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Luterbacher

Prof. Juerg Luterbacher, PhD
Palaeoclimatology, climate variability, climate dynamics, synoptic meteorology, weather and climate extremes and impacts on ecosystem, economy and society

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PD Dr. Heike Hübener
Meteorology, Climate Modelling, Climate change impacts, adaptation to climate change and communication of climate change, Currently at HLNUG, Wiesbaden		 Phone:
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Dr. Yanet Díaz Esteban
(PostDoc)
Research areas: Climate variability and change, Projection of risks of extreme events, Machine learning, Synoptic climatology 		 Phone:
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Dr. Edgar Espitia
(PostDoc)
Hydrological Modelling, Water Quality, Hydrometeorology		 Phone:
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Mon-Fri 8:30-17:30
Dr. Odysseas Vlachopoulos
(PostDoc)
(Research Fellow, Electronics and Computer Engineer, Dipl-Ing, PhD)
Machine Learning & AI; Data analysis & processing pipelines; Extreme Events; Climate Impacts; Downscaling & Bias adjustment; Remote Sensing & Earth Observation		 Phone:
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Laura Acquafresca
(PhD student, MSc Geological Sciences and Technologies)
Remote sensing and Earth Observation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Heatwaves and drought monitoring		 Phone:
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Eva Hartmann
(PhD student, MSc Meteorology)
Paleoclimatology, Climate Modelling, Climate Variability in the Mediterranean		 Phone:
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Lorine Behr
(PhD student, MSc Climate and Environmental Change)
Concurrent extremes, marine heatwaves, ocean dynamics, climate modelling, climate change impacts		 Phone:
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Niklas Luther
(PhD student)
Compound Events, Concurrent Extremes, Extreme Value Theory, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Time Series Analysis, Long Memory, Structural Change, Climate Change, Climate Variability		 Phone:
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Manuel Ntumba
(Doctoral Researcher, PhD student, MSc Engineering: Telecommunications & Geoinformatics)
Climate Economics / Geopolitics / Financial Markets; Governance / Risk / Compliance (GRC);
Geospatial Data / Emerging Technologies / Digital Economy; Monitoring / Impact Evaluation (M&E);
Affiliation: Justus Liebig University Giessen and UNEP & GEF/World Bank Group		 Phone:
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Céline Müller
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Previous group members

Dr. Muralidhar Adakudlu
(Postdoc)
Climate Modelling, Climate Change, Programming, Data analysis
Dafka Dr. Stella Dafka
(MSc Meteorology; Dr. rer. nat.)
Renewables, windmodelling, wind power generation in the Aegean area (Greece)
Prof. Dr. Jianping Duan
(Humboldt stipendiary)
Paleoclimatology, past and current extreme climate events in proxies in Asia
Dr. Florian Ellsäßer
(Postdoc)
Compound Extreme Events, Process - based Crop Modelling, Hydrological Modelling, Bias-Correction & Downscaling, Climate Change, Water Usage of Plants
engler Dr. Steven Engler
(Dipl. Geography, Dr. rer. nat.)
Climate Famine and European Emigration: Case Studies from the ‘Little Ice Age’ (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Funding Initiative ‘Social dimension of climate protection and climate change’)
Supervision together with Dr. Franz Mauelshagen, KWI ESSEN
Garcia Bustamante Dr. Elena Garcia-Bustamante
(MSc and PhD Physics)
Palaeoclimatology, wind power (DFG project: ‘Historical climatology of the Middle East on the basis of Arabic sources since A.D. 800’)

Moritz Haupt

Dr. Fatemeh Heidari
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analysis, Deep Learning Techniques, Developing Machine
Learning Models

Dr. Martin Ivanov
(MSc Meteorology, PhD Earth Sciences)
Statistical downscaling and extremes (DFG project ‘Ensemble projections of hydro-biogeochemical fluxes under climate change’)

Dr. Qing Lin
(PostDoc)
Machine learning models, climate downscaling, hazard forecasting, extreme events
Dr. Tine Nilsen
(MSc in Technology, PhD Applied Mathematics)
Paleoclimatology, climate reconstruction of the northern North Atlantic Ocean
Angelika Palarz
(Stipend, PhD student)
Russian weather extremes and synoptics 19th century
Viviana Quezada
Climate Change effects on biosphere and its influences on human health
schindler Dr. Anne Schindler
(Dipl. Mathematician, Dr. rer. nat.)
Extreme weather, regional climate modelling, synoptic meteorology
Dr. Lea Schneider
(Dr. rer nat.)
Belmont Forum and JPI-Climate, Arctic-Monsoon interactions
Tim R. Sperzel
Dr. Stefanie Talento
(MSc Mathematical Engineering, PhD in Applied Fluid Mechanics)
Belmont Forum and JPI-Climate, Arctic-Monsoon interactions
Dr. Merja Tölle
(MSc Meteorology; PhD Meteorology)
Abrupt climate change, boundary layer processes, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, carbon and energy and water cycles in marine and terrestrial ecosystems
Toreti Dr. Andrea Toreti
(MSc in Mathematics, PhD in Climate Sciences)
untenecker Dr. Johanna Untenecker
(Diploma Geography; Dr. rer. nat.)
Landnutzungsänderung von Mooren in Deutschland seit 1990‘
Volker Dr. Frank Volker
(Mineralogist and Geo Chemist, Lecturer)
Werner Dr. Johannes Werner
(Dipl.-Physicist)
Palaeoclimatology (DFG project PRIME (PRecipitation In the past Millenium in Europe))
Wild Oliver Wild
(Dipl.-Geographer)
Assistant, Permafrost in the Valais/Alps,
Public relations of the institute
Xoplaki Dr. Elena Xoplaki
(MSc Meteorology/Climatology; PhD Climate Sciences),
(deputy head)
Climate Change Mediterranean, Climate Impacts, Palaeoclimatology, Synoptic
Dr. Naiming Yuan
(BSc and PhD Atmospheric Physics)
LOEWE Large Scale Integrated Programm ‚FACE2FACE – Folgen des Klimawandels, Anpassung an den Klimawandel und Verminderung der Treibhausgas-Emissionen bis 2050‘,
Statistical climate and ecological modelling, climate and weather extremes, databank management
Huan Dr. Huan Zhang
(MSc and PhD Meteorology)
Palaeoclimatology (DFG project AFICHE, Attribution of forced and internal Chinese climate variability in the common era) and extreme weather
Mingyue Zhang
(PhD student, MSc Natural Science, Cartography and Geography information system)
paleoclimate, climate modeling, land surface change