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Dr. Alireza Arab
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Dr. Alireza Arab
Stellenausschreibung / Available positions:
(aktualisiert am12. September 2025)
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Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (m/w/d) - (Ausschreibungskennziffer XXX/2025)
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Latest Publications
2026
A. Arab, T. Scheytt, T. Nagel, R. Taherdangkoo, (2026), Physics-informed neural network surrogate for reactive nitrate transport in groundwater. Advances in Water Resources, 213, 105305.
Arab, A., Oppelt, L., Chen, C., Wiedener, R., Späker, C., Schenker, F., Lotter, T., Schneider, T., Wunderlich, T., Grab, T., Nagel, T., Scheytt, T. (2026). Underground thermal energy storage in mines: Field scale heating-cooling cycles and performance at the Reiche Zeche underground mine, Journal of Energy Storage,163, 122087.
Ma, Q., Ge, W., Arab, A., Butscher, C., Taherdangkoo, R. (2026). Explainable machine learning with ensemble-based uncertainty quantification for groundwater quality indices in the Ganfu Plain, China. Environmental Earth Sciences 85, 196.
Prajapat, V., Scheytt, T., & Raychoudhury, T. (2026). Assessment of groundwater quality around marble slurry dumping sites at Kishangarh in Rajasthan: evaluation of possible anthropogenic impacts. Journal of Earth System Science, 135(2), 52.
Pedrosa, L., Engelmann, C., Binder, M., Michael, S., Zingelmann, M., & Scheytt, T. (2026). Numerical study of water content distribution and controlling factors in and beneath a railway embankment. Grundwasser.
2025
Petrova, E., Selzer, P., Kranz, S., Zeilfelder, S., Hebig, K. H., Machida, I., Marui, A., Blöcher, G., & Scheytt, T. (2025). Surrogate-model-based calibration of effective transport parameters from push-pull tests in the Horonobe aquifer (Japan). Geothermics, 133, Article 103449.
Binder, M., Händel, F., Engelmann, C., Steiner, B., Hasler, A. J., García-Gil, A., & Epting, J. (2025). The subsurface urban heat island of Basel City: More than a decade of spatiotemporal high-resolution monitoring and modelling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 383(2308), Article 20240577.
Dibyanshu, D., & Scheytt, T. (2025). Emerging contaminants: Assessing the release of pharmaceuticals via managed aquifer recharge. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 32(24), 14452–14464.
Dibyanshu, D., Kern, M., & Scheytt, T. (2024). Trace compounds in the urban water cycle in the Freiberg region, Germany. Frontiers in Water, 6, Article 1335766.
Stemmle, R., Arab, A., Bauer, S., Beyer, C., Blöcher, G., Bossennec, C., Dörnbrack, M., Hahn, F., Jaeger, P., Kranz, S., Mauerberger, A., Nordheim, J. N., Ohagen, M., Petrova, E., Regenspurg, S., Rettenmaier, D., Saadat, A., Sass, I., Scheytt, T., ... Blum, P. (2025). Current research on aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) in Germany. Grundwasser, 30, 107–124.
Serbe, R., Schiperski, F., Stelmaszyk, L., Stange, C., Tiehm, A., & Scheytt, T. (2025). Long-distance transport of bacteriophages MS2 and phiX174 in karst aquifers. Science of the Total Environment, 973, Article 179111.
Nagel, T., Rühaak, W., Amann, F., Bracke, G., Buske, S., Kowalski, J., ... & Kolditz, O. (2025). Deep geological disposal: Editorial to the topical collection. Environmental Earth Sciences, 84(3), 78.
Knöll, P., Schiperski, F., Roesrath, A., & Scheytt, T. (2025). Effects of model complexity on karst catchment runoff modeling for flood warning systems. Journal of Hydrology X, 26, Article 100194.
2024
Tumwet, F. C., Richter, A., Kleint, T., & Scheytt, T. (2024). Vertical movement of microplastics by roots of wheat plant (Triticum aestivum) and the plant response in sandy soil. Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 4, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-024-00092-8
Chen, C., Binder, M., Oppelt, L., Hu, Y., Engelmann, C., Arab, A., Xu, W., Scheytt, T., & Nagel, T. (2024). Modeling of heat and solute transport in a fracture-matrix mine thermal energy storage system and energy storage performance evaluation. Journal of Hydrology, 636, Article 131335.
Blöcher, G., Regenspurg, S., Kranz, S., Lipus, M., Pei, L., Norden, B., Reinsch, T., Henninges, J., Siemon, R., Orenczuk, D., Zeilfelder, S., Scheytt, T., & Saadat, A. (2024). Best practices for characterization of High Temperature-Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (HT-ATES) potential using well tests in Berlin (Germany) as an example. Geothermics, 116, Article 102830.
Mejia, N., Scheytt, T. J., & Murillo, M. (2024). Hydrogeological characterization and utilization of the Siguatepeque aquifer, Honduras. Hydrogeology Journal, 32(2), 557–575.
2023
Rojas-Gómez, K. L., Binder, M., Walther, M., & Engelmann, C. (2023). A parsimonious approach to predict regions affected by sewer-borne contaminants in urban aquifers. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195, Article 1517.
Tumwet, F. C., & Scheytt, T. (2023). Plastic pollution and the need for responsible plastic consumption and waste management. In Global challenges for a sustainable society (pp. 439–446). Springer.
Sidiqi, M., Kasiviswanathan, K. S., Scheytt, T., & Devaraj, S. (2023). Assessment of meteorological drought under the climate change in the Kabul River Basin, Afghanistan. Atmosphere, 14(3), 570.
Hartmann, C., Uhlmann, W., & Scheytt, T. (2023). Retention potential of a drained wetland in the Lusatian lignite mining district, Briesener Niedermoor, Germany, Europe. Environmental Earth Sciences, 82, Article 72.
2022
Major ions, trace elements and evidence of groundwater contamination in Hanoi, Vietnam, Environmental Earth Sciences, (23 May 2022)
Effect of fragmentation on the transport of polyvinyl chloride and low-density polyethylene in saturated quartz sand, Science of The Total Environment (25 August 2022)
Determining the impact of flow velocities on reactive processes associated with Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2, Water Science & Technology (01 January 2022)
2021
Biological and Physical Clogging in Infiltration Wells: Effects of Well Diameter and Gravel Pack, Groundwater (09 April 2021)
Single‐Rate Dual‐Domain Mass Transfer Model: Elucidating Temperature Effects, Water Resources Research (09 March 2021)
Reactive-transport modelling of Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2 passage through water saturated sediment columns, Journal of Hazardous Materials (03 February 2021)
2020
Origin of groundwater in Hanoi, Vietnam, revealed by environmental isotopes, Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies (07 July 2020)
Lagged rejuvenation of groundwater indicates internal flow structures and hydrological connectivity, Hydrological Processes (29 March 2020)
Using radar-based quantitative precipitation data with coupled soil- and groundwater balance models for stream flow simulation in a karst area, Journal of Hydrology (26 March 2020)
Predicting Nutrient Incontinence in the Anthropocene at Watershed Scales in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Environmental Sciences (14 January 2020)
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33rd PhD Conference of Hydrogeology and related fields
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