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Dr. Vanessa Reinhart

Contact
Room: IA E6/93
Mail: vanessa.reinhart@rub.de
Office hours:Mo-Thu 08:00-16:30
Unit: Bochum Urban Climate Lab



Focus of activity

climate adaptation, urban climate, remote sensing, GIS, climate change communication

Vanessa Reinhart
Vanessa Reinhart

Curriculum vitae

Professional experience

  • Since 08/2024 Research associate at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    • Project Data2Resilience at the Institute of Geography.
    • Work: Project management, scientific dissemination and public outreach.
  • 11/2021 – 06/2024 Postdoc at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
    • Project CoKLIMAx at the Climate Service Center GERMANY (GERICS): Use of Copernicus data for climate-resilient urban planning using water, heat and vegetation as examples.
    • Work: Integration of climate projection data and urban information using GIS, build-up of database for climate and other environmental data within an ArcGIS Enterprise, urban climate modelling, stakeholder analysis, representation of CoKLIMAx at scientific conferences
  • 06/2018 – 10/2021 Doctoral student and staff member in the Helmholtz Institute for Climate Service Science (HICSS) at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
    • Project LANDMATE: Modelling human LAND surface Modifications and its feedback on local and regional cliMATE
    • Work: assessment on land cover and land use representation in regional climate models (RCMs), development of customized, realistic land cover time series for the use in RCMs, representation of LANDMATE at scientific conferences
  • 10/2014 - 09/2018 Student assistant job, Universität Hamburg (Assistant of the department manager, Department of Earth Sciences, assistant lecturer in several methods courses)
  • 12/2014 – 02/2016 Student worker in Service and PR, Casamundo GmbH, Hamburg (PRmonitoring, social media evaluation and reporting, Handling of press inquiries)
  • 08/2013 – 11/2014 Student assistant job, Universität Hamburg (Assistant lecturer for basic statistics and EDP) 09/2012 – 03/2013 Student assistant job, Universität Hamburg (Development and implementation of a survey regarding alumni of the Institute of Geography, Hamburg)
  • 09/2009 – 06/2010 Training as an insurance clerk, ERGO Group, Karlsruhe (Customer service and acquisition, needs assessment, damage and coverage assessment)

Education

  • 06/2018 – 02/2022 Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat) doctoral subject of Earth System Sciences Topic of thesis: ‘The improvement of land use and land cover representation in regional climate models’ (Final grade: magna cum laude, 1.3)
  • 04/2015 – 03/2018 Master of Science in Geography, Universität Hamburg Key aspects: Earth System Sciences, Geoinformatics, Climate & Environmental Modeling Topic of thesis: ‘Sensitivity analysis of climate parameters to planetary boundary layer parameterizations in WRF over the complex terrain of Rolwaling Himal (Nepal)’ (Final grade: passed with distinction, 1.04)
  • 10/2011 – 03/2015 Bachelor of Science in Geography, Universität Hamburg Topic of thesis: ‘Bewertung und Differenzierung der Standortheterogenität von zwei Forststandorten im Eißendorfer Sunder (Harburger Berge) anhand bodenkundlicher Kriterien unter Berücksichtigung der Nährstofflüsse in der Bodenlösung’ (Final grade: 1.6)
  • 10/2010 – 09/2011 Studies in Geography and German, Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • 09/1999 – 06/2008 Abitur at the Otto-HahnGymnasium, Karlsruhe (Final grade: 2.4)

Scholarships

  • 03/2016, 10/2016 & 03/2017 Three-time PROMOS-Scholarship holder (DAAD) for research within the TREELINE project at the Rolwaling Valley, Nepal (Installation and initial commissioning of new climate stations, maintenance of the climate station network located in the Rolwaling Valley, dismantling of the soil subproject)

Further qualifications

  • Languages: German – Native speaker, English – Level C2, Educated native speaker (DAAD)
  • IT: MS Office, ArcGIS (Pro, Portal, Enterprise), SAGA GIS, R, SPSS, Linux, Python

Publications

  • Harrs, J.-A., Reinhart, V., Vögt, V., Scheib, J.P.P., Tewes, T., Pohl, T., Rechid, D. Integration of climate information into urban climate change adaptation: a case study of municipal processes in Constance (accepted)
  • Hoffmann, P., Asselin, O., Reinhart, V., Rechid, D. (2024). LUCAS LUC historical land use and land cover change dataset for North America (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LUC_hist_NA_v1.1
  • Hoffmann, P., Asselin, O., Reinhart, V., Rechid, D. (2024). LUCAS LUC future land use and land cover change dataset for North America (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LUC_future_NA_v1.1
  • Hoffmann, P., Asselin, O., Reinhart, V., Rechid, D. (2024). LANDMATE PFT land cover dataset for North America 2015 (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LM_PFT_NA_v1.1.
  • Hoffmann, P., Reinhart, V., Rechid, D., de Noblet-Ducoudré, N., Davin, E. L., Asmus, C., Bechtel, B., Böhner, J., Katragkou, E., and Luyssaert, S.: High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: historical and future changes in Europe, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 3819–3852, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3819-2023, 2023.
  • Vögt, V., Harrs, J.-A., Reinhart, V., Hollenbach, P., Bühler, M.M., Tewes, T. Implementing Agile Data Workflows to Unlock Climate-Resilient Urban Planning. Climate. 2023; 11(9):174. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11090174
  • Reinhart, V., Hoffmann, P., Rechid, D., Böhner, J., and Bechtel, B.: High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: a plant functional type map for Europe 2015, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1735–1794, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1735-2022, 2022.
  • Reinhart, V., Hoffmann, P. and Rechid, D. (2022). LANDMATE PFT land cover dataset for Europe 1992-2015 (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LM_PFT_EUR_v1.1
  • Hoffmann, P., Reinhart, V. and Rechid, D. (2022). LUCAS LUC future land use and land cover change dataset for Europe (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LUC_future_EU_v1.1
  • Hoffmann, P., Reinhart, V. and Rechid, D. (2022). LUCAS LUC historical land use and land cover change dataset for Europe (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LUC_hist_EU_v1.1
  • Reinhart, V., Hoffmann, P., Rechid, D. (2021). LANDMATE PFT land cover dataset for Europe 2015 (Version 1.0). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LM_PFT_LandCov_EUR2015_v1.0
  • Hoffmann, P., Reinhart, V., Rechid, D. (2021). LUCAS LUC future land use and land cover change dataset (Version 1.0). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LUC_future_landCovChange_v1.0
  • Hoffmann, P., Reinhart, V., Rechid, D. (2021). LUCAS LUC historical land use and land cover change dataset (Version 1.0). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/LUC_hist_landCovChange_v1.0 Reinhart, V., Fonte, C.C.,
  • Hoffmann, P., Bechtel, B., Rechid, D. & Boehner, J. (2020). Comparison of ESA climate change initiative land cover to CORINE land cover over Eastern Europe and the Baltic States from a regional climate modeling perspective. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 94, 102221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102221

Projects

Data2Resilience