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Staff RD1

Name Expertise
Acosta-Michlik, Lilibeth
Integrated assessment modeling on sustainability and vulnerability in the context of climatic, economic and land use changes, using statistical (e.g. cluster, conjoint, logit), fuzzy logic, and agent-based techniques
Albrecht, Torsten Antarctic ice shelf modeling
Badeck, Franz Guest scientist (plant-atmosphere gas exchange, plant growth competition, phenology, ecophysiology)
Bauer, Eva Earth system modelling, paleo-climate change, anthropogenic climate change, changes in atmospheric radiation
Beringer, Tim
Assessment of global potential for bioenergy production; Integration of regional sustainability guardrails; Quantitative analysis of related trade-offs between land and water use
Bittermann, Klaus
Semi empirical modeling of sea level changes
Bounama, Christine Thermal evolution and habitability of terrestrial planets, Earth system under extreme conditions, science coordination
Brovkin, Victor Guest scientist (carbon cycle, Earth System modelling)
Brückmann, Yvonne
Assessment of the bioenergy and water nexus; Quantifying the impacts of a large scale bioenergy production on the global water system (LPJmL)
Calov, Reinhard Ice sheet modeling, stability of ice sheets
Cano Crespo, Ana
Ph.D. IRTG student
Coumou, Dim Development of the atmospheric component of the next-generation Earth System model CLIMBER-3
Cramer, Wolfgang Co-Chair until 2011, now guest scientist (Global biosphere dynamics, biodiversity, ecosystem services, IPCC)
Dass, Pawlok Ph.D. IMPRS student
Fader, Marianela
Crop water productivity; water footprints; virtual water trade; land use systems
Feulner, Georg Intermediate complexity earth system modelling
Ganopolski, Andrey Climate modeling, ocean circulation, abrupt climate change, glacial cycles
Gerten, Dieter
Global water scarcity and management; water and land planetary boundaries; LPJmL model coordination; integration of ethical/cultural perspectives in earth system modelling; climate impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Hansen, Gerrit
CLA Assistant
Hare, Bill Guest scientist (Explaining environmental issues to policy makers, IPCC negotiator)
Haseloff, Marianne Guest scientist (ice sheet/shelf transition processes)
Heinke, Jens
Blue-green water scarcity modelling; climate impacts beyond 2K global warming; livestock water consumption
Heyder, Ursula
Development of multidimensional environmental change metrics; Global risk assessment of biospheric change and vegetation disequilibria under climate change; Permafrost dynamics
Hoff, Holger
Water scarcity and ecosystem services under climate change (MENA and SSA regions); water-food-energy nexus; resilience
Hofmann, Matthias Physics and biogeochemistry of the ocean
Jägermeyr, Jonas
Climate impacts on agriculture; yield improvements through water management in Africa and globally; ecosystem respiration modelling using remote sensing
Kienert, Hendrik Ocean modeling
Kodeih, Silvia
Research Analyst at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
Krapp, Mario
The Role of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation and Ocean Gateways, Climate Variability
Krukenberg, Brigitta Administrative assistant RD1, personal assistant to Wolfgang Lucht and Stefan Rahmstorf
Kümmerle, Tobias Guest Scientist (Coupled human-environment systems on the land, identification of sustainable futures for such systems)
Kuhlbrodt, Till
Guest scientist (eddy-induced transports in the Southern Ocean and their parameterisation in climate models)
Langerwisch, Fanny Amazonia, carbon fluxes, land-water-interaction
Lucht, Wolfgang
Senior Scientist and acting Co-Chair of Research Domain I; Conceptualisation of environmental change metrics and trade-off analyses; blueprints for earth system analyses in the Anthropocene
Lütkemeier, Sabine Guest (Summer school director, science manager of national and international global change projects)
Martin, Maria Antarctic ice sheet modeling
Mengel, Matthias Gyre stability
Menon, Arathy Monsoon stability in past and future climate
Ostberg, Sebastian
Climate impacts upon the biosphere beyond 2K global warming; joint climate and land use change effects
Petoukhov, Vladimir Dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, theory of climate, statistical-dynamical climate modeling, climate system feedbacks, palaeoclimate
Petri, Stefan Implementing complex numerical algorithms for simulations of the Earth System
Rahmstorf, Stefan Senior Scientist and acting Co-Chair of Research Domain I; Past and present role of the oceans under climate change
Rammig, Anja Climate-induced Amazon dieback, climate extremes and European ecosystems
Robinson, Alexander Guest scientist (Ice-sheet modeling, ice-sheet evolution and stability, climate / ice-sheet interactions, abrupt climate change, probabilistic projections of future climate change)
Schaphoff, Sibyll
Permafrost and soil carbon dynamics; pattern-scaling of climate change scenarios; vegetation and carbon cycle dynamics under climate change; LPJmL model evaluation and development
Schneider von Deimling, Thomas Uncertainty in climate sensitivity, radiative forcing and climate model feedbacks, climate-state dependence of climate sensitivity, probabilistic projections of climate change
Thonicke, Kirsten Disturbance and especially fire ecology, human impacts on fire regimes, fire modelling in DGVMs, paleoclimate fire regimes, coupling fire into vegetation-climate models
Tietjen, Britta Guest scientist (Biodiversity in climate change damage cost assessments, global grassland dynamics)
Vilain, Guillaume
Land use, biofuels, and global biogeochemistry
Vohland, Katrin Guest scientist (biodiversity at species and ecosystem scale, climate change and ecosystem services)
von Bloh, Werner Geophysiological modelling, minimal models of the climate vegetation interaction, long-term evolution of the geosphere-biosphere system, habitability of earth-like planets
Walz, Ariane Guest scientist (Regional adaptation to climate change, sustainable management of ecosystem services, land use modeling, participatory scenario analysis, stakeholder processes)
Winkelmann, Ricarda Antarctic ice sheet modeling, future sea level contributions from Antarctica
Willeit, Matteo Ph.D. Greencycles II student