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PhD candidates

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Theme

Supervisor at PIK
University
Valentin Aich 6/2011 needs to be specified F. Hattermann Uni Potsdam
Markus Böttle 7/2009
The economics of adaptation:  Derivation of a standardised assessment functions for damages and adaptation costs J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Yvonne Brückmann 3/2010
Water Constraints on Global Bioenergy Production D. Gerten
W. Lucht
HU Berlin
Matthias Büchner
2008 High resolution climate scenarios over East Africa for climate impact assessment studies F.W. Gerstengarbe
FU Berlin
Tobias Conradt
2005 Assessing global and regional change impacts on hydrology in the Elbe River basin. An investigation with multi-level analyses and distributed hydrological modelling integrating remotely sensed data
F. Wechsung
Uni Potsdam
Luis Costa
2008 Climate Change impacts and sea-level rise: Assessing risk and potential economic consequences J. Kropp/
S. Stoll-Kleemann
Uni Potsdam
Samuel Fournet
2/2011
Climate change and river basin management in Africa
F. Hattermann
Uni Potsdam
Martin Gutsch
2005 Modellgestützte Analyse von Eichen-Kiefern-Mischbeständen in Brandenburg mit Berücksichtigung der Wurzeltiefe und Wurzelverteilung P. Lasch Uni Potsdam
Jens Heinke
2007 Quantification of factors influencing the global water cycle in the 21st century D. Gerten
W. Lucht
HU Berlin
Cornelia Hesse
2005 Integrated water quality modelling in meso- to large scale river basins under uncertainty V. Krysanova Uni Potsdam
Ursula Heyder
2006 Transitions of the biosphere under climate change - a global modelling study W. Lucht
Uni Potsdam
Holger Hoff
2008 Climate change effects upon ecosystem services in the Mediterranean region D. Gerten,
W. Cramer
Uni Potsdam
Anne Holsten 2008 Sektorale Klimawirkungsanalyse ausgewählter Regionen/Sectoral Climate Impact Assessment of Selected Regions J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Shaochun Huang 2008 Assessment of spatial-temporal dynamics of water fluxes in Germany under climate change (submitted Dec11)
V. Krysanova Uni Potsdam
Oleksandr Kit
4/2009 Climate change impacts and adaptation measures for Hyderabad as a megacity of tomorrow W. Lucht HU Berlin
Cornelius Laaser 1/2010
Fostering effectiveness of interactions between policy and science communities. Applying knowledge brokering instruments (role playing games, group model building, scenario planning) in the context of climate change impacts at the regional water management level V. Krysanova Uni Hamburg
Friedemann Lembcke
2008 Kalkül versus Katastrophe: Die Kommunikation des Klimawandels. (defense: 8 Feb 12)
F.W. Gerstengarbe
TU Berlin
Tabea Lissner 2008
Integrated Analysis of impact-dependent parameters for adaptation J. Kropp HU Berlin
Julia Lutz 5/2010
Regional climate modelling in the Mediterranean Basin using the statistical regional climate model STAR F.W. Gerstengarbe HU Berlin
Christoph Menz
8/2009
Regional climate modelling for Asia using CCLM and STAR
F.W. Gerstengarbe HU Berlin
Jacob Möhring 3/2010
Economic estimation of adaptation options to climate and socioeconomic change in the Guanting Basin in the Peoples Republic of China with focus on agriculture and forestry. F. Wechsung
V. Hartje (TUB)
TU Berlin
Mady Olonscheck
2010
A country comparison of the sectoral energy consumption and the related CO2 emissions. J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Sebastian Ostberg 2/2010
Joint climate and land use change effects on the biosphere W. Lucht
D. Gerten
HU Berlin
Christian Pape
2009 Formalising adaptation: defining efficiency measures for action J. Kropp Uni
Prajal Pradhan 2009
Ecosystem services in marginal areas and climate extremes J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Boris Prahl
7/2009
Assessing climate-change-induced trends in insurance risks J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Christopher Reyer
8/2009
Sustainable forest productivity under global change: Analysis of model results and uncertainties, drivers of change, and adaptation options. P. Lasch
W. Lucht
HU Berlin
Olivia Roithmeier
12/2009 Klimawirkungsanalyse ausgewählter Umweltsektoren auf regionaler Ebene/
Climate change impact assessment of selected environmental sectors on regional scale
J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Sibyll Schaphoff
2006 Global analysis of interannual carbon flux variability; Pattern-scaling of climate change scenarios; Analysis of vegetation dynamics under climate change; LPJmL evaluation and development including biomass validation D. Gerten
W. Lucht
Uni Potsdam
Sebastian Schubert
2009 Modelling of Urban Surfaces in the COSMO/CLM model F.W. Gerstengarbe FU Berlin
Judith Stagl 9/2010
Climate change and nature reserves
F. Hattermann Uni Potsdam
Till Sterzel
2008 Analysis of vulnerability patterns and their integration into a spatially explicit web platform for adaptation information J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Bastian Stößel 5/2010
Statistische Analyse und Modellierung des klimaabhängigen Auftretens von Schaderreger und Krankheiten in der landwirtschaftlichen Pflanzenproduktion
F. Wechsung
B. Freier (JKI)
Uni
Julia Tecklenburg 7/2010
Climate change in subsaharian Africa
F. Hattermann TU Braunschweig
Vera Tekken 2007
Climate Change and adaptation: Regional taxonomy of physical and socioeconomic pressures in Mediterranean North East Morocco (moved to Uni Greifswald)
J. Kropp/ S. Stoll-Kleemann
Uni Greifswald
Tobias Weiss 2009
Usage of web and geospatial web technologies for efficient decision support J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Jana Werg 2010
Urban dwellers, natural hazards and climate change
- Cognitive, economic and governance indicators for assessing vulnerabilities and building resilient cities
J. Kropp HU Berlin
Martin Wodinski
2009
Perspektiven der Klimaaänderung bis 2060 für den Weinbau in Deutschland F.W. Gerstengarbe FU Berlin
Michel Wortmann 1/2012 needs to be specified V. Krysanova University London

