Institute for Global Water Security

Water shapes economies, cities, and lives — and it is one of the most unpredictable forces on Earth. We build the mathematical and computational foundations to quantify that unpredictability and turn it into decisions that protect people and infrastructure.

The problems we work on are concrete: how severe will the next major flood be, and how will that change over a 50-year planning horizon? Which adaptation investments hold up across thousands of plausible future rainfall and drought conditions — and which fail under scenarios we have not yet considered? How do we translate probabilistic climate projections into design standards, insurance pricing, and governance decisions that communities can act on?

The Institute for Global Water Security was established at TUHH in 2025, bringing together two decades of research in probabilistic hydrology and a proven open-source simulation framework. We work on the full chain from statistical theory through deployed tools to real-world decisions — for infrastructure engineers, reinsurance analysts, city planners, and policy makers.