Biography

since 2009

Leader of the ECHO group (Emmy-Noether Programme, DFG) on ecohydrological feedback mechanisms

2004-2008

Postdoc within the SESAM project (Sediment export from large semi-arid catchments: Measurement and modelling

2001-2004

PhD in Physical Geography, King's College London

2000-2001

MSc in Nonlinear Dynamics, University College London

1994-2000

Diplom in Civil Engineering, TU Darmstadt

Research

• Link to ECHO Project homepage
• Link to SESAM Project homepage
• Ecohydrological feedback dynamics in meso-scale basins (Brandenburg, New Mexico, Mato Grosso)
• Physically-based modelling of water, sediment- and nutrient-transport processes and vegetation dynamics from the hillslope to the regional scale
• Desertification, land degradation and the effects of land-use change on water and soil resources
• Scale issues related to environmental modelling (parameter scaling, process scaling)

Teaching

• Hydrology (S)
• River Basins (S)
• Introduction in geoecological simulation methods (Ü/S)
• Regional water crisis (S)
  
• River quality and the water framework directive (S)
  
• Investigative field studies and their methodological exploration (S)
  

Publications

• MUELLER, EN., GÜNTNER, A., FRANCKE, T., MAMEDE, G. (2010): Modelling water availability, sediment export and reservoir sedimentation in drylands with the WASA-SED model. Geosci. Model Dev., 3, 275-291, doi:10.5194/gmd-3-275-2010
• WAINWRIGHT, J., PARSONS, AJ., MÜLLER, EN., BRAZIER, R.E., POWELL, D.M (2010) Standing proud: a response to ‘Soil-ersoion models: where do we really stand?’ by Smith et al., Earth Surface Processes and Landforms DOI: 10.1002/esp.2047
• MUELLER, EN., RJ. BATALLA, T. FRANCKE, A. BRONSTERT (2009) Modelling the effects of land-use change on runoff and sediment yield for a meso-scale catchment in the Southern Pyrenees, CATENA 79: 103-111
• WAINWRIGHT, J., PARSONS, AJ., MÜLLER, EN., BRAZIER, R.E., POWELL, D.M (2009) Response to Kinnell’s ‚Comment on „A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: III. Evaluating scaling characteristics of Mahleran”’, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms DOI: 10.1002/esp.1816
• WAINWRIGHT, J., PARSONS, AJ., MÜLLER, EN., BRAZIER, R.E., POWELL, D.M (2009) Response to Hairsine’s and Sander’s ‚Comment on „A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: III. Evaluating scaling characteristics of Mahleran”’, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms DOI: 10.1002/esp.1781
• MÜLLER, EN., BATALLA, RJ., GARCIA, C. AND BRONSTERT, A. (2008): Modelling bed-load rates from fine grain-size patches during small floods in a gravel-bed river, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 134, 1430-1439.
• WAINWRIGHT, J., PARSONS, AJ., MÜLLER, EN., BRAZIER, R.E., POWELL, D.M. AND FENTI, B. (2008): A transport-    distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 1. Background and model development, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1624.
• WAINWRIGHT, J., PARSONS, AJ., MÜLLER, EN., BRAZIER, R.E., POWELL, D.M. AND FENTI, B. (2008): A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 2. Sensitivity and evaluation of MAHLERAN, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1623.
• WAINWRIGHT, J., PARSONS, AJ., MÜLLER, EN., BRAZIER, R.E., POWELL, D.M. AND FENTI, B. (2008): A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 3. Evaluating scaling characteristics of MAHLERAN, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1622.
• FRANCKE, T., A. GÜNTNER, A. BRONSTERT, G. MAMEDE, EN. MÜLLER (2008), Automated Catena-based Discretisation of Landscapes for Semi-distributed Hydrological Modelling. International Journal of Geographical Information Science DOI: 10.1080/13658810701300873
• MÜLLER, EN., WAINWRIGHT, J. AND PARSONS, A.J. (2007): The Impact of Connectivity on the Modelling of Overland Flow within Semi-Arid Shrubland Environments, Water Resour. Res., 43, W09412, doi:10.1029/2006WR005006.
• MÜLLER, EN., WAINWRIGHT, J. AND PARSONS, A.J. (2007): The Stability of Vegetation Boundaries and the Propagation of Desertification in the American Southwest: A Modelling Approach, Ecological Modelling. Ecological Modelling 2008, 91-101.
• MÜLLER, EN., WAINWRIGHT, J. AND PARSONS, A.J. (2007): Spatial variability of soil and nutrient characteristics of semi-arid grasslands and shrublands, Jornada Basin, New Mexico, Ecohydrology, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1.
• MÜLLER, EN., R. J. BATALLA, A. BRONSTERT. (2006) Dryland river modelling of water and sediment fluxes using a representative river stretch approach. Book chapter IN: Natural Systems and Global Change, RCAFE PAS Poznan, p. 115-122.
• MÜLLER, EN (2007) Scaling approaches to the modelling of water, sediment and nutrient fluxes within semi-arid landscapes, Jornada Basin, New Mexico, Logos Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8325-1754-0, PhD thesis submitted 2004 to King’s College London, UK