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Disputations in 2011 (Record started December 2011)

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Marianela Fader	Flows of virtual land and water through global trade of agricultural products	Physical geography	Potsdam University 8.12.2011
Diana Sietz	Dryland vulnerability - Typical patterns and dynamics in support of vulnerability reduction efforts	Global ecology	Potsdam University 9.12.2011

Disputations in 2012

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Markus Haller	CO₂ Mitigation and Power System Integration of Fluctuating Renewable Energy Sources: A Multi-Scale Modeling Approach Published dissertation	Energy engineering	TU Berlin 27.1.2012
Friedemann Lembcke	Kalkül versus Katastrophe – Die Kommunikation des Klimawandels ISBN 978-3-531-19628-2	Medienwissenschaft	TU Berlin 8.2.2012
Nishant Malik	Extremes in events and dynamics : a nonlinear data analysis perspective on the past and present dynamics of the Indian summer monsoon. (Published dissertation)	Nonlinear dynamics	Potsdam University 09.02.2012
Alexander Lorenz	Uncertainty and Learning in Global Climate Analysis Published dissertation	Environmental economics	TU Berlin 14.2.2012
Jacob Schewe	Basic physical mechanisms for monsoon failure in past and future climate	Physics	Potsdam University 16.2.2012
Shaochun Huang	Modelling of environmental change impacts on water resources and hydrological extremes in Germany Published dissertation	Hydrology	Potsdam University 2.5.2012
Matthias Kalkuhl	The Calculus of Climate Policy: Carbon Pricing and Technology Policies for Climate Change Mitigation Published dissertation	Economics	TU Berlin 7.5.2012
Pia Gottschalk	Modelling soil organic carbon dynamics under land use and climate change	Plant & soil sciences	University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences 31.5.2012
Daniel Klingenfeld	On Strategies for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: Elements of a Global Carbon Market ISBN 3643902492	Political economics	TU Berlin 5.6.2012
Ricarda Winkelmann	The Future Sea-Level Contribution from Antarctica - Projections of Solid Ice Discharge	Climate physics	Potsdam University 18.6.2012
Maria Martin	Numerical simulation of the Antarctic ice sheet and its dynamic response to external perturbations	Climate physics	Potsdam University 25.6.2012
Jan Steckel	Developing countries in the context of climate change mitigation and energy system transformation Published dissertation	Economics	TU Berlin 27.6.2012
Daniel Lincke	A transformational approach to generic software development based on higher-order, typed functional signatures (Published dissertation)	Engineering sciences	Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Faculty of electrical engineering and computer science 27.6.2012
Fanny Langerwisch	The Role of Climate and Land Use Change on the Riverine Carbon Fluxes in Amazonia	Geoecology	Potsdam University 18.9.2012
Sabrina Hempel	Deciphering gene regulation from time series data (Published dissertation)	Physics	Humboldt University Berlin 01.10.2012
Alice Boit	Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex ecological networks	Ecosystem modelling	Potsdam University 24.10.2012
Johannes Gütschow	Quantum information processing with Clifford quantum cellular automata	Physics	Leibniz University Hannover Faculty for Mathematics and Physics 09.11.2012
Christoph Schmitz	The future of food supply in a constraining environment - Modelling the impact of trade, intensification, and cropland expansion on agricultural and environmental systems	Agricultural economics	Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture 12.12.2012
Jonathan Donges	Functional network macroscopes for probing past and present Earth system dynamics - Complex hierarchical interactions, tipping points, and beyond	Theoretical physics	Humboldt University Berlin, 13.12.2012

