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Kirsten Thonicke Born: 14 June 1972 in Frankfurt/Oder Nationality: German |
Academic Preparation
Habilitation (Dr. rer. nat. habil) in Geoecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany, January 2020.
PhD (Dr. rer.nat.) in Geoecology, Institute for Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany, April 2003
Diplom in Physical Geography, Institute for Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany, May 1997
Professional experience
Speaker of Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity (since 2020)
Deputy Co-Chair Research Domain I “Earth System Analysis” and leader of working group “Ecosystem in Transitions” at PIK, since 10/2011
Post-doctoral position, 01/2008 – 09/2011
RD1 “Earth System Analysis”, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Co-Speaker of the Research group “Biodiversity and ecosystem services”; Working on climate-induced changes in fire regimes at the regional scale and related fire emissions.
Post-doctoral position, 06/2007-12/2007
RD2 “Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities”, PIK Potsdam, Germany
Vulnerability of fire in Europe, the influence of humans on wildfires (EU FP6 Project ALARM)
Marie-Curie-Fellow, 04/2005 – 05/2007
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK: Coupling of mechanistic global