Disputations in RD2

Disputations of all PIK doctoral researchers - click here

Name Date Theme Supervisor at PIK University
Edna Molina Bacca

08.12.2025

The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Adapting Crop Production to Global Change

H. Lotze-Campen
B. Bodirsky

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
H. Lotze-Campen

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

C. Gornott

Uni Kassel
Lisa Murken 10.02.2023 Land tenure in a changing climate

C. Gornott

Uni Kassel
Tobias Herzfeld 23.11.2022 Modeling the impact of agricultural management practices on global soil degradation

H. Lotze-Campen

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

H. Lotze-Campen

HU Berlin
Vera Porwollik 06.07.2022 Patterns of Global Crop Management Systems for Assessment of Global Change

H. Lotze-Campen

HU Berlin
Linda
Krummenauer
16.06.2022 A global assessment of heat-mortality relationships impacting urban population

J. Kropp

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

C. Müller

Wageningen University
Sara Minoli 14.02.2020 Managing phenology for agronomic adaptation of global cropping systems to climate change

H. Lotze-Campen

HU Berlin
Wei Weng 10.12.2019 Local land use change and its relevance for small-scale moisture recycling in Colombian and Peruvian Amazon.

J. Kropp

HU Berlin
Xiaoxi
Wang
18.04.2019 Understanding Implications of Key Economic Factors for Land Dynamics and Food Systems in a Changing World

H. Lotze-Campen


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

F. Hattermann
V. Krysanova

TU Berlin
Christoph Gornott 16.02.2018 Assessment of regional crop yields in Tanzania comparing different approaches

F. Hattermann

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

V. Krysanova

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

H. Lotze-Campen

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

H. Lotze-Campen

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

F.-W. Gerstengarbe

University of Bonn
Boris Prahl 20.01.2017 On Damage Functions for the Estimation of Storm Loss and their Generalization for Climate-Related Hazards

J. Kropp

FU Berlin
Judith Stagl 12.01.2017

F. Hattermann

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

F. Wechsung

Uni Potsdam
Mady Olonscheck 30.09.2016 Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand

J. Kropp

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

J. Kropp

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

F. Wechsung

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Stefan
Lange
13.10.2015

J. Kurths

HU Berlin
Prajal Pradhan 05.05.2015

J. Kropp

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/
Tobia Lakes

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/
F. Wechsung

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

The future of food supply in a constraining environment

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/
W.Lucht

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