Disputations in 2013

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Katharina Waha	Application of a global vegetation model (LPJmL) for assessing climate change impacts on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa	Geography	Potsdam University 12.2.2013
Thomas Präßler	Overcoming barriers to onshore and offshore wind power development—A developers’ perspective on the effect of support policies	Economics	Technical University Berlin 12.4.2013
Eva Schmid	On the Exploration of German Mitigation Scenarios	Economics	Technical University Berlin 22.4.2013
Christopher Reyer	The cascade of uncertainty in modeling forest ecosystem responses to environmental change and the challenge of sustainable resource management	Geography	Humboldt University 25.4.2013
Steffen Brunner	Climate policy, the state, and the problem of credible commitment	Economics	Technical University Berlin 3.5.2013
Tobias Conradt	Challenges of eco-hydrological modelling in the Elbe River basin -- Investigations about model fidelity on sub-catchment level	Geoecology	Potsdam University 6.5.2013
Hendrik Kienert	Climate-modelling studies of the faint young Sun problem and of the relation between the AMOC and a regional sea-level gradient	Climate physics	Potsdam University 28.5.2013
Kira Rehfeld	Embracing nature's heterogeneity - the challenge to infer dependences from paleoclimate data	Physics	Humboldt University 30.5.2013
Anne Holsten	Climate change vulnerability assessments in the regional context	Geoecology	Potsdam University 4.7.2013
Sebastian Schubert	Development and evaluation of a double-canyon urban canopy scheme, and estimation of urban heat island mitigation effects	Meteorology	Free University Berlin 12.7.2013
Vera Tekken	Socio-economic vulnerability to climate change: a regional assessment in the context of water stress and tourism development in north-eastern Morocco	Geography	University of Greifswald 11.09.2013
Johan Lilliestam	Energy security and renewable electricity imports: the case of a Supergrid connecting Europe, North Africa and the Middle East	Political Science	Central European University, Budapest 11.09.2013
Luís Costa	Climate change adaptation and its costs in a carbon constrained world	Sustainability Science	University of Greifswald 29.10.2013
Sylvie Ludig	Renewable energy and CCS in German and European power sector decarbonization scenarios	Engineering Sciences	Technical University Berlin 06.11.2013
Manju Murugesan	Delay effects on synchronization in networks of dynamical systems	Physics	Humboldt University 06.11.2013
Pawlok Dass	The role of bioenergy production in the terrestrial carbon cycle and energy balance	Earth System Sciences	University of Hamburg 08.11.2013
Rainald Ötsch	Electricity generation in Germany under the conditions of climate policy and liberalized electricity market - Valuation of power plant investments with Bayesian influence diagrams (in German)	Economics	Potsdam University 02.12.2013
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner	Variabilitity and trend of the North Atlantic ocean circulation in past and future climate	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 04.12.2013
Torsten Albrecht	A Dynamic Memory of Fracture Processes in Ice Shelves	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 05.12.2013

Disputations in 2014

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Oleksandr Kit	Automated identification of slums in Hyderabad using high resolution satellite imagery	Geography	Humboldt University 13.02.2014
Peter Menck	How Wires Shape Volumes - On the relation between network topology and nonlocal power grid stability	Theoretical Physics	Humboldt University 04.03.2014
Holger Hoff	Teleconnections in the global water system, their impacts on local water resources, and opportunities for addressing them in IWRM	Geoecology	Potsdam University 02.04.2014
Odette Deuber	Metric choice for trading off short- and long-lived climate forcers – A transdisciplinary approach using the example of aviation	Economics	TU Berlin 02.05.2014
Arathy Menon	Indian summer monsoon: Future variability, extreme events and effects of lagged adaptation	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 28.05.2014
Doreen Burdack	Water Management Policies and its Impacts on Irrigated Crop Production in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia	Wirtschafts-wissenschaften	Potsdam University 10.06.2014
Tabea Lissner	Limitations to human livelihoods and well-being in the context of climate change	Geography	Humboldt University 12.06.2014
Matteo Willeit	Modelling vegetation and carbon-cycle feedbacks on climate at different temporal and spatial scales	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 12.06.2014
Jessica Strefler	Challenges for low stabilization of climate change: The complementarity of non-CO₂ greenhouse gas and aerosol abatement to CO₂ emission reductions	Climate Physics	TU Berlin 15.07.2014
Falko Ueckerdt	Integrating variable electricity supply from wind and solar PV into power systems	Economics	TU Berlin 15.07.2014
Jakob Runge	Detecting and quantifying causality from time series of complex systems	Physics	Humboldt University 05.08.2014
Robert Pietzcker	Achieving stringent climate targets: An analysis of the role of transport and variable renewable energies using energy-economy-climate models	Economics	TU Berlin 21.10.2014
Nora Molkentin	Advection-diffusion-networks - On the relationship of flow dynamics and climate network topology	Theoretical Physics	Humboldt University 06.11.2014
Benjamin Bodirsky	Agricultural nitrogen pollution: the human food-print	Agricultural Economics	TU Berlin 12.11.2014
Lion Hirth	The economics of wind & solar variability - How the variability of wind and solar power affect their marginal value, optimal deployment, and integration costs	Economics	TU Berlin 14.11.2014
David Klein	Bioenergy Markets in a Climate Constrained World	Economics	TU Berlin 28.11.2014

