Ugur Öztürk
Dr.-Ing.Member of the Young Academy since 2025
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-7641-4344
Research Areas:
- Geosciences
- Natural hazards
- Geomorphology
- Physical geography
- Geostatistics
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Selected Prizes:
- 2024 ERC Starting Grant (UrbanSlide Project, PE10)
- 2023 Postdoc-Preis des Landes Brandenburg in der Kategorie „Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften“
Selected Publications:
- Ozturk, Ugur, Elisa Bozzolan, Elizabeth A. Holcombe, Roopam Shukla, Francesca Pianosi, and Thorsten Wagener. ‘How Climate Change and Unplanned Urban Sprawl Bring More Landslides’. Nature 608, no. 7922 (11 August 2022): 262–65. doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02141-9.
- Nieto, Sara, Edier Aristizabal, Ugur Ozturk. ‘Coupled Evolution of a City and Landslides’. Environmental Research Letters, (March 2025). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc4d8.
- Stein, Lina, S. Karthik Mukkavilli, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Peter W. J. Staar, Ugur Ozturk, Cesar Berrospi, Thomas Brunschwiler, and Thorsten Wagener. ‘Wealth Over Woe: Global Biases in Hydro-Hazard Research’. Earth’s Future 12, no. 10 (October 2024): e2024EF004590. doi: 10.1029/2024EF004590.
- Dietze, Michael, and Ugur Ozturk. ‘A Flood of Disaster Response Challenges’. Science 373, no. 6561 (17 September 2021): 1317–18. doi:10.1126/science.abm0617.
- Ozturk, Ugur, Dadiyorto Wendi, Irene Crisologo, Adrian Riemer, Ankit Agarwal, Kristin Vogel, José Andrés López-Tarazón, and Oliver Korup. ‘Rare Flash Floods and Debris Flows in Southern Germany’. Science of The Total Environment 626 (June 2018): 941–52. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.172.