May 2021 – Nov. 2025

Dr.rer.nat. Hydrogeology  – Freie University Berlin

June 2014 – March 2017

M.Sc. Environmental Engineering - Water Resources Management – RWTH Aachen

2010 – Mai 2014

B.Sc. Environmental Engineering – RWTH Aachen

Since Dec. 2024

Support of Project Coordination at Freie Universität Berlin - in Atominterferometrie für die quantitative Wassermessung im Untergrund (AtomAqua)

June 2024 – Nov. 2024

Research Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – in Hydrokarst

Dec 2020 – June 2024

Project Coordinator at Freie University Berlin – Hydrogeology in Indo German Partnership in Climate and Water Research (IGCaWR)

Nov. 2017 – Dec 2020

Research Associate at German Environment Agency – WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Drinking-water Hygiene

Schmidt, I., Freier, C., Leykauf, B., Schkolnik, V., Willkommen, G., & Stephan, C.
Constraining hydrological models by combining ground-based gravimetry and magnetic resonance sounding. EGU General Assembly 2026 Conference Abstracts, EGU26-12656.

Richard-Cerda, J. C., Schmidt, I., Koeniger, P., Karthikeyan, B., Schneider, M., & Schulz, S. Improving punctual groundwater recharge estimate modeling by including stable water isotopes. EGU General Assembly 2026 Conference Abstracts, EGU26-13724.

Schulz, S., Hillmann, S., Muñoz-Vega, E., Zolezzi-López, J., Richard-Cerda, J. C., Schmidt, I., & Jung, H. From minutes to millennia, from plots to planet: A spatiotemporal view on groundwater recharge. EGU General Assembly 2026 Conference Abstracts, EGU26-14114.

Schmidt, I., S. Schulz, K. Gumgowski, Richard-Cerda, J.C., Brindha, K., Schneider, M. 2025. Effectiveness of Irrigation Tanks for Enhancing Groundwater Recharge. Hydrological Processes 39, no. 12: e70328. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70328.

Schmidt, I., Costabel, S., Freier, C., Leykauf, B., Peters, A., Schkolnik, V., Vogt, E., & Göppert, N. (2025). Constraining groundwater recharge estimates with gravity measurements. Presented at Geo4Göttingen 2025. DOI: 10.48380/4wfd-vr23.

Schmidt, I., Gumgowski, K., Elamuhil, S., Schulz, S., Königer, P., Brindha, K. and Schneider, M. (2023) Investigation of infiltration processes of surface water reservoirs: a case study from Madurai, India. The 28thGeneral Assembly, IUGG, Berlin, Germany.

Rapp, T., Rickert, B., Schmidt, I., Schmoll, O., & Zügner, V. (2020).
Das Water Safety Plan (WSP)-Konzept für Gebäude: Ein Handbuch für die Anwendung in Trinkwasser-Installationen. Umweltbundesamt.

Schmidt, I., Rickert, B., Schmoll, O., & Rapp, T. (2019).
Implementation and evaluation of the water safety plan approach for buildings.
Journal of Water and Health, 17(6), 870–883. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2019.046

Schmidt et al. (2019): Implementation and evaluation of the water safety plan approach for buildings. Journal of Water Health.