Disputations in 2015

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Ulrike Kornek	Designing International Climate Agreements: An Economic Analysis of Free-riding Incentives	Economics	TU Berlin 27.03.2015
Niklas Boers	Complex Network Analysis of Extreme Rainfall Synchronization in the South American Monsoon System	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 30.04.2015
Bedartha Goswami	Uncertainties in climate data analysis: Perspectives on working with measurement errors and other unknowns	Climate Physics	University Potsdam 04.05.2015
Prajal Pradhan	Food Demand and Supply under Global Change	Geoecology	University Potsdam 05.05.2015
Matthias Mengel	Forcing Earth´s sea level: instabilities and linear responses	Climate Physics	University Potsdam 26.06.2015
Aljoscha Rheinwalt	Spatial Analyses of Precipitation Climatology using Climate Networks	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 20.07.2015
Markus Bonsch	Land and water for agriculture - future prospects and trade-offs	Land-use science / Hydrology	TU Berlin 03.09.2015
Peng Ji	Syncronisation in the Second-order Kuramoto Model	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 03.09.2015
Stefan Lange	On the evaluation of regional climate model simulations over South America	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 13.10.2015
Florian Humpenöder	Land-based climate change mitigation: modeling bioenergy production, afforestation and avoidance of deforestation	Economics	TU Berlin 15.10.2015
Christoph Bertram	The effect of near-term climate policies on the achievability of ambitious long-term climate targets	Economics	TU Berlin 26.10.2015
Bastian Stößel	Weather-disease relationships and future disease potential of leaf rust and powdery mildew in Saxony-Anhalt	Geography/ Agricultural sciences	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 12.11.2015

Disputations in 2016

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Deniz Eroglu	Entrapping hidden changes in nature	Theoretical physics	HU Berlin 29.01.2016
Veronika Stolbova	Indian Summer Monsoon: critical transition, predictability and extremes	Theoretical physics	HU Berlin 29.01.2016
Christoph Menz	Regionale Klimamodellierung in Ostasien: Ein Vergleich von statistischen und dynamischen Modellierungsansatz	Physics/ Meteorology	Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main 17.03.2016
Valentin Aich	Floods in the Niger River Basin in the face of Global Change - Analysis, Attribution and Projections	Hydrology	Uni Potsdam 15.04.2016
Delphine Zemp	Feedbacks between vegetation and rainfall in the Amazon region - a complex network approach	Geography	HU Berlin 19.04.2016
Markus Böttle	Coastal Floods in View of Sea Level Rise: Assessing Damage Costs and Adaptation Measures	Natural hazards research	Uni Potsdam 27.04.2016
Klaus Bittermann	Semi-empirical sea-level modelling	Climate physics	Uni Potsdam 20.05.2016
Jascha Lehmann	Changes in extratropical storm tracks and their implications for extreme weather events	Climate physics	Uni Potsdam 08.06.2016
Boris Sakschewski	Impacts of major anthropogenic pressures on the terrestrial biosphere and its resilience to global change	Ecology	Uni Potsdam 01.07.2016
Godefroy Grosjean	Reforming the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): An Institutional Perspective	Economics	TU Berlin 05.07.2016
Anselm Schultes	At the Frontiers of Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: Distribution, Technology policy, and Land	Economics	TU Berlin 11.07.2016
Martin Gutsch	Model-based analysis of climate change impacts on the productivity of oak-pine forests in Brandenburg	Geoecology	Uni Potsdam 11.07.2016
Johannes Feldmann	Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: From the concept of similitude to dynamic modeling	Climate physics	Uni Potsdam 14.07.2016
Maximilian Franks	Rents, Taxes, and Distribution: Towards a New Public Economics of Climate Change	Economics	TU Berlin 19.07.2016
Paul Nahmmacher	Strategies for a future European power system with high shares of renewable energy: A model-based analysis focusing on uncertainty	Economics	TU Berlin 22.07.2016
David Klenert	Common Goods & Distribution: Public Finance and Environmental Policy in an Unequal World	Economics	TU Berlin 29.09.2016
Mady Olonscheck	Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand	Climate impact research	Uni Potsdam 30.09.2016
Michael Roers	Methoden zur Dynamisierung von Klimafolgen-analysen im Elbegebiet - Aktualisierung von Szenarienstudien zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und fortlaufende Überprüfung ökohydrologischer Modellergebnisse	Hydrology	Uni Potsdam 14.10.2016
Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf	Lifestyles and Changing Consumption Patterns and their Impacts on Climate Change in Hyderabad/ India	Geography	Universität zu Köln 24.10.2016
Leonie Wenz	Climate change impacts in an increasingly connected world	Climate Physics	Uni Potsdam 01.12.2016
Robert Bierkandt	Pressure from Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Power Plants: Near-Term Extremes and Long-Term Commitment	Climate Physics	Uni Potsdam 15.12.2016

