Disputations of all PIK doctoral researchers - click here
| Name | Date | Theme | Supervisor at PIK | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick von Jeetze |
upcoming |
H. Lotze-Campen, A. Popp |
HU Berlin | |
| Felicitas Beier |
upcoming |
H. Lotze-Campen, A. Popp |
HU Berlin | |
| Shafinaz Sobhan |
19.12.2025 |
Impact of a behaviour change intervention in rural Bangladesh on household-level food hygiene practices and microbial contamination of complementary foods |
S. Gabrysch |
Charité Berlin |
| Edna Molina Bacca |
08.12.2025 |
The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Adapting Crop Production to Global Change |
H. Lotze-Campen |
HU Berlin |
| Stephen Wirth |
02.07.2025 |
The role of plant functiona diversity in productivity and soil organic carbon stocks of managed grasslands: advcancements using a dynamic global vegetation model |
S. Rolinski |
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| Paula Romanovska |
10.07.2024 |
Harnessing climate data to assess, anticipate and attribute climate impacts on agriculture |
C. Gornott |
Uni Kassel |
| Carlos Fernández Palomino |
30.08.2024 |
Understanding Hydrological Dynamics in the Tropical Andes of Peru and Ecuador and Their Responses to Climate Change |
F. Hattermann |
Uni Potsdam |
| Gina Maskell |
26.04.2024 |
On the Use of Remote Sensing and Household Data to Track Progress on Autonomous Adaptation: Evidence in a Coffee Farming System |
C. Gornott |
Uni Kassel |
| Yunfei Li |
09.01.2024 |
On the influence of density and morphology on the Urban Heat Island intensity |
J. Kropp |
Uni Potsdam |
| Julian Röckert |
16.10.2023 |
Long-Term Consequences of Extreme Weather Events for Households in Developing Countries: The Mongolian Case |
K. Krähnert |
Ruhr-Universtität Bochum |
| Lukas Mogge |
16.10.2023 |
Living with climate risks: Exposure to extreme weather events and household adaptation in rural Mongolia |
K. Krähnert |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Svenja Fluhrer | 11.07.2023 | Household adaptation to climate change |
K. Krähnert |
Ruhr-Uni Bochum |
| Ponraj Arumugam | 27.03.2023 | Gridded crop yield modelling for climate risk transfer and assessing adapation strategies | Uni Kassel | |
| Lisa Murken | 10.02.2023 | Land tenure in a changing climate | Uni Kassel | |
| Tobias Herzfeld | 23.11.2022 | Modeling the impact of agricultural management practices on global soil degradation | HU Berlin | |
| Rahel Laudien | 02.09.2022 | Seasonal forecasting of crop yields to support agricultural risk management and the design of crop insurances in Tanzania | HU Berlin | |
| Vera Porwollik | 06.07.2022 | Patterns of Global Crop Management Systems for Assessment of Global Change | HU Berlin | |
| Linda Krummenauer |
16.06.2022 | A global assessment of heat-mortality relationships impacting urban population | Uni Potsdam | |
| David Milan Landholm Haight | 01.09.2021 | Cross-scale drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and local solutions for climate change mitigation |
J. Kropp |
HU Berlin |
| Jens Heinke | 27.10.2020 | Water Resources in the Anthropocene Assessing the impact of climate change on freshwater supply and the scope for adaption in the livestock sector |
W. Lucht |
HU Berlin |
| Tobias Pilz | 15.09.2020 | Pursuing the understanding of uncertainties in hydrological modelling |
A. Bronstert, S. Reich, T. Francke |
Potsdam University |
| Femke Lutz |
18.03.2020 | Tilling the earth: modelling global N2O emissions caused by tillage | Wageningen University | |
| Sara Minoli | 14.02.2020 | Managing phenology for agronomic adaptation of global cropping systems to climate change | HU Berlin | |
| Wei Weng | 10.12.2019 | Local land use change and its relevance for small-scale moisture recycling in Colombian and Peruvian Amazon. | HU Berlin | |
| Xiaoxi Wang |
18.04.2019 | Understanding Implications of Key Economic Factors for Land Dynamics and Food Systems in a Changing World | HU Berlin |
|
| Cornelia Hesse | 08.11.2018 | Integrated water quality modelling in meso- to large scale river basins under uncertainty |
V. Krysanova |
Uni Potsdam |
| Stefanie Lynn Becker | 04.07.2018 | From regimes to grassroots innovations: a framework for understanding the causes and barriers to community-based initiatives and their impacts on transitions |
J. Kropp |
Potsdam University |
| Anastasia Lobanova | 17.05.2018 | Assessment of potential impacts of higher-end climate scenarios on hydrological processes and water related sectors in a number of representative European river basins | TU Berlin | |
| Christoph Gornott | 16.02.2018 | Assessment of regional crop yields in Tanzania comparing different approaches | HU Berlin | |
| Michel Wortmann | 26.01.2018 | Climate impact assessment of high-mountain, glacier melt dominated catchments using the Soil and Water Integrated Model (SWIM): the Tarim tributaries, NW China | University College London, UK (UCL) | |
| Bernhard Schauberger | 24.01.2018 | Improving crop models with respect to yield variability and climate extremes as a precondition for food security assessments | HU Berlin | |
| Christin Meyer |
20.12.2017 | Climate Change and Sustainable Risk Management for Agriculture - Building business resilience through adaptation. The Case Study of the 'Mount Hesse' farm in Australia | Uni Hamburg | |
| Ramana Venkata Gudipudi | 08.12.2017 | Cities and Global Sustainability: Insights from emission and ecological efficiency |
J. Kropp |
Uni Potsdam |
| Bin Zhou | 20.11.2017 | On the assessment of surface urban heat island: size, urban form, and seasonality |
J. Kropp |
Uni Potsdam |
| Isabelle Weindl | 16.10.2017 | Livestock futures in a changing world: Modelling interactions between animal agriculture and the environment |
H. Lotze-Campen |
HU Berlin |
| Julia Lutz | 06.04.2017 | Improvements and application of the STatistical Analogue Resampling Scheme STARS | University of Bonn | |
| Boris Prahl | 20.01.2017 | On Damage Functions for the Estimation of Storm Loss and their Generalization for Climate-Related Hazards | FU Berlin | |
| Judith Stagl | 12.01.2017 | Uni Potsdam | ||
| Michael Roers |
14.10.2016 | Methoden zur Dynamisierung von Klimafolgenanalysen im Elbegebiet - Aktualisierung von Szenarienstudien zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und fortlaufende Überprüfung ökohydrologischer Modellergebnisse |
Uni Potsdam | |
| Mady Olonscheck | 30.09.2016 | Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand | Uni Potsdam | |
| Martin Gutsch | 11.07.2016 | Modellgestützte Analyse von Eichen-Kiefern-Mischbeständen in Brandenburg mit Berücksichtigung der Wurzeltiefe und Wurzelverteilung |
P. Lasch-Born / J. Kropp |
Uni Potsdam |
| Markus Böttle |
27.04.2016 | Coastal Floods in View of Sea Level Rise: Assessing Damage Costs and Adaptation Measures | Uni Potsdam | |
| Valentin Aich |
15.04.2016 | Floods in the Niger River Basin in the face of Global Change - Analysis, Attribution, Projections |
F. Hattermann/ Axel Bronstert |
Uni Potsdam |
| Christoph Menz |
17.03.2016 | Regionale Klimamodellierung in Ostasien: Ein Vergleich von statistischen und dynamischen Modellierungsansatz |
F.-W. Gerstengarbe |
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M. |
| Bastian Stößel |
12.11.2015 | Weather-disease relationships and future disease potential of leaf rust and powdery mildew in Saxony-Anhalt | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | |
| Stefan Lange |
13.10.2015 | HU Berlin | ||
| Prajal Pradhan | 05.05.2015 | Uni Potsdam | ||
| Benjamin Bodirsky | 12.11.2014 |
O. Edenhofer/ H. Lotze-Campen / A. Popp |
TU Berlin | |
| Doreen Burdack | 10.06.2014 | Water Management Policies and its Impacts on Irrigated Crop Production in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia |
H. Lotze-Campen |
Uni Potsdam |
| Tabea Lissner | 12.06.2014 | Limitations to human livelihoods and well-being in the context of climate change |
J. Kropp/ |
Humboldt University |
| Oleksandr Kit | 13.02.2014 | Automated identification of slums in Hyderabad using high resolution satellite imagery | W. Lucht | Humboldt University |
| Luís Costa | 29.10.2013 | Climate change adaptation and its costs in a carbon constrained world | J. Kropp / S. Stoll-Kleemann |
University of Greifswald |
| Vera Tekken | 11.9.2013 | Socio-economic vulnerability to climate change: a regional assessment in the context of water stress and tourism development in north-eastern Morocco | S. Stoll-Kleemann | University of Greifswald |
| Sebastian Schubert | 12.7.2013 | Development and evaluation of a double-canyon urban canopy scheme, and estimation of urban heat island mitigation effects | F.-W. Gerstengarbe | Free University Berlin |
| Anne Holsten | 04.07.2013 | Climate change vulnerability assessments in the regional context | J. Kropp | Uni Potsdam |
| Tobias Conradt | 06.05.2013 | Challenges of regional hydrological modelling in the Elbe River basin Investigations about model fidelity on sub-catchment level |
A. Bronstert/ |
Uni Potsdam |
| Christopher Reyer | 25.04.2013 | The cascade of uncertainty in modeling forest ecosystem responses to environmental change and the challenge of sustainable resource management | W. Lucht/ P. Lasch |
HU Berlin |
| Katharina Waha | 12.02.2013 | Application of a global vegetation model (LPJmL) for assessing climate change impacts on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa | W. Cramer | Uni Potsdam |
| Christoph Schmitz | 12.12.2012 | H. Lotze-Campen | HU Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture | |
| Johannes Gütschow | 09.11.2012 | Quantum information processing with Clifford quantum cellular automata | Reinhard Werner (Uni Hannover) | Leibniz Universität Hannover |
| Sabrina Hempel | 01.10.2012 | Deciphering gene regulation from time series data | J. Kurths | HU Berlin |
| Pia Gottschalk | 31.05.2012 | Modelling soil organic carbon dynamics under land use and climate change | Prof. Pete and Dr. Jo Smith |
University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences |
| Shaochun Huang | 02.05.2012 | Modelling of environmental change impacts on water resources and hydrological extremes in Germany | A. Bronstert | Uni Potsdam |
| Friedemann Lembcke | 08.02.2012 | Kalkül versus Katastrophe: Die Kommunikation des Klimawandels | F.-W. Gerstengarbe | TU Berlin |
| Diana Sietz | 09.12.2011 | Dryland vulnerability - Typical patterns and dynamics in support of vulnerability reduction efforts | J. Kropp | Uni Potsdam |
| Marianela Fader | 08.12.2011 | Flows of virtual land and water through global trade of agricultural products |
W. Cramer/ |
Uni Potsdam |
| Tim Beringer | 19.10.2011 | Earth System Dynamics in the Anthropocene: Modelling Key Processes of Climate-Human Interactions in the Terrestrial Biosphere |
W. Lucht | Humboldt Uni Berlin |
| Stefan Liersch | 05.05.2011 | Supporting Environmental Management by Modelling and Integration of Local Knowledge | R. Seppelt/ J.Böhner | Uni Halle-Wittenberg |
| Veronika Huber | 13.04.2010 | (at IGB), Climate Impact on Phytoplankton Blooms in Shallow Lakes Data-Based Model Approaches and Model-Guided Data Analyses (Ph.D., in AQUASHIFT priority program) | D. Gerten | TU Berlin |
| Stefanie Rost | 2009 | Assessment of global green, blue and virtual water fluxes | D. Gerten | Uni Potsdam |
| Martin Wattenbach | 2008 | The hydrological effects of changes in forest area and species composition in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany | 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 |
| Riad 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 Marburg |
| Malaak Kallache | 2007 | Trends and Extreme Values of River Discharge Time Series (PhD in Physics) | J. Kropp | Uni Bayreuth |
