Simon is a Doctoral Researcher in the Working Group “Terrestrial Safe Operating Space (TESS)” in RD1. His PhD project is jointly supervised by Prof. Johan Rockström (main supervisor) and Dr. Lan Wang-Erlandsson (co-supervisor, Stockholm Resilience Centre), with additional support from Dr. Lauren Seaby Andersen and Prof. Dieter Gerten. His doctoral research began within the framework of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), where he quantified atmospheric moisture flows between countries at a global scale. Since the completion of the GCEW project in October 2024, he has continued his work within the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab. His research aims to advance understanding of global water flows through atmospheric moisture tracking and complex network analysis.
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Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Simon holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science and Hydrology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and an M.Sc. in Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology with a specialization in Hydrology, Hydrogeology, and Water Resources from Stockholm University, Sweden. During his Master's studies, he worked as a research assistant with Prof. Fernando Jaramillo at the Department of Physical Geography and completed his thesis under the joint supervision of Prof. Jaramillo and Dr. Lan Wang-Erlandsson (Stockholm Resilience Centre), focusing on the global moisture sources of wetlands.
2025:
Elena De Petrillo, Simon Fahrländer, Marta Tuninetti et al. Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle, 29 April 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4177311/v1]Elena De Petrillo, Simon Fahrländer, Marta Tuninetti et al. Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle, 29 April 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4177311/vDe Petrillo, E., Fahrländer, S.F., Tuninetti, M., Andersen, L. S., Monaco, L., Ridolfi, L., & Laio, F. (2025). Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 347. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02289-y.
2024:
Fahrländer, S. F., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Pranindita, A., & Jaramillo, F. (2024). Hydroclimatic Vulnerability of Wetlands to Upwind Land Use Changes. Earth's Future, 12(3): e2023EF003837. doi:10.1029/2023EF003837.
2023:
Rockström, J., Mazzucato, M., Andersen, L., Fahrländer, S. F., & Gerten, D. (2023). Why we need a new economics of water as a common good. Nature, 615(7954), 794-797. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00800-z .