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Matthias Sprenger

Earth Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5266

msprenger@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

Matthias Sprenger is an Earth Research Scientist (Hydrology) working on the Watershed Function SFA at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Sprenger received his PhD at the Graduate School “Environment, Society and Global Change” of the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany in 2015. Before joining the LBNL in summer 2020, he gained postdoctoral experience at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.

His research focuses on better understanding how water moves in the critical zone, the Earth’s thin layer spanning from the canopy to the groundwater. He uses stable isotopes of water to assess the partitioning of rainfall and snowmelt into fluxes back into the atmosphere from evaporation and transpiration and fluxes sustaining groundwater recharge and stream waters.

      

     

 

Education

  • PhD in Hydrology, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2015
  • M. Sc. BioGeosciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany, 2011
  • EU-ERASMUS exchange student in Environmental and Resource Management, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2009
  • B. Sc. in Geoecology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, 2008

Experience

  • Earth Scientist (Hydrology), Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley USA, 2020
  • Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, 2018-2020
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Surface Hydrology and Erosion Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, 2018-2020
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chair of Hydrology, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2018
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northern River Institute, School of Geoscience, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2015-2018
  • Research Associate, Chair of Hydrology, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2012-2015

Awards

  • EGU Early Career Scientist's Travel Support, 2020
  • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Travel Award, 2019
  • Two-year Research Fellowship awarded by German Research Foundation (DFG), Project Number 397306994, 2018
  • Research proposal awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence by the European Commission, 2018
  • German Hydrological Society (DHG) Fieldwork Scholarship, 2018
  • British Hydrological Society Travel Award, 2018
  • SAGES Pools Engagement in European Research, 2017
  • EGU Early Career Scientist's Travel Support, 2017
  • Travel Award SAGES, 2016
  • Travel Award "Förderverein Hydrologie“ at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2015
  • Travel Award Graduate School “Environment, Society and Global Change”, 2015
  • DAAD-RISE Scholarship, 2014
  • EGU Early Career Scientist's Travel Support, 2014
  • Travel Award Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg im Breisgau, 2013
  • Fahnenberg-Scholarship of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, 2013
  • EGU Early Career Scientist's Travel Support, 2013
  • PROMOS-Grant of DAAD, 2011
  • ERASMUS-Grant of DAAD, 2008-2009
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