Education:
03/2019 – 06/2023 | Joint PhD degree in Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | Thesis: Quantifying the impact of climate variability and change on groundwater
10/2015 – 08/2018 | Master degree in Environmental Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany | Thesis: Electrical resistivity tomography and CMD-Explorer applications to investigate a waste deposit in Longerich, Cologne
09/2012 – 01/2013 | Exchange semester in the Department of Biological Science and Technology, I-Shou University, Taiwan
09/2011 – 06/2015 | Bachelor degree in Ecology, Ocean University of China
Professional Career:
10/2023 – today | Postdoc at University of Bern, Switzerland, and FAU, Germany | Research project: Sensitivity of high Alpine geosystems to climate change since c. 1850 (SEHAG), Hydrology Unit
Key publications:
1) Fan X., Peterson T., Henley B., Arora M. (2023), Groundwater sensitivity to climate variations in Australia. Water Resources Research, 59, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035036.
2) Fan X., Goeppert N., Goldscheider, N. (2023), Quantifying the historic and future response of karst spring discharge to climate variability and change at a snow-influenced temperate catchment in central Europe. Hydrogeology Journal, 31, 2213–2229, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-023-02703-9.
