Ass.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Ugur Öztürk, B.Sc. M.Sc.
T: +43-1-4277-48790
Foto: MedGU25
Sommersemester 2026
290500 VO Risk Prevention and Disaster Management
Wintersemester 2025
Fidan, S., Görüm, T., Akbas, A., Ekberzade, B., & Ozturk, U. (2026). Wealth and land-cover change govern landslide fatalities on world’s mountains. Science Advances, 12(5), Artikel eaec2739.
Ozturk, U., Braun, A., Gómez-Zapata, J. C., & Aristizábal, E. (2026). Urban poor are the most endangered by socio-natural hazards, but not exclusively: the 2025 Granizal Landslide case. Landslides, 23(4), 1179-1185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-025-02680-y
Fan, X., Bhuyan, K., Wang, X., Cook, K. L., Ozturk, U., Loew, S., Gyamtsho, P., Jansen, J. D., & Xu, Q. (2025). Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards. Nature Geoscience, 18(11), 1066-1067. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01834-w
Öztürk, U. (2025). Wie "natürlich" sind Naturkatastrophen wirklich? Warum menschliches Handeln viele Katastrophen mitverursacht, und wie ein erweitertes Risikokonzept Leben retten kann. derStandard.at. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3100000291318/wie-natuerlich-sind-naturkatastrophen-wirklich
Bubeck, P., Ozturk, U., Aristizabal, E., Thieken, A. H., & Wagener, T. (2025). Mortality reduction despite changing climate extremes requires better understanding of human behavioral response to warnings. Environmental Research Letters, 20, Artikel 101004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
Nieto, S., Aristizábal, E., & Ozturk, U. (2025). Coupled evolution of a city and landslides. Environmental Research Letters, 20(5), Artikel 054001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc4d8
Cheung, K. K. W., Ozturk, U., Malik, N., Agarwal, A., Krishnan, R., & Rajagopalan, B. (2025). A review of synchronization of extreme precipitation events in monsoons from complex network perspective. Journal of Hydrology, 651, Artikel 132604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132604
Bhuyan, K., Rana, K., Ozturk, U., Nava, L., Rosi, A., Meena, S. R., Fan, X., Floris, M., van Westen, C., & Catani, F. (2025). Towards automatic delineation of landslide source and runout. Engineering Geology, 345, Artikel 107866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2024.107866
Luna, L., Carmona, M. I. A., Veh, G., Lewis, E., Ozturk, U., & Korup, O. (2025, Jan. 20). Urban landslides triggered under similar rainfall conditions in cities globally. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11010
Bhuyan, K., Rana, K., Ferrer, J. V., Cotton, F., Ozturk, U., Catani, F., & Malik, N. (2024). Landslide topology uncovers failure movements. Nature Communications, 15(1), Artikel 2633. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46741-7
Stein, L., Mukkavilli, S. K., Pfitzmann, B. M., Staar, P. W. J., Ozturk, U., Berrospi, C., Brunschwiler, T., & Wagener, T. (2024). Wealth Over Woe: Global Biases in Hydro-Hazard Research. Earth's future, 12(10), Artikel e2024EF004590. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004590
Schwanghart, W., Agarwal, A., Cook, K., Ozturk, U., Shukla, R., & Fuchs, S. (2024). Preface: Estimating and predicting natural hazards and vulnerabilities in the Himalayan region. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24(9), 3291-3297. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3291-2024
Agarwal, A., Azais, P., Cifarelli, L., Boer, J. D., Eroglu, D., Gebel, G., Hidalgo, C., Jamet, D., Kurths, J., Lefebvre-Joud, F., Linderoth, S., Loarte, A., Marwan, N., Mingo, N., Ozturk, U., Perraud, S., Pitz-Paal, R., Poedts, S., Priem, T., ... Wagner, H.-J. (2024). Physics for the environment and sustainable development. in EPS Grand Challenges https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-6342-6ch6
Rana, K., Malik, N., & Ozturk, U. (2022). Landsifier v1.0: a Python library to estimate likely triggers of mapped landslides. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(11), 3751-3764. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3751-2022
Ozturk, U., Bozzolan, E., Holcombe, E. A., Shukla, R., Pianosi, F., & Wagener, T. (2022). How climate change and unplanned urban sprawl bring more landslides. Nature, 608, 262-265. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02141-9
Dietze, M., Bell, R., Ozturk, U., Cook, K. L., Andermann, C., Beer, A. R., Damm, B., Lucia, A., Fauer, F. S., Nissen, K. M., Sieg, T., & Thieken, A. H. (2022). More than heavy rain turning into fast-flowing water – a landscape perspective on the 2021 Eifel floods. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(6), 1845-1856. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1845-2022
Ozturk, U. (2022). Geohazards explained 10: Time-dependent landslide susceptibility. Geology Today, 38(3), 117-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12391
Ozturk, U., Saito, H., Matsushi, Y., Crisologo, I., & Schwanghart, W. (2021). Can global rainfall estimates (satellite and reanalysis) aid landslide hindcasting? Landslides, 18(9), 3119-3133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-021-01689-3
Dietze, M., & Ozturk, U. (2021). A flood of disaster response challenges. Science, 373(6561), 1317-1318. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm0617
Wolf, F., Ozturk, U., Cheung, K., & Donner, R. V. (2021). Spatiotemporal patterns of synchronous heavy rainfall events in East Asia during the Baiu season. Earth System Dynamics, 12(1), 295-312. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-295-2021
ELI Sustainability Talk "The growing threat of landslides in a changing climate and expanding cities"
Öztürk, U. (Vortragende*r)
26 Nov. 2025
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Beyond Planforms: Inferring Landslide Movement Types and Kinematics
Öztürk, U. (Vortragende*r)
12 Nov. 2025
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Dynamic Landslide Risk linked to Urbanisation and Climate Change in Steep Terrain
Öztürk, U. (Vortragende*r)
1 Okt. 2025
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Public
Decoding Landslide Movements and Kinematic Zones from Landslide Planforms
Öztürk, U. (Vortragende*r)
1 Mai 2025
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Getting Ahead of Landslides: Understanding Social and Environmental Interactions to Anticipate Future Urban Landslide Risk (UrbanSlide)
Öztürk, U. (Projektleiter*in)
1/07/25 → 30/06/30
Projekt: Forschungsförderung
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
1090 Wien
Zimmer: 2C575
T: +43-1-4277-48790
