Dr. Tobias Siegfried
Columbia University
918 S.W. Mudd Building
Mail Code 4711
5000 W. 120th St.
New York, NY 10027
Phone: +1.212.854.1695
Fax: +1.212.854.7081
skype: tobisiegfried
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Dr. Tobias Siegfried |
email: ts2392@columbia.edu
Phone: +1.212.854.1695 Fax: +1.212.854.7081 skype: tobisiegfried |
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Currently, Tobias Siegfried is a fellow at the Earth Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at SIPA, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in the City of New York. He investigates the problems of freshwater depletion and degradation in the context of demographic and economic development. His work is focused on regions where resources such as soil and water are scarce and where the implementation of efficient and sustainable management strategies is difficult due to inadequate economic and political as well as institutional environments. By coupling physical resource models with agent-based game theoretic, Siegfried investigates adequate place-specific institutional mechanisms that help to successfully address these issues. He uses methods from surface and groundwater flow and transport modeling, stochastic discrete multi-objective optimization as well as statistical learning etc.. At the moment, Siegfried's main work focuses on
> Upstream-/Downstream conflicts in the Aral Sea Basin, Syr Darya River.
> The current and future water challenge of India - Development of novel approaches to sustainable water resources development.
> Groundwater markets in India – Impacts on the environment and the welfare distribution of the rural population.
During his professional career he has worked on water supply problems in rural Botswana and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Furthermore, while working on his PhD he visited Tunisia and Libya on several occasions for fieldwork. Tobias Siegfried studied environmental physics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland where he got a Master of Science Degree. He went on to study International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he got another Master of Science degree. He carried out his PhD at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETHZ with Prof. Wolfgang Kinzelbach. Tobias Siegfried published his interdisciplinary scientific work in leading journals of the respective fields. He reviews papers and proposals sent to National Science Foundation, Water Resources Research, Computational Optimization and Applications and Journal of Hydrology.
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| Academic Qualifications |
| 06.2007-09.2007 | SIPA, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| 09.2006-09.2008 | Earth Institute, Columbia University | Earth Instiute Fellow |
| 10.2005-08.2006 | Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University |
Visiting Research Scientist (Prof. Upmanu Lall) |
| 5.2005 - 9.2005 | Center for Comparative and International Studies, International Relations, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich |
Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Prof. Thomas Bernauer) |
| 7.2004 - 4.2005 | Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich | Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Prof. Wolfgang Kinzelbach) |
| 06.07.2004 | Dissertation in Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich | PhD |
| 3.2000 – 7.2004 | Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich | Research Assistant (Prof. Wolfgang Kinzelbach) |
| 11.1998–11.1999 | London School of Economics and Political Science, London, MSC | Post-Graduate Study: History and Theory of International Relations |
| 10.1992– 9.1997 | Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, MSC | Graduate Studies, deepening in the field of Aquatic Physics |
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| Consulting Work |
| 2007 | UNDP, in collaboration with Lucas Beck, ETHZ. | Options for Water Resources Management in Darfur, Sudan |
| 2004 | ARMINES in collaboration with Ecole des Mines, Paris, France | Groundwater Modeling Expert, Arlit Water Supply, Niger |
| 2002, 2003 | Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
Groundwater Modeling Expert, Addis Ababa Water Supply Project, Stage III A Groundwater Phase II |
| 1997-1998 | Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich | Development of a sustainable water management practice in Botswana, Khurutse Area, Botswana |
| 1996 | Ernst Basler + Partner | Quantification and consequences of nitrate pollution in Switzerland |
| 1995-1996 | Ernst Basler + Partner | Environmental assessment report in the Lake Ohrid area (on behalf of the World Bank) |
| Scholarships and Awards |
| 2007 | Named a Revolutionary Mind for 2007 by Seed Magazine |
| 2006 | Earth Institute Researchers Award, USD 30'000 |
