CV
Private info:
born 1950 in Dresden/Saxony, married, two children
Academic education and professional activities:
1971-1975
Study of meteorology at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, graduated
with diploma (“On Problem of Orography in a Boundary Layer Model”)
1975-1976
Scientist at the Main Office for Climatology of the MetService of GDR
in Potsdam (studies on spatial structures of meteorological fields)
1976-1979
Head of the Meteorological Station Berlin
1979-1982
Assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin and obtaining of a
doctorate (“On Circulation in the Central European Region”)
1982-1986
Senior scientist at the Main Office for Climatology of the MetService
of GDR (studies on persistence in time series, data management)
1987-1990
Senior scientist at the Meteorological Observatory Potsdam of the
MetService of GDR (climate analysis and diagnosis, management of
research projects)
1990-1991
Member of the department ‘Research and Development’ of the German
Weather Service and guest at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg
(climate analysis and diagnosis, problems of large scale circulation in
connection with the regionalization)
Since 1991
Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(climate analysis and diagnosis, data management, development of
statistically based regional climate models, model validation)
1998
Habilitation at the Free University of Berlin (habilitation thesis:
“Climatological Extremes and Their Relation to the Circulation”)
Teaching:
1/1999-10/2003
Lecturer at the Meteorological Institute of the Free University of
Berlin with the teaching assignment “Meteorology in Special
Consideration of the Climatology”
2004-2006
Lecturer at the Department of Geography at the Humboldt-University in
Berlin
Since 2006
Professor at the Department of Geography at the Humboldt-University in
Berlin
