Hydrological processes and modelling

• Erosion and associated transport of substances 

• Process based hydrological modelling

New model approaches for catchments at the lower mesocale

• Surface runoff and hydrologic connectivity

• Organisation principles of water and mass transport in heterogeneous landscapes

River basin management

• Emission of nutrients and contaminants from point and diffuse sources

• Impact of landuse and climate change on terrestrial water cycles and mass transport

Development of the curriculum for the international master study program "Water Science and Engineering" (expected starting date: 2016)

Selected Publications

• Scherer, U. (2014): Wasserforschung und –lehre am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). gwf-Wasser|Abwasser, Reihe Netzwerk Wissen, 279-285

• Jäckel, G. Krüger, E., Bronstert, A., Vorogushyn, S., Scherer, U., Emeis, K., Kollet, S., Vermöhlen, K., Moreira, A., Lüders, T., Rügner, H., Seegert, J. (2014): Integrierte Forschung zur Lösung globaler Wasserprobleme. Broschüre des Helmholtz-Wassernetzwerks

• Ehret, U., H. V. Gupta, M. Sivapalan, S. V. Weijs, S. J. Schymanski, G. Blöschl, A. N. Gelfan, C. Harman, A. Kleidon, T. A. Bogaard, D. Wang, T. Wagener, U. Scherer, E. Zehe, M. F. P. Bierkens, G. Di Baldassarre, J. Parajka, L. P. H. Van Beek, A. Van Griensven, M. C. Westhoff and H. C. Winsemius (2014): Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 649-671

• Zehe, E., U. Ehret, T. Blume, A. Kleidon, U. Scherer and M. Westhoff (2013): A thermodynamic approach to link self-organization, preferential flow and rainfall-runoff behaviour. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 4297-4322

• Kleidon, A., Zehe, E., Ehret, U., Scherer, U. (2013): Thermodynamics, maximum power, and the dynamics of preferential river flow structures on continents. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 225-251

• Scherer, U., Zehe, E., Träbing, K., and Gerlinger, K. (2012): Prediction of soil detachment in agricultural loess catchments: Model development and parameterisation, Catena, 90, 63-75

• Fuchs, S., Scherer, U., Wander, R., Behrendt, H. et al. (2010): Calculation of Emissions into Rivers in Germany using the MONERIS Model - Nutrients, heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. UBA-Texte 46/2010. F. E. A. (Germany), Dessau (Germany)

• Scherer, U. (2008): Prozessbasierte Modellierung der Bodenerosion in einer Lösslandschaft. Schriftenreihe IWG, University Karlsruhe, 129

• Scherer, U., Gerlinger K (2008): Simulation von Erosion und Sedimentation auf der Ereignisskale. In: Plate E, Zehe E (Eds): Hydrologie und Stoffdynamik kleiner Einzugsgebiete. Prozesse und Modelle, Schweizerbart (Stuttgart)

• Scherer, U., S. Fuchs, H. Behrendt and T. Hillenbrand (2003): Emissions of heavy metals into river basins of Germany. Water Science and Technology 47 (7-8), 251-257

• Since 2015: Coordinator of the Water Research Network Baden-Württemberg

• 2013-2015: Coordinator of KIT Water Research

• 2011-2013: Research and teaching associate at the Institute for Water and River Basin Management, Chair of Hydrology, KIT

• 2008-2011: Research and teaching associate at the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, TU München

• 1999-2008: Research associate at the Chair of Aquatic Environmental Engineering, Universität Karlsruhe

• Member of the DFG Graduate School „Ecological Water Management", Universität Karlsruhe

• Studies of geology and soil science at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Akademic Services

• Session convener at EGU (European Geosciences Union)

• Reviewer for ISI-listed journals (Catena, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), Hydrobiologia, Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft)

• Evaluation of research proposals