On September 14th, THESys Doctoral Researcher Fabian Stenzel successfully defended his dissertation on the implications of large-scale irrigated bioenergy plantations for future water use and water stress.

Fabian will continue his work at  the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in a PostDoc project on global systemic risks arising from degradation of the biosphere together with researchers from Future Earth, the Global Challenges Foundation and the Earth Commission.

Read more about Fabian’s work here:
https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/25/1711/2021/hess-25-1711-2021.html
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2b4b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21640-3