Dr. Sascha Oswald
Numerical modelling of reactive transport, laboratory visualisation experiments, risk and performance assessment.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Hydrogeology
UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle
Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4
D- 06120 Halle/Saale
Germany
Telephone: +49 345 5585410
Fax: +49 345 5585559
email : sascha.oswald@ufz.de
Biography
- PhD, Variable-density flow in porous media, Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management IHW, ETH Zurich
Sascha's original background is in physics and environmental physics. After studying in Germany and Switzerland he became a consultant in the group for Groundwater Protection and Waste Disposal at Colenco Power Eng. in Switzerland. In 2001 he moved to the University of Sheffield as a research fellow for numerical modelling with the GPRG before moving back to Switzerland to join the Soil Protection Group, at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITÖ), ETH Zurich. Since 2004 Sascha has worked on natural attenuation modelling and imaging experiments in the department of Hydrogeology at the Environmental Research Centre UFZ, Leipzig-Halle, Germany.
Current research interests
- Numerical modelling of reactive transport and density-dependent transport in groundwater and soil
- Verification of numerical codes by comparison with laboratory experiments and analytical solutions
- Laboratory visualisation experiments of transport problems
- Use of new numerical methods like adaptive grids or schemes with low numerical dispersion
- Risk and performance assessment for pollution problems, especially dealing with uncertainties
- Assessment of non-asymptotic dispersion and multiple porosity behaviour
Professional Associations
- Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management IHW at ETH Zurich, see my personal webpage at the groundwater group and the Saltpool and and the Fingering webpages.
- Scientific Computing at the IWR, bioremediation modelling by W. Schaefer & P. Bastian, and d3f by K. Johannsen.
- Chunmiao Zheng at the University of Alabama, USA.
- Uli Mayer at the UBC Vancouver, Canada.
Publications
Please click on the links to the right of this page to see Sascha's current CV, publications list and conferences attended.