Ecohydraulics & Climate-Aware Restoration

Restoring aquatic ecosystems is increasingly recognized as a critical strategy for addressing the growing biodiversity and climate crises. While many restoration efforts prioritize flagship species, evidence suggests that smaller aquatic organisms play an outsized role in maintaining ecosystem services and regulating greenhouse gas fluxes in rivers.

Sebastian’s research is centered on lab-scale, field-scale, and numerical analyses to gain insights into water-driven processes that underpin vital functions, tackling a broad spectrum of ecologically and climatologically urgent questions for the broader society. Recent investigations span AI-optimized numerical modeling, data-driven ecohydraulic site analysis, and riverbed clogging (also referred to as “colmation” in Europe).

For a comprehensive list of publications and projects, please visit Sebastian’s ORCID or Google Scholar profiles.

Codes, research algorithms, and Python packages from Sebastian are mostly hosted on GitHub along with detailed docs: https://github.com/sschwindt/.