Prof. Dr. Kira Rehfeld

Professor of Climatology and the Biosphere and leader of the Emmy Noether group STACY.

Dr. Markus Maisch

heads the working group's laboratory and conducts research on isotopic signatures during extreme precipitation events and on experimental approaches to CO₂ removal from the atmosphere.

Dr. Jean-Phillipe Baudouin

researches climate variability during the last glacial cycle in the PalMod project.

Dr. Julia Brugger

explores the Earth system of the past using climate and vegetation models with the aim of better understanding the future Earth system.

Dr. Helene Hoffmann

researches paleoclimate using ice cores, which she analyzes with Laser ablation measurements.

Dr. Valdir F. Novello

works on isotopes, paleoclimate, speleothems, and other cave studies. Other research interests are the South American Monsoon, archeology, and paleomagnetism.

Dr. Nabeela Sadaf 

works on the linkage of variability across different timescales during the Deglaciation using climate model simulations.

Dr. Yana Savytska

works on atmospheric CO₂ monitoring and the impact of vegetation variability on its level.

Dr. Nils Weitzel

works on climate and vegetation variability during the last glacial cycle.

Moritz Adam, M.Sc.

researches how effects of carbon dioxide removal on the Earth system and land use decisions could interact.

Daniel Boateng, M.Sc.

employs isotope-enabled climate models to study paleoenvironmental changes, including monsoon dynamics and past surface elevation and machine learning to downscale future climate projections to the regional scale

Yingxin Li, M.Sc.

researches weather extremes such as heat waves and heavy precipitation in the middle latitudes.

Arya Samanta, M.Sc.

models the climatic consequences of large-scale surface modifications for energy harvest and carbon dioxide removal.

Elisa Ziegler, M.Sc.

researches climate variability under warming and its dependence on factors such as background state or temporal and spatial scales.

Laura Braschoß, M.Sc.

researches the state-dependency of hydroclimate changes.

Muriel Racky, M.Sc.

investigates how choices in climate model tuning procedures impact the resulting climatologies, in particular for the last deglaciation.

researches climate-biosphere compound extremes.

Fifame Edwige Akpoly, M.Sc.

works on rainfall forecasting in the Sahel region using Machine Learning.

is building an automated rain water sampler for collecting precipitation samples at a high resolution. He will compare rainwater isotopes on a hourly, daily, weekly and monthly sampling interval in his bachelor thesis.

is a bachelor student investingating the role of moss in soil carbon storage and its response to climate change. Co-supervised by Steffen Seitz.

is a bachelor student looking into the global C-sequestration potential of forested area, searching for available data and analyzing agroforestry as a future mitigation strategy.

is a bachelor student working on the emulation of climate-CO₂-vegetation relationships.

investigates effects of volcanic variability on carbon stocks with a focus on the ocean and future climate change.

works as a research assistant on the cave monitoring in the Swabian alps.

is a student assistant working on the weather station.

is a student assistant working on oxygen isotopes in sea ice.

is a master student researching the interplay between biosphere variability and emission budgets.

is a master student working on paleoclimate reconstruction with stalagmites from Mid-west Brazil.

is a student assistant working on the weather station.