Günter Blöschl

Prof. Blöschl is Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Director of the Centre for Water Resource Systems of the Vienna University of Technology as well as Chair of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems.

Research Interests:

• Hydrological simulation and modelling, runoff models, spatially distributed hydrological models and stochastic methods.
• Catchment hydrology including scale issues, flow and transport processes, floods and droughts, soil moisture, snow, and hydrological measurements.
• Water resources management: risk analysis, flood forecasting, uncertainty assessment, climate change impacts, hydrologic change, and socio-hydrology.
• Regional estimation, predictions in ungauged basins, geostatistical methods and Geographic Information Systems.

Günter Blöschl has published around 300 scientific articles in the area of hydrology and water resources. 150 of these articles appeared in international peer reviewed journals listed in the ISI citation index. His publications have been cited more than 5000 times as per the ISI data base, and his H-index is 42.