Disputations in 2017

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Judith Stagl	Ecosystems' exposure to climate change: Modeling as support for nature conservation management	Climate impact research	Uni Potsdam 12.01.2017
Lena Boysen	Potentials, consequences and trade-offs of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal: Strategies for climate engineering and their limitations	Geography	HU Berlin 17.01.2017
Boris Prahl	On damage functions for the estimation of storm loss and their generalization for climate related hazards	Meteorology	FU Berlin/ Inst. of Meteorology 20.01.2017
Liubov Tupikina	Temporal and spatial aspects of correlation networks and dynamical network models: analytical approaches and physical applications	Physics	HU Berlin 13.02.2017
Vera Heck	Interference in the Earth system through terrestrial carbon dioxide removal: numerical simulations of trade-offs, risks and opportunities	Geography	HU Berlin 16.03.2017
Julia Lutz	Regional climate modelling with STARS	Meteorology	University Bonn 06.04.2017
Anne Zimmer	Impediments, incentives and interrelations with other objectives – On the intricacy of climate policy implementation	Economics	TU Berlin 21.04.2017
Miodrag Stevanović	Direct and Indirect Climate Change Impacts in the Land-Use Sector	Economics	TU Berlin 03.05.2017
Dominik Traxl	Deep Graphs - Represent and Analyze Heterogeneous Complex Systems across Scales	Physics	HU Berlin 05.05.2017
Fabian Joas	Challenges of the Energiewende from a Policy Analysis Perspective: Understanding the goals and improving the policy instruments of Germany's energy transition The disputation will be conducted in German.	Economics / Political Science	TU Berlin 19.05.2017
Jonas Jägermeyr	Assessing Opportunities to increase global food production within the safe operating space for human freshwater use	Geography	HU Berlin 29.05.2017
Isabelle Weindl	Livestock futures in a changing world: Modelling interactions between animal agriculture and the environment	Geography	HU Berlin 16.10.2017
Bin Zhou	On the assessment of surface urban heat island: size, urban form, and seasonality	Physical Geography	Uni Potsdam 20.11.2017
Marc Wiedermann	Classification of Complex Networks in Spatial, Topological and Information-Theoretic Domains	Physics	HU Berlin 01.12.2017
Venkata Ramana Gudipudi	Cities and Global Sustainability: Insights from emission and ecological efficiency	Geoecology	Uni Potsdam 08.12.2017
Christin Meyer	Climate Change and Sustainable Risk Management for Agriculture – Building business resilience through adaptation. The Case Study of the ´Mount Hesse´ farm in Australia	Geography	Uni Hamburg 20.12.2017

