Team | University of Tübingen

Team of the working group climatology and the biosphere

Prof. Dr. Kira Rehfeld

Professor of Climatology and the Biosphere and leader of the research group.

Dr. Markus Maisch

coordinates the Climatology lab activities and investigates water isotope variability in extreme precipitation.

Postdocs

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Dr. Jean-Philippe 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. Sebastian Franz

works in the ICAWaR project on the analysis and development of sustainable water resource management.

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Dr. Helene Hoffmann

analyzes Antarctic ice cores from a high-resolution perspective to understand palaeoclimate variability.

PD Dr. Melanie Nagel

leads the research project ‘ICAWaR - Improving climate adaptation policies for water resilience’ and coordinates the project ‘Carbon emission information for local climate action’ (in Heidelberg).

Dr. Nabeela Sadaf

works on modelling climate variability (on temporary leave).

Dr. Yana Savytska

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

PhD Students

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Moritz Adam, M.Sc.

investigates whether and how effects of carbon dioxide removal on the Earth system and land use interact.

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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

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Yingxin Li, M.Sc.

explores dynamical origins of weather extremes such as heat waves and heavy precipitation in the middle latitudes.

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Muriel Racky, M.Sc.

investigates how choices in climate model tuning procedures impact the resulting climatologies.

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Arya Samanta, M.Sc.

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

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Elisa Ziegler, M.Sc.

investigates changes in surface climate variability under warming and their dependence on factors such as background state or temporal and spatial scales.

Research assistants

Björn Riebandt, M.Sc.

investigates climate-biosphere compound extremes.

Guests

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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. Nils Weitzel

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

Students and Student Assistants

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Fifame Edwige Akpoly, M.Sc.

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

Jonas Babel

build an automated rain water sampler for collecting precipitation samples at a high resolution. In his bachelor thesis, he compares rainwater isotopes on a hourly, daily, weekly and monthly sampling interval.

Tian Gao, B.Sc.

studies the representation of the differences of C3 and C4 grasses in vegetation models, their differences in the interaction with climate, and how well the evolution of these grasses can be investigated using models.

Hana Jeram

analyzes isotopes in rainwater for her bachelor's thesis using back trajectories to study extreme events, their dynamics, and influence on isotopy.

Mereth Kleikamp

is looking into the influence of environmental parameters on solar energy efficiency and hydrogen production.

Katja Labermeyer, B.Sc.

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

Desirée Lo Triglia, B.Sc.

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

Tom Schürmann, B.Sc.

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

Emilia Weißenborn

synthesizes existing studies on impacts of medium to large scale solar farms from remote sensing data on temperature.

Alumni

Ari Heidtmann, B.Sc. Environmental Science (2024)

Frederik Kolb, B.Sc. Geoecology (2024)

Theresa Rieger, B.Sc. Environmental Science (2024)

Faith Forry, M.Sc. Applied and Environmental Geoscience (2024), co-supervision with Dr. Steffen Seitz

Ratchanah Vejayan, M.Sc. Applied and Environmental Geoscience (2024)

Yasmin Ruf, B.Sc. Geographie (2024), co-supervision with Prof. Yvonne Oelmann

Felix Ewen, B.Sc. Environmental Science (2024)

Fabian Launer, student assistant (2024)

Johannes Grabenstein, M.Sc. Physics (2023)

Irene Trombini, M.Sc. Physics (2023), now PhD student at the University of Bologna (Italy)

Nina van Hasz, B.Sc. Geoecology (2023)

Daniele Voglis, M.Sc. Physics (2023)

Magdalena Ritzau, M.Sc. Applied Environmental Geoscience (2023)

Paola Serrano Alemán, internship (2023)

Laura Fink, M.Sc. Physics (2023)

Jana Mayer, student assistant (2023)

Stephan Sprinz, B.Sc. Physics (2023)

Mathurin Choblet, M.Sc. Physics (2023), now PhD student at the University of Liège (Belgium)

Dr. Janica C. Bühler, PhD student (2023), now at BMWK

Beatrice Ellerhoff, PhD student (2023), currently at the German Weather Service (DWD)

Jakob Kruse, Wiss. Mitarbeiter (2023)

Felix Pollak, MSc. Physics (2023), now a PhD student at the Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

Leoni Rath, MSc. Physics (2023)

Sonja Spälter, BSc. Environmental Sciences (2023)

Mitja Ziegler, BSc. Environmental Sciences (2023)

Dr. Mathieu Casado, Postdoc (2021-2022), currently CNRS researcher at LSCE (France)

Dr. Olga Erokhina, Postdoc (2021-2022)

Laura Braschoß, MSc. Physics (2022)

Jonathan Wider, MSc. Physics (2022), co-supervision with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Köthe, IWR, Heidelberg, Germany

Patrizia Schoch, MSc. Physics (2022), now PhD student at Leipzig University (Germany)

Maybritt Schillinger, MSc. Mathematics (2022), now PhD student at ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

Jonah Mende, BSc. Phyics (2022)

Franka Neumann, BSc. Physics (2022)

Eva Lüdke, BSc. Geoecology (2022)

Anna Sommani, MSc. Physics (2021), now PhD student at Heidelberg University (Germany)

Christian Wirths, M.Sc. Physics (2021), now PhD student at the University of Bern (Switzerland)

Oliver Mehling, M.Sc. Physics (2021), now PhD student at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

Claudia Schiavini, (2021), Erasmus-internship in STACY project

Maximilian May, MSc. Physics (2021), now PhD student at Heidelberg University (Germany)

Julian Schäfer, MSc. Geoarchaeology (2021)

Yannick Heiser, BSc. Physics (2021)

Simon Rosenkranz (2020), internship in STACY project

Shirin Ermis, BSc. Physics (2020), now PhD student at the University of Oxford (UK)

Nadine Theisen, BSc. Physics (2020), co-supervision with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Köthe, IWR, Heidelberg, Germany

Moritz Kirschner, MSc. Physics (2020)

Carla Roesch, MSc. Physics (2020), now PhD student at the University of Edinburgh (UK)

Benjamin Schmiedel, BSc. Physics (2019) results and new developments here