Jan Wolfertz

BACKGROUND

Jan studied mathematics and genetics and received his diploma from the University of Duesseldorf. He has worked for a bioinformatic project about halophilic Archaea and different microbial organisms www.halolex.mpg.de; www.migenas.org). Before his involvent in TRANSFER he was dealing with the evaluation of tsunamis within a flood project regarding the rivers Rhine and Saale of the German Civil Protection Agency (BBK).

WORKING AREA AT UNU-EHS

He is a Research Associate at the UNU-EHS. Jan is working in the Vulnerability Assessment Section and is currently involved in the TRANSFER project. He is the statistical analyst at the UNU-EHS.