Team
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Prof. Juerg Luterbacher, PhD |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36210 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36219 juerg.luterbacher |
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NN Office/Secretariat |
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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36211, 36201 +49 (0) 641 - 99 36219, 36209 klimageographie Mon - Fri 10.00-14.00 |
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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. Yanet Díaz Esteban (PostDoc) Research areas: Climate variability and change, Projection of risks of extreme events, Machine learning, Synoptic climatology |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12704 Yanet.Diaz-Esteban |
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Dr. Edgar Espitia (PostDoc) Hydrological Modelling, Water Quality, Hydrometeorology |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12710 Edgar.Espitia-Sarmiento Mon-Fri 8:30-17:30 |
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Dr. Fatemeh Heidari Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analysis, Deep Learning Techniques, Developing Machine Learning Models |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12710 Fatemeh.Heidari |
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Dr. Qing Lin (PostDoc) Machine learning models, climate downscaling, hazard forecasting, extreme events |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12710 +49 (0) 641-99 12709 Qing.Lin |
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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 |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12780 Odysseas.Vlachopoulos |
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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) Concurrent extremes, marine heatwaves, 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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Viviana Quezada Climate Change effects on biosphere and its influences on human health |
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+49 (0) 641-99 12710 Viviana.Quezada-Dominguez |
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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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+49 (0) 641 - 99 36215 |
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Moritz Haupt (Junior Assistant) |
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Moritz.Haupt |
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Céline Müller (Junior Assistant) |
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Muellegb |
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Anne Tuchscherer (Junior Assistant) |
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Anne.Asha.Tuchscherer |
Previous group members
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Dr. Muralidhar Adakudlu (Postdoc) Climate Modelling, Climate Change, Programming, Data analysis |
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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. 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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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 |