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 an associate research scientist at the Columbia Water Center, The Earth Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, both at Columbia University. At the moment, Siegfried's main work focuses on a) upstream-/downstream conflicts in transboundary river basins, b) the current and future water challenge of India with a focus on the water--energy--food nexus, c) the assessment and mitigation of climate related impacts on human welfare in the context of rural development as well as ongoing resource depletion and degradation and d) the quantification of the performance of international environmental regimes.
Siegfried studied environmental physics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, U.K.. He carried out his PhD at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETHZ under the supervision of Profs. Wolfgang Kinzelbach and Rolf Kappel. While integrating physical, social, economic and policy analysis, Siegfried studies numerous natural resources management challenges, from local up to global scales. He has completed field studies in Northern, Eastern and Southern Africa and is involved in ongoing work in Central and South Asia. Siegfried publishes his interdisciplinary scientific work in leading journals of the respective fields. The full Curriculum can be downloaded here.
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| Academic Qualifications |
| 2007-date | SIPA, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| 2008-date | Columbia Water Center, The Earth Institute, Columbia University | Associate Research Scientist |
| 2006-2008 | Earth Institute, Columbia University | Earth Institute Fellow |
| 2005-2006 |
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University |
Visiting Research Scientist |
| 2005 |
Center for Comparative and International Studies, International Relations, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich |
Postdoctoral Research Scientist |
| 2004-2005 | Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management, ETH Zurich | Postdoctoral Research Scientist |
| Education |
| 2004 | PhD in Environmental Sciences | ETHZ |
| 2008-date | MSc in International Relations | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 2006-2008 | MSc in Environmental Sciences | ETHZ |
| Grants honors 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 fur Postgraduierte aus Oesterreich und der Schweiz" |
| 1989 | Swiss Winner of a European Space Agency (ESA) competition on occasion of ESA`s 25th Birthday |
| Publications: Book and Book Chapters |
| 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) |
| 2004 | Kinzelbach, W., P. Bauer, P. Brunner and T. Siegfried (2004), "Sustainable water management in arid and semi-arid environments", In: Water Resources of Arid Areas, Stephenson, Chemangand Chaoka (eds.), Taylor and Francis Group, London, p. 3-16 |
| 2004 | Kinzelbach, W., Bauer, P. and Siegfried T. (2004), "Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft in ariden und semiariden Regionen, Warnsignal Klima: Genug Wasser fur alle?, Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen", J. L. Lozan et al. (Hrsg.), Hamburg |
| Publications: Articles in Preparation |
| 2008 | Siegfried, T., Riegels, N.and Bauer-Gottwein, P. (2008), "A Game-Theoretic Framework for Water Allocation Decisions Using Stochastic Learning Methods" |
| 2008 | Siegfried, T., Fishman, R., Vasquez, V., Modi, V. and Lall U. (2008), "An Entitlement Approach to Address the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Rural India" |
| 2008 | Riegels, N., Pereira Cardenal, S., Ashakeeva, G., Siegfried, T., and Bauer-Gottwein, P. (2008), "Reinforcement Learning Multi–Agent Modeling of Decision–Making Agents for the Study of Transboundary Surface Water Conflicts with Application to the Syr Darya River Basin" |
| 2008 | Sobolowski, S., Siegfried, T. and Lall, U. (2008), "Hierarchical Spatio--Temporal Bayesian Model for Agricultural Production" |
| 2008 | Siegfried, T., Sobolowski, S. and Lall, U. (2009), "Agricultural production and groundwater depletion under climate variability in India -- Results from a regional scale multi--level modeling approach" |
| 2008 | Athanassoglou, S., Woonghee, T. H., Sherif, G. and Siegfried, T. (2009), "Simple Mechanisms for Managing Complex Aquifers" |
| Publications: Journal Articles |
| 2008 | Upmanu Lall, Tanya Heikkila, Casey Brown and Tobias Siegfried (2008), "Water in the 21st Century: Defining the Elements of Global Crises and Potential Solutions", Journal of International Affairs, Vol.61, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2008 |
