Dr Dan Power
Job: Postdoctoral Researcher
Employer: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
PhD Thesis: Investigating opportunities for global scale soil moisture studies using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensors
PhD Supervisors: Dr Rafael Rosolem and Dr Miguel Rico-Ramirez
Dan was a PhD research student on the WISE CDT programme between 2018-2023 and was based at the University of Bristol. He successfully defended his PhD thesis – entitled ‘Investigating opportunities for global scale soil moisture studies using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensors’ – on 12th December 2023.
Dan is currently a Postgraduate Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany.
Academic Background
Dan graduated in 2017 from the University of Birmingham with an MSc in River Environments and their Management. His dissertation was entitled ‘Climate Change in the Himalayas: Using a conceptual model to understand future impacts on Hydrological Drought in highly glaciated catchments.’ Dan also has a BSc in Environmental Conservation from Sheffield Hallam University.
Between his degrees, Dan spent three years travelling in Europe, South East Asia, India, Nepal and Australia. This experience allowed Dan to encounter different people and cultures, and has ultimately lead him to pursue a career in the Geosciences field, with a particular interest in hydrology.
Previous Work Experience
Upon returning from travelling, Dan has worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Birmingham comparing catchment-scale observations and global-scale models in their ability to identify human influence on drought. Just prior to joining the WISE CDT PhD Programme, he worked as a Data Quality Analyst at Bristol Water using data from the PR19 project.
Research Interests
- Hydrological modelling
- Climate change
- Big Data Analytics
- Global Hydrological Models.