| 2006-2008 | Earth Institute Fellowship, Columbia University, New York |
| 2005 | Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 2004 | Nomination for ETH silver medal for an outstanding doctoral thesis |
| 1998 | ETH-Award and Medal for an outstanding diploma thesis |
| 1998 | Scholarship of the “Emil Boral-Stiftung für Postgraduierte aus Oesterreich und der Schweiz” |
| 1989 | Swiss Winner of a European Space Agency (ESA) competition on occasion of ESA’s 25th Birthday |
| Publications: Books |
| 2005 | Tobias Ulrich Siegfried, Optimal utilization of a non-renewable transboundary groundwater resource - Methodology, case study and policy implications, Schriftenreihe des Instituts fuer Hydromechanik und Wasserwirtschaft, Zuerich 2005, ISSN 1423-7997 (download pdf) |
| Publications: Peer-Reviewed Journals |
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2008 | Lall U., Heikkila T., Brown C., Siegfried T., Water in the 21st century: Some Aspects of a Global Resource and Environmental Challenge, Journal of International Affairs, accepted for publication; |
[2] |
2007 | Foshee J. R., Gosh A., Graham C., Murray W., Ruben-Salama C., Siegfried T., Thirsty for Change: Considering Water Privatization in Developing Nations, Consilience: Journal for Sustainable Development, accepted for publication; |
[3] |
2007 | Kwon, H., Khalil, A., Siegfried, T., Analysis of Extreme Summer Rainfall Using Climate Teleconnections and Typhoon Characteristics In South Korea, JAWRA, accepted for publication; |
[4] |
2007 | Balloumi, M., Siegfried, T., Matoussi, M., Kinzelbach, W., An efficiency comparison of two institutional types of farms, Agricultural Systems, submitted; |
[5] |
2006 | Bernauer, T. and Siegfried, T., On Cooperation, Compliance and Performance in International Water Management, Global Governance, accepted for publication; |
[6] |
2006 | Siegfried, T. and Bernauer, T., Estimating the performance of international regulatory regimes: Methodology and empirical application to international water management in the Naryn / Syr Darya Basin , Water Resour. Res., 43, W11406, doi:10.1029/2006WR005738; Russian translation: Тобиас Зигфрид и Томас Бернар, Оценка выполнения международной политики |
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2006 | Siegfried, T. and Brown, C., Game-theoretic Framework for Water Allocation Decisions using Stochastic Learning Methods, in preparation; |
[8] |
2006 | Siegfried, T., and W. Kinzelbach, A multiobjective discrete stochastic optimization approach to shared aquifer management: Methodology and application, Water Resour. Res., 42, W02402, doi:10.1029/2005WR004321; |
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2005 | Siegfried T., Kinzelbach W. Spatial Economic Aspects of Groundwater Management, Water Resources Research, in preparation; |
[10] |
2005 | Siegfried, T., Bleuler, S., Laumanns, M. Zitzler, E., Kinzelbach, W. Multi-Objective Groundwater Management Using Evolutionary Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, accepted for publication; |
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2005 | Zammouri M., Siegfried T., El Fahem T., Kriaa S., Kinzelbach W., Salination of Groundwater in the Nefzawa Oases (Tunisia): Results of a Regional–Scale Hydrogeologic Approach, Hydrogeology Journal, 2007, doi: 10.1007/s10040-007-0185-x; |
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2003 | Kinzelbach W., Bauer P., Siegfried T. And Brunner P., Sustainable Groundwater Management Problems and Scientific Tools, Episodes, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2003 |
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2002 | Siegfried T., Kinzelbach W., Management of Internationally Shared Groundwater Resources in Semiarid and Arid Regions - The Northern African Aquifer System, In: Hydrology of Mediterranean and Semiarid Regions, IAHS Publication, no. 278, 2002; |
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2002 | Kunstmann H., Kinzelbach W., Siegfried T., Conditional first-order second-moment method and its application to the quantification of uncertainty in groundwater modeling, Water Resources Research, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2002 |
[15] |
1996 | Schläpfer D., Siegfried T., The Lake Ohrid Conservation Project, World Water and Environmental Engineering, April 1996; |
[16] |
1990 | Siegfried T., Benz R., Wachter G., Astronomie im Weltraum, Orion, 48. Jahrgang, Nr. 237, April 1990; |
| Publications: Other |
| 2006 | Kinzelbach, W., Brunner, P., Siegfried, T. 2006, Concepts and methods for sustainable water resources management, Proceedings of the XXIV Nordic Hydrological Conference, Vingsted Centret, Denmark 6 - 9 August 2006. NHP report Nr. 49, p.29-36 |
| 2006 | Siegfried, T. and Bernauer, T., Measuring International Policy Performance, The International Workshop on Governance and the Global Water System: Institutions, actors and scales of water governance facing the challenges of global change, 20-23 June, 2006, Bonn, Germany |