Disputations 2018

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Bernhard Schauberger	Improving crop models with respect to yield variability and climate extremes as a precondition for food security assessments	Agricultural economics	HU Berlin 24.01.2018
Michel Wortman	Climate impact assessment of high-mountain, glacier melt dominated catchments using the Soil and Water Integrated Model (SWIM): the Tarim tributaries, NW China	Geography	University College London 26.01.2018
Sabine Auer	The Stability and Control of Power Grids with High Renewable Energy Share	Physics	HU Berlin 30.01.2018
Tim Kittel	Transient Analysis of Complex Dynamical Systems in the Context of Sustainability	Physics	HU Berlin 07.02.2018
Christoph Gornott	Improving crop modeling approaches for supporting farmers to cope with weather risks	Agriculture	HU Berlin 16.02.2018
Chiranjit Mitra	Stability of dynamical processes on complex networks	Physics	HU Berlin 16.03.2018
Paul Schultz	Stability Concepts of Networked Infrastructure Networks	Physics	HU Berlin 27.03.2018
Marlene Kretschmer	Disentangling Causal Pathways of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex - A Machine Learning Approach	Climate physics	Potsdam University 23.04.2018
Julian Maluck	The complex network topology of trade in a globalized world	Physics	HU Berlin 03.05.2018
Sebastian Ostberg	Joint impacts of climate and land use change on the terrestrial biosphere	Geography	HU Berlin 09.05.2018
Anastasia Lobanova	The assessment of hydrological impacts of climate change and their implications for water management across scales: fromthe local to European scale	Hydrology	TU Berlin 17.05.2018
Kai Kornhuber	Rossby Wave Dynamics and Changes in Summertime Weather Extremes	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 25.05.2018
Stefanie Becker	From Regimes to Grassroots innovations: a framework for understanding the causes of the barriers to community-based initiative and their impacts on transitions	Political Science	Potsdam University 04.07.2018
Ronja Reese	The far reach of ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 06.07.2018
Sonja Totz	Modeling and Data Analysis of Large-scale Atmosphere Dynamics Associated with Extreme Weather	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 23.08.2018
Ulrich Kreidenweis	The future of global land use:Model-based assessment of policy options to reverse forest loss,mitigate climate change and safeguard biodiversity	Natural Sciences	TU Berlin 20.09.2018
Finn Müller-Hansen	A complex systems perspective on land-use dynamics in the Amazon: patterns, agents, networks	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 01.10.2018
Cornelia Hesse	Integrated water quality modelling in meso- to large-scale catchments of the Elbe river basin under climate and land use change	Geoecology	Potsdam University 08.11.2018
Johanna Beckmann	Impacts of Arctic climate change on sea level and atmospheric circulation in the Northern mid-latitudes	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 23.11.2018
Sven Willner	Global economic response to flood damages under climate change	Climate Physics	Potsdam University 05.12.2018

Disputations 2019

PhD student	Title	Discipline	Location and time
Ankit Agarwal	Unraveling spatio-temporal climatic patterns via multi-scale complex networks	Hydrology	University Potsdam 29.01.2019, 3 p.m. Golm, Room 02.29.0.25
Ugur Öztürk	Learning more to Predict Landslides	Georisiks	University Potsdam 21.02.2019, 11 a.m. Golm, Room 02.29.0.25/0.26
Kira Vinke	Unsettling Settlements: Cities, Migrants, Climate Change - Rural-Urban Climate Migration as Effective Adaptation?	Political Science	HU Berlin 25.02.2019, 2 p.m. Universitätsstr. 3b, Room 004
Catrin Ciemer	Complex systems analysis of changing rainfall regimes in South America and their implications for the Amazon rainforest	Physics	HU Berlin 28.02.2019, 2 p.m. Newtonstr. 14, Room 1'15
Jasper Franke	Networks of the Late Quaternary - Case Studies on Complex Network Approaches on Paleoclimate Time Series	Physics	HU Berlin 01.03.2019, 3 p.m. Newtonstr. 14, Room 1'15
Christian Gambardella	On the economics of real-time pricing in low-carbon electricity markets:Efficiency and feasibility in the presence of policy-induced variable renewable energy supply	Economics	TU Berlin 01.03.2019, 2 p.m. Room 370, Building 13b, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin
Xiaoxi Wang	Understandig Implications of Key Economic Factors for Land Dynamics and Food Systems in a Changing World	Agricultural Economics	HU Berlin 18.04.2019, 1 p.m. Dekanatssaal (Room 1007, EG), Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115 Berlin
Wolfram Barfuß	Learning dynamics and decision paradigms in social-ecological dilemmas	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 25.04.2019, 3 p.m. Room 1´202 (Ei), Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin
Nikoo Ekhtiari	Interactions between water-bodies and atmosphere at regional to global scales	Theoretical Physics	HU Berlin 29.08.2019, 3 p.m. Room 1´202 (Ei), Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin
Levke Caesar	The evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its implications for surface warming	Climate Physics	University Potsdam 27.09.2019, 10:30 a.m. Telegraphenberg, Telepresence Room A56
Wei Weng	Aerial river management for future water in the context of land use change in Amazonia	Geography	HU Berlin 10.12.2019, 10 a.m. Geographic Institute, Room 0'223, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin-Adlershof