Curriculum vitae
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Kirsten Thonicke Born: 14 June 1972 Nationality: German |
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Academic Preparation
PhD (Dr. rer.nat.) in Geoecology:
Institute for Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany, April 2003
Diplom in Physical Geography:
Institute for Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany, May 1997
Professional experience
Speaker of Flagship project "Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change" in Research Domain 1
Senior scientist, since 01/2008:
Potsdam-Institute
for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- Scientific coordination in EU-FP7 fire project “FUME” - Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (from Jan 2010): investigating impact of climate extremes on fire regimes and vegetation vulnerability
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"TIPI" - Tipping Point Interactions in the Earth System (until Dec 2010): coupling of dynamic vegetation and fire models in Earth System Models of intermediate complexity
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Coupling dynamic vegetation and fire into land surface schemes of an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity to investigate the role of fire and terrestrial vegetation in tipping points
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Pilot study on calculating fire-related emissions in Germany
Participation in European fire networks; Participation in EU-FP6 fire IP “PARADOX” (until Feb 2010)
Post-doctoral
position, 06/2007 - 12/2007:
Potsdam-Institute
for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- Vulnerability of fire in Europe, the influence of humans on wildfires
Marie-Curie-Fellow,
04/2005 – 05/2007:
School
of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
- Coupling of mechanistic global fire models in coupled climate-vegetation models
- Palaeo-climate application of dynamic vegetation-fire model LPJ-SPITFIRE
Project: Interactions between fire, biosphere and atmosphere in a coupled vegetation-climate system (IFBACC)
Post-doctoral
position, 02/2003- 11/2004:
Global
Ecology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Assess and improve the realism of the LPJ representation of fire in European and global natural ecosystems
- Estimate fire-related, climate-sensitive emissions from biomass burning under paleo- and contemporary climate conditions.
Project: EU-FP5 projects ATEAM and COCO (Measuring CO2 from space exploiting planned missions 2001-2004).
PhD student,
07/1997-01/2003:
Potsdam-Institute
for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- Development and verification of fire models for their implementation into Dynamic Global Vegetation models
Honours and awards
Award for the best Dissertation in 2003/2004, Society of Friends and Promoters of the Potsdam-Institute, Potsdam, Germany, Nov. 2004.
Michelson Award for the best dissertation, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 2003
Nominated for Young Researcher Award of the Leibniz Association, Nov. 2003
