Team
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Prof. Juerg Luterbacher, PhD Professor Luterbacher is now Director Science and Innovation and Chief Scientist at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36210 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36219 |
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Andrea Goetzl Office/Secretariat |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36211 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36219 Andrea.Goetzl Fri morning |
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Dr. Elena Xoplaki (MSc Meteorology/Climatology; PhD Climate Sciences), (deputy head) Climate Change Mediterranean, Climate Impacts, Palaeoclimatology, Synoptic |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36212 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36219 Elena.Xoplaki |
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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 |
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+49 (0) 611 - 6939 200 |
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Dr. Muralidhar Adakudlu (Postdoc) Climate Modelling, Climate Change, Programming, Data analysis |
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0641-99 12702 Muralidhar.Adakudlu |
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Dr. Florian Ellsäßer (Postdoc) Compound Extreme Events, Process - based Crop Modelling, Hydrological Modelling, Bias-Correction & Downscaling, Climate Change, Water Usage of Plants |
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0641-99 12780 Florian.Ellsaesser |
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Dr. Frank Volker (Mineralogist and Geo Chemist, Lecturer) |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36253 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36259 Frank.Volker Mon 12:45 - 13:45 and by Appointment |
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Eva Hartmann (PhD student, MSc Meteorology) Paleoclimatology, Climate Modelling, Climate Variability in the Mediterranean |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36215 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36219 Eva.Hartmann |
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Lorine Behr (PhD student, MSc Climate and Environmental Change) Compound extremes in the Mediterranean, ocean dynamics, climate modelling, climate change impacts |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12780 Lorine.Behr |
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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 |
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+49 (0) 641-99 36214, 12780 Niklas.Luther |
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Mingyue Zhang (PhD student, MSc Natural Science, Cartography and Geography information system) paleoclimate, climate modeling, land surface change |
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Johannes Damster (Junior Assistant) |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36214 |
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Moritz Haupt (Junior Assistant) |
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Franca Hettich (Junior Assistant) |
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Moritz Jäger (Junior Assistant) |
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Celine Mueller (Junior Assistant) |
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Previous group members
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Dr. Stella Dafka (MSc Meteorology; Dr. rer. nat.) Renewables, windmodelling, wind power generation in the Aegean area (Greece) |
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Prof. Dr. Jianping Duan (Humboldt stipendiary) Paleoclimatology, past and current extreme climate events in proxies in Asia |
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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 |
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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’) |
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Dr. Martin Ivanov |
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Dr. Tine Nilsen (MSc in Technology, PhD Applied Mathematics) Paleoclimatology, climate reconstruction of the northern North Atlantic Ocean |
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Angelika Palarz (Stipend, PhD student) Russian weather extremes and synoptics 19th century |
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Dr. Anne Schindler (Dipl. Mathematician, Dr. rer. nat.) Extreme weather, regional climate modelling, synoptic meteorology |
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Dr. Lea Schneider (Dr. rer nat.) Belmont Forum and JPI-Climate, Arctic-Monsoon interactions |
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Tim R. Sperzel |
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Dr. Stefanie Talento (MSc Mathematical Engineering, PhD in Applied Fluid Mechanics) Belmont Forum and JPI-Climate, Arctic-Monsoon interactions |
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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 |
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Dr. Andrea Toreti (MSc in Mathematics, PhD in Climate Sciences) |
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Dr. Johanna Untenecker (Diploma Geography; Dr. rer. nat.) Landnutzungsänderung von Mooren in Deutschland seit 1990‘ |
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Dr. Johannes Werner (Dipl.-Physicist) Palaeoclimatology (DFG project PRIME (PRecipitation In the past Millenium in Europe)) |
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Oliver Wild (Dipl.-Geographer) Assistant, Permafrost in the Valais/Alps, Public relations of the institute |
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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 |
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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 |