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PhD theses - completed / abgeschlossene Promotionen

Name Year
ThemeSupervisor University
Diana Sietz 9 Dec 2011 Dryland vulnerability - Typical patterns and dynamics in support of vulnerability reduction efforts J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
Marianela Fader 8 Dec 2011 Flows of virtual land and water through global trade of agricultural products

W. Cramer/
W. Lucht

Uni Potsdam
Tim Beringer 19 Oct 2011 Earth System Dynamics in the Anthropocene: Modelling Key Processes of Climate-Human Interactions in the Terrestrial Biosphere
defense on 19 Oct 2011
W. Lucht Humboldt Uni Berlin
Stefan Liersch Feb 2011 Vulnerability assessment and scenario design R. Seppelt
Uni Halle
Veronika Huber 2010 (at IGB), Modelling seasonal plankton development in lakes under climate change (Ph.D., in  AQUASHIFT priority program) D. Gerten TU Berlin
Stefanie Rost
2009 Assessment of global green, blue and virtual water fluxes (Ph.D., in GREENWATER project) D. Gerten Uni Potsdam
Martin Wattenbach 2008 The hydrological effects of forest area and species composition in a changing landscape a regional environmental impact assessment in the federal state of Brandenburg W. Cramer Uni Potsdam
Cornelia Fürstenau
2008
The impact of silvicultural strategies and climate change on carbon sequestration and other forest ecosystem functions
P. Lasch Uni Potsdam
R. Qara-Fallah
2008
Auswirkungen von Klimaänderungen auf hydrometeorologisch relevante Parameter
F.W. Gerstengarbe Uni Rostock
Joachim Rock
2008
Klimaschutz und Kohlenstoff in Holz - Vergleich verschiedener Strategien
P. Lasch Uni Potsdam
Birgit Schröder
2008 Spatial and temporal dynamics of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Assimilation of two decades of optical satellite data into a process-based global vegetation model W.Lucht Uni Potsdam
Diana Reckien
2007
Intraregional migration in old industrialised regions– Qualitative Modelling of household location decisions as an input to policy and plan making in Leipzig/Germany and Wirral/Liverpool/UK (PhD in Geography)
J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
M. Kallache 2007 Trends and Extreme Values of River Discharge Time Series (PhD in Physics) J. Kropp Uni Potsdam
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