Employment Record

Key Competencies

Scientific and Project leadership

Research topics: Hydrological modelling, Satellite remote sensing, spatial patterns in hydrology, water balance closure, climate change impacts on water resources.

Selected Experience Record – Management of Research Projects and Assignments

• Project leader of the PEACE project on groundwater depth dynamics in peatlands and its impact on GHG emissions (2022-2026). Funded by DFF (6.2 mio. DKK)
• Received the Villum Foundation Young Investigator personal grant in 2014 for the SPACE project
• Project leader of the research project SPACE - SPAtial Calibration and Evaluation in distributed hydrological modeling using satellite remote sensing data (2014-2019). Funded by the Villum Foundation (VKR023443, 7 mio. DKK).(http://www.space.geus.dk/)
• Project leader of the research project MAR-China concerning managed Aquifer Recharge in the North China Plains (2018-2021). Funded by DANIDA (17-M08-GEU, 5 Mill. DKK). (https://www.mar-china.geus.dk/)
• Scientific leader of the team behind the 12 Mill. DKK Hydrological Informations and Prognosis (HIP4+) project (2018-2020). Developing a highresolution groundwater-surface water model for Denmark for climate change impact studies.
• Project leader of the research and capacity building project CLIVET concerning climate change impacts on hydrology and agriculture in Tanzania (2009-2015). Funded by DANIDA (09-066GEUS , 6 Mill. DKK).  As project coordinator, Simon lead the project from 2011-2015.
• Danish project leader on the international research project on water resources and climate resilience in Ghana (CREAM 2019-2024). Funded by DANIDA (GEUS part 2.8 Mill DKK, Total budget 12 Mill DKK)
• Recipient of DFF travel grant (125.000 DKK) and Inge Lehman foundation scholarship (39.000 DKK) in 2009.

International invited talks

• Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Water Lecture Seminar Series 2018 #6. June 26^th 2018 “A framework for spatial pattern oriented calibration of distributed hydrological models using satellite observations”
• Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China. Nanshan Guest Lecture Series. September 21^st 2018 “A framework for spatial pattern oriented calibration of distributed hydrological models using satellite observations”
• British Geological Survey, London, England. HydroJules British mainland groundwater modelling meeting. January 23^rd “The Danish national groundwater model
• University of Copenhagen International Groundwater Symposium. November 16^th –17^th “National scale groundwater-surface water modelling in Denmark”

Supervision

• PostDocs: Xin He (2010-2014), Gorka Mendiguren (2015-2018), Fabio Oriani (2016-2018), Cüneyd Demirel (2016-2019), Julian Koch (2017-2020), Raphael Schneider(2017-2022), Mohsen Soltani (2019-2021), Mie Andreasen (2019-2023), Grith Martinsen(2019-2021), Saskia Noorduijn (2021-2023), Trine Enemark (2022-2023), Ida Karlson (2019-2023), Jun Liu (2022-2023) and Tanja Denager (2022-2023).
• Unofficial main-supervisor for PhD’s Julian Koch (2017) and Mehrdis Danapour (2019), employed at GEUS: In addition co-supervisor on several PhDs at KU, AU and abroad.

PhD evaluation committees

• Gasper Laurent Sechu, Aarhus University 2022; Kim Madsen vant Veen, Aarhus University 2022; Rakesh Chandra Joshi, University of Melbourne 2022; Jun Liu, Technical University of Denmark 2022; Søren Højmark Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen 2012.