rosette, International Society for Porous Media (InterPore)
  • 2013 Shell Lecture 2013, Rice University Houston, USA
  • 2012 NOW-von Humboldt Stiftung award
  • Since 2010 Elected member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities
  • 1995 Dresden Prize for Groundwater Research

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