| 2008 | 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; |
| 2008 | Kwon, H., Khalil, A., Siegfried, T., "Analysis of Extreme Summer Rainfall Using Climate Teleconnections and Typhoon Characteristics In South Korea", JAWRA, Vol 44 Issue 2, pages 436 - 438; |
| 2008 | Balloumi, M., Siegfried, T., Matoussi, M., Kinzelbach, W., An efficiency comparison of two institutional types of farms, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, submitted; |
| 2008 | Bernauer, T. and Siegfried, T., "On Cooperation, Compliance and Performance in International Water Management", Global Governance, forthcoming; |
| 2007 | 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; |
| 2007 | Siegfried, T., Bleuler, S., Laumanns, M. Zitzler, E., Kinzelbach, W. Multi-Objective Groundwater Management Using Evolutionary Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 2009, doi: 10.1109/TEVC.2008.923391; |
| 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 |
| 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; |
| 2003 | Kinzelbach W., Bauer P., Siegfried T. And Brunner P., "Sustainable Groundwater Management Problems and Scientific Tools", Episodes, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2003 |
| 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; |
| 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 Resour. Res., Vol. 38, No. 4, 2002 |
| 1996 | Schlaepfer D., Siegfried T., "The Lake Ohrid Conservation Project", World Water and Environmental Engineering, April 1996; |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 Noerdlichen Afrika, Bulletin ETH Zurich, Nr. 289, Mai 2003 |
| 2002 | Siegfried, T., Die Wueste waechst, Gegenworte, Zeitschrift fur den Disput uber 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 Zurich, 16.6.2000 |
| 1997 | Siegfried T., Mock R., Fuzzifizierung von Schadensindikatoren, Report, Inst. for Energy Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 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, Zurich, 1997 |
| 1995 | Siegfried T., Schubert R., Umweltorientierte Entwicklungspolitik, Centre for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, August 1995 |
| Recent Invitited Talks |
| 2008 | An entitlement approach to address the water-energy-food nexus in rural India, co-hosted by North-South Center and Center for International Studies at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich, Switzerland |
| 2008 | China Water Conference (Panel), hosted by: The Columbia Water Center, The Earth Institute at Columbia University |
| 2007 | Water: A 21st Century Challenge for Sustainable Development (Panel) , The Earth Institute, Columbia University |
| 2006 | Sustainable Water and Soil Management in Arid Zones, Many Problems, Few Solutions - The Case of Northern Africa , CERC, Columbia University |
| 2006 | Multi-objective Groundwater Management , FIVA - Research School of Water Resources, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2006 | Estimating the Performance of International Regulatory Regimes, Application to Syr Darya River / Toktogul Reservoir, Technical University of Denmark, Lynby, Denmark |
| 2006 | Sustainable Water Resources Management in Second-Best Environments, Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA |
| 2005 | Multi-Objective, Transboundary Aquifer Management, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA |
| 2004 | New Approaches to Managing Groundwater Resources, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York City, USA |
| 2005 | Optimal Groundwater Management Using Discrete Stochastic Multi-Objective Opimization, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland |
| 2004 | Optimal Utilization of Groundwater Resources, Ecole des Mines, Fonainbleau, Paris, France |
| 2004 |
Optimal Utilization of Groundwater Resources, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 2003 | Sustainable Management of Internationally Shared Groundwater Resources - The North-West Sahara Aquifer System, Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, Tunis, Tunisia |
| Service to the Profession |
| 2008 | International Advisor, Central Asia Research and Training Initiative, Open Society Institute, Budapest | Research Advisor on Central Asia Water Problems |
| 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) |
| Downloads |
| Political Economy of Freshwater - SIPA Course Summer 2007 / 2008 | |
| 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: 09/04/2009, Tobias Siegfried