Mainly working together with Georg Feulner (ᴘɪᴋ) and colleagues from ɢꜰᴢ (H.S.D., J.B., Dynamics of early Earth and evolution of plate tectonics), my current aim is to examine the influence of particular climate ‘modes of operation’ on the very-long-term past evolution of plate tectonics (Snowball Earth and subsequent Hothouse Earth; Boring Billion). To this end, I use a climate model of intermediate complexity and work on developing a simple coupled model of climatic, Earth surface, and geodynamic processes.
Alongside Anne Merfort, I am one of the junior ombudspersons at ᴘɪᴋ. We are contacts for questions regarding good research practice, offering confidential first consultations and general information on the topic. Cases of scientific mediation are always handled together with, or solely by, the senior ombudspersons, Sabine Undorf and Franziska Piontek.
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14412 Potsdam
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- Until 2012: School, wage work in Radebeul and Dresden
- 2012–2022: Studies in geoecology (B.Sc.) and physics (B.Sc., M.Sc.) at University of Potsdam
- 2015–2017: Research assistant at the Chair of Hydrology and Climatology at University of Potsdam
- 2019–2020: Research assistant in the MOSAiC project at Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam
- Since April 2022 (Potsdam): Doctoral researcher in the MEET project at PIK
- Additionally since October 2025 (Potsdam): Researcher in the Past to Future project at PIK
- Feedbacks between climate and plate tectonics through Earth’s history (current)
- Role of Earth’s orbital geometry and volcanic perturbations in the inception of a Snowball Earth (M.Sc. thesis)
- Chaotic atmospheric dynamics and predictability in Arctic regional climate modeling (B.Sc. thesis)
- Salt transport in coastal groundwater (B.Sc. thesis)
- Eberhard, J., O.E. Bevan, G. Feulner, S. Petri, J. van Hunen, J.U.L. Baldini (2023): Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism, Climate of the Past, 19, 2203–2235. DOI:10.5194/cp-19-2203-2023
- Eberhard, J., N.L.M.B. van Schaik, A. Schibalski, T. Gräff (2020): Simulating future salinity dynamics in a coastal marshland under different climate scenarios, Vadose Zone Journal, 19, e20008. DOI:10.1002/vzj2.20008
Monitoring Earth Evolution Through Time (MEET)
Past to Future (P2F)
Numerical models in climate science (weekly exercise, summer semesters 2022–2024 at University of Potsdam)
