Bio
I’m a Junior Professor for Climate Attribution at the Leipzig Institute for Meteorology since April 2023. My background is in Geoecology and Environmental Sciences (Bayreuth & Oxford). In 2017, I defended my PhD research on “Climate extremes and their impact on ecosystem–atmosphere interactions”, which was conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and at ETH Zurich. Following my PhD, I was a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (2017-2018), and at the Climate Physics Group at ETH Zurich (2018-2023).
Research Interests
My research interests include improving our understanding of climate variability, extremes and their changes at global and regional scales. Further, my research also explores the implications of global climate change for impact-relevant variables such as the hydrological cycle at the regional scale, ecosystem water-carbon cycling, and society at large. The bulk of my research is closely linked to climate change detection and attribution. I use modern empirical-quantitative statistical and machine learning methods to address these broad research questions, integrating various climate and Earth science data streams such as observations and various kinds of climate model simulations.
Curriculum Vitae
Junior Professor for Climate Attribution
Leipzig University, Institute for Meteorology, Germany
PostDoc and Senior Scientist
Climate Physics Group, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Researcher
Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research
PhD Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry