copan – Team

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People involved in the copan collaboration

Core team

  • Jobst Heitzig (co-speaker, senior scientist, RD4)
  • Sara Ansari (PhD student, RD4)
  • Max Bechthold (Master student at University of Heidelberg, RD1)
  • Isabell von Falkenhausen (Master student at Technical University Berlin, RD1)
  • Leander John (Master student at University of Heidelberg, RD4)
  • Niklas Kitzmann (PhD student, RD1)
  • Wolfgang Lucht (RD1 co-chair, professor at Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Ilona M. Otto (senior scientist at PIK, RD1; professor at University of Graz, Austria)
  • Hannah Prawitz (Master student at Humboldt University Berlin, RD1)
  • Antonia Schuster (PhD student, RD1)
  • Luana Schwarz (PhD student, RD1)
  • Ricarda Winkelmann (senior scientist, professor at University of Potsdam, RD1)
  • Nico Wunderling (PostDoc, ERA and DOMINOES)

Associated members

copan alumni (our extended network)

Check here for successfully completed Bachelor, Master and PhD theses completed at COPAN

  • Łukasz Pawluczuk (former Master student, RD4)
  • Claus Sarnighausen (former intern from University of Heidelberg, RD1)
  • Nils Dunker (former Master student, RD4)
  • Marc Wiedermann (former COPAN PostDoc, DOMINOES, RD4; now at Robert Koch Institute)
  • Samuel Bien (former intern from FU Berlin, RD1)
  • Niklas Kunz (former Bachelor student at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, RD4)
  • Marius Amrhein (former master student at Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., RD4)
  • Valentin Wohlfarth (former Master student at Humboldt University Berlin, DOMINOES, RD1)
  • Manman Han (PhD student, RD1)
  • Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (Group leader, Climate Analytics, HU Berlin)
  • Hannah Mevenkamp (former Bachelor student at University of Göttingen, RD1)
  • Paul M. Müller (former Master student at Technical University Berlin, RD4)
  • Sophie Spille (former Master student at University of Potsdam, RD4)
  • Lea Tamberg (former Bachelor student at University of Osnabrück, RD1)
  • Jakob Kolb (former PhD student, RD4)
  • Jonathan Krönke (former Master student at University of Potsdam, DOMINOES)
  • Jakob Lochner (former Master student at University of Leipzig)
  • Felix Strnad (former Master student at University of Göttingen)
  • Tanja Holstein (former Master student at Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Sandra Gutjahr (former Master student at University of Halle)
  • Peter Hatz (former Master student at TH Cologne)
  • Benedikt Stumpf (former Master student at Free University Berlin, DOMINOES)
  • Lena Pfeifer (former Master student at Technical University Berlin)
  • Johannes Kassel (former Master student at University of Göttingen, now PhD student at MPI for Physics of Complex Systems Dresden)
  • Kilian Zimmerer (former Master student at University of Heidelberg)
  • Peter Steiglechner (former Master student at University of Erlangen)
  • Milena Oehlers (former Bachelor student at Technical University Berlin)
  • Luca Kunz (former Bachelor student at Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Till Kolster (former Master student at Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Sebastian Heinz (former Master student, Humboldt University Berlin, The influence of uncertainty on decision-making)
  • Kyoungmi Kim (former Master student, Carbon footprints and life-styles)
  • Vivian Grudde (former Master student at SciencesPo, Paris)
  • Finn Müller-Hansen (former PhD student, IRTG 1740, now PostDoc at MCC Berlin)
  • Tim Kittel (former PhD student, IRTG 1740, now entrepreneur)
  • Yuki Asano (former Bachelor student, now PhD student at Oxford University)
  • Vera Heck (former PhD student, also at OPEN)
  • Liubov Tupikina (former PhD student, LINC)
  • Fabian Geier (former Master student, now PhD student at Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam)
  • Rebekka Koch (former Bachelor student, now Master student at VU Amsterdam)
  • Jan Nitzbon (former Master student at University of Göttingen)
  • Erik Scharwächter (former Master student at RWTH Aachen University, now PhD student at Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam)
  • Birte Ewers (former Master student at University of Kiel)
  • Karsten Bölts (former Master student at University of Rostock)
  • Philipp Arndt (former Bachelor student at Yale University, now at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • Boyan Beronov (former Bachelor student, now PhD student at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
  • Sabine Auer (former Master student, now PhD student at PIK)
  • Reik Donner (senior scientist, project leader CoSy-CC2)
  • Valeria Jana Schwanitz (former PostDoc at PIK)