How we are: The Department for Environmental Geosciences, University of Vienna is a highly motivated and international team carrying out research on groundwater modelling, pollutant dynamics and nanogeosciences.
Your project: Providing safe drinking water is one of the major challenges of this century. Apart from quantitative problems, groundwater contamination is a major environmental concern. Such inorganic, organic, or biological contamination can derive from various sources. Water suppliers might operate at very complex hydrogeological settings, including flow and chemical/water quality heterogeneities at all scales, varying river-aquifer interaction, and water works operations.
At such a setting you will apply the most recent inverse groundwater modeling techniques to identify and minimize model uncertainties and to better predict and guide water works operations (e.g., including temporal varying natural/anthropogenic tracers, stochastic modelling with HPC, rigorous uncertainty analysis). The ultimate goal is to inform a large water supplier how to provide the best possible water quality at very complex and time variant hydrogeological/chemical settings.