Mahé Perrette Berlin, Germany mahe.perrette@pik-potsdam.de | Sex: male Nationality: French Date of Birth: 15th July 1986 |
2010 - present | PhD work Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Probabilistic projections of future sea level rise at various temporal and spatial scales. |
2008 - 2009 | Master of Science in Oceanography University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre (NOCS), UK Thesis: “Arctic phytoplankton blooms from satellites” (as a double-degree program with Ecole Centrale de Lyon) |
2005 - 2007 | Master in Engineering Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France |
2003 - 2005 | Undergraduate in Lycée Pierre de Fermat, Toulouse, France Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles in mathematics and physics. |
2003 | Baccalauréat with major in maths and physics, Toulouse, France (age 17) |
2010 - present | Research assistant at PIK |
(since 2015) | Modelling of ocean biogeochemistry during ice age termination (PalMOD project) |
(2014 - 2015) | Modelling of the Greenland ice sheet and outlet glaciers system (GREENRISE project) |
(2010 - 2013) | Development of global and regional sea level emulators in order to inform negotiators in real time during climate talks (PREVENT and SURVIVE projects, in the PRIMAP group) |
October 2007 - June 2008 | Research Internship, Mercator Océan, Toulouse, France Data assimilation to correct air-sea fluxes in an ocean model. |
June - August 2007 | Research Internship, University of Tohoku, Sendai, Japan Numerical simulations for artificial, energy-neutral pumping of deep, nutrient-rich water to enhance surface ecosystem (Laputa Project). |
April, 2016 | Anthropocene Curriculum | Campus: the Technosphere Issue One-week interdisciplinary seminar at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) involving researchers and artists from various fields, organized together with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. |
Winter 2013 - 2014 | Undergraduate teaching (tutorials) Prof. S. Rahmstorf’s Climate History lecture, University of Potsdam |
2012 - 2014 | Co-author in World Bank reports series “Turn Down the Heat” 1, 2 and 3 Capacity building workshop with local World Bank scientists (March 12th, 2014, PIK) |
2013 | Contributing author to IPCC AR5 WG1 sea level chapter (13). |
Nov - Dec 2010 and 2011 | Scientific consultant for Climate Analytics UNFCCC climate negotiations COP16 (Cancún, Mexico, 2010) and COP17 (Durban, South Africa, 2011). http://www.nature.com/news/the-science-behind-the-durban-talks-1.9554 |
- | Climate science talks in public events Goethe Institut in Ramallah and Nablus (West Bank, January 2012) |
Programming | Python (advanced), Matlab (good), R (basic), Fortran 2003 (advanced), C++ (basic), bash (good), ViM (good), Latex Web development (basic): javascript / jquery, d3 (client), python-flask (server) More on github.com/perrette. |
Languages | French (native speaker) English (fluent) German (fluent) Italian (basic) |