Job experience
2020 - present
- Visiting Research Collaborator, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, USA
2019 - present
- Co-leader, PIK FutureLab on Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
- Group leader, PIK RD1 Working Group on Whole Earth System Analysis
- Co-speaker, COPAN collaboration
- Co-lead developer, COPAN:CORE World-Earth modelling framework
- Co-PI, Leibniz Association project DominoES (Domino effects in the Earth system - Can Antarctica tip climate policy?)
- PIK research coordinator of ERC advanced grant project ERA led by Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström
- Researcher at the Planetary Boundaries Research Lab, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
2013 - 2018
- Joint Post-Doc, Stordalen Scholar and EarthDoc at Research Domain for Earth system analysis, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden within Planetary Boundaries Research Lab
- Co-head of PIK's flagship project COPAN on Coevolutionary Pathways in the Earth system
Education
2009 - 2012
PhD (summa cum laude) with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Kurths in theoretical physics at Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research and Department of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Topic: "Functional network macroscopes for probing past and present Earth system analysis: Complex hierarchical interactions, tipping points, and beyond" (thesis submitted May 2012)
2009
Diplom (Grade: with distinction), M.Sc. equivalent in Physics, University of Potsdam, Germany
2008 - 2009
Final year project on "Complex networks in the climate system" with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Kurths at Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Germany
2006 - 2007
Year of study at University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA
2005 - 2009
Graduate studies of physics, University of Potsdam, Germany
Subsidiary subject: environmental sciences
2003 - 2005
Undergraduate studies in physics, University of Bonn, Germany
Subsidiary subject: Astrophysics
Awards and honors
2019
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2019 for statistical physics and climate science, awarded by DFG and BMBF
- Young Elite - Top 40 under 40 in Science and Society Award 2019, by CAPITAL
2015
Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize 2014, awarded by Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, Hamburg
2014
Friedrich-Hirzebruch dissertation award (second mention), awarded by German National Academic Foundation
2013
Donald L. Turcotte award for outstanding dissertations in nonlinear geophysics, awarded by American Geophysical Union
2010 - 2012
PhD scholarship, awarded by German National Academic Foundation
2011
Falling Walls Lab scholarship, awarded by Falling Walls Foundation and A.T. Kearney
2010
Award for outstanding graduates in Physics (Physik-Studienpreis), awarded by Physical Society of Berlin and WE-Heraeus Foundation
2006 - 2007
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Scholarship, Education Abroad Program, University of
California
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Fulbright scholarship, German-American Fulbright Commission
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Hölderlin scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
and Siemens Management Consulting
2005 - 2009
Scholarship, awarded by German National Academic Foundation
1995 - 2001
Six federal state level awards (North Rhine-Westphalia), Jugend Forscht and Schüler Experimentieren science competitions
International experience
2016 - 2019
Several research stays at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA) in the framework of the Princeton-Humboldt Cooperation and Collective Cognition Network (CoCCoN).
2013 - present
Frequent research visits within Planetary Boundary Research Initiative,
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
2011 - 2012
Project work on time series analysis of sea level dynamics, funded by German Academic Exchange Service and Portugese Foundation for Science and Technology,
University of Porto, Portugal
2009 and 2011
Speleological and paleoclimatological field work (Indian Speleological Monitoring Expedition),
Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India
2009
Research visit to Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,
Pune, India
2006 - 2007
Research project on optimal parameter estimation exploiting synchonization phenomena with Prof. Dr. Henry D.I. Abarbanel,
Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
1999
High school exchange program,
Apalachicola, Florida, USA