| 2004 | Kinzelbach, W., Bauer, P. & Siegfried T., Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft in ariden und semiariden Regionen, Warnsignal Klima: Genug Wasser für alle?, Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, J. L. Lozán et al. (Hrsg.), Hamburg 2004 |
| 2004 | El-Fahem, T., Siegfried T., Kinzelbach W., Pfeiffer, S. and Ben Baccar B.; Isotopic and hydrochemical investigation in the origins of groundwater salination in the Nefzawa Oases (Southern Tunisia), In: Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Soil and Groundwater Contamination – Risk Assessment and Remedial Measures, Hyderabad, India, 2004 |
| 2004 | Kinzelbach, W., P. Bauer, P. Brunner & T. Siegfried, Sustainable water management in arid and semi-arid environments, In: Water Resources of Arid Areas, Stephenson, Chemang & Chaoka (eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, p. 3-16, 2004 |
| 2003 | Kinzelbach, W., P. Bauer, T. Siegfried, P. Brunner, Sustainable water management in arid environments, In: Research Basins and Hydrological Planning. Proceedings of an international conference. Hefei, China, Xi, Gu and Seiler (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, p. 27-34, 2003 |
| 2003 | Kinzelbach W., Bauer P., Siegfried T. und Brunner P., Nachhaltige Grundwasserwirtschaft Probleme und wissenschaftliche Werkzeuge, Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft, Heft 3/4, März/April 2003, Springer Verlag |
| 2003 | Siegfried T., Knappe Ressource im Nördlichen Afrika, Bulletin ETH Zürich, Nr. 289, Mai 2003 |
| 2002 | Siegfried, T., Die Wüste wächst, Gegenworte, Zeitschrift für den Disput über Wissen, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hrsg.), 10. Heft, Herbst 2002 |
| 2000 | Rumbou, A., Alberich, C., Kessler, P., Siegfried, T., The Nile – Addressing Future Water Scarcity, Research Paper, ETH Zürich, 16.6.2000 |
| 1997 | Siegfried T., Mock R., Fuzzifizierung von Schadensindikatoren, Report, Inst. for Energy Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1997 |
| 1997 | Siegfried, T. and W. Kinzelbach, Modelling of Groundwater Withdrawal and its Consequences to the Aquifer, A Case Study in Semi-Arid Botswana, Report, Inst. of Hydromechanics and Water Res. Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1997 |
| 1995 | Siegfried T., Schubert R., Umweltorientierte Entwicklungspolitik, Centre for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, August 1995 |
| Recent Invitited Talks |
| April 2007 | Water: A 21st Century Challenge for Sustainable Development (Panel) , Earth Institute, Columbia University |
| October 2006 | Sustainable Water and Soil Management in Arid Zones, Many Problems, Few Solutions - The Case of Northern Africa , CERC, Columbia University |
| July 2006 | Multi-objective Groundwater Management , FIVA - Research School of Water Resources, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| June 2006 | Estimating the Performance of International Regulatory Regimes, Application to Syr Darya River / Toktogul Reservoir, Technical University of Denmark, Lynby, Denmark |
| May 2006 | Sustainable Water Resources Management in Second-Best Environments, Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA |
| Oct. 2005 | Multi-Objective, Transboundary Aquifer Management, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Dec. 2004 | New Approaches to Managing Groundwater Resources, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York City, USA |
| June 2005 | Optimal Groundwater Management Using Discrete Stochastic Multi-Objective Opimization, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland |
| March 2004 | Optimal Utilization of Groundwater Resources, Ecole des Mines, Fonainbleau, Paris, France |
| Feb. 2004 | Optimal Utilization of Groundwater Resources, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
| June 2003 | Sustainable Management of Internationally Shared Groundwater Resources - The North-West Sahara Aquifer System, Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, Tunis, Tunisia |
| Downloads |
| Summer 2007 | Political Economy of Freshwater - SIPA Course Summer 2007 |
| Lecture 1 | Introduction to Hydrology and the Hydrological Cycle |
| Lecture 2 | Global Water Balance and Global Water Crisis |
| Lecture 3 | Principles of Water Resources Management - Sustainability, Optimality, Equity and Risk / Introduction to Groundwater |
| Lecture 4 | Groundwater Flow and Transport / Urban Hydrology, Water Challenges of Megacities and Wastewater Treatment |
| Lecture 5 | Understanding Conflicts and Cooperation in Freshwater Resources Allocation |
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Swiss 16.09.1970 |
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Last edited: 01/30/2008, Tobias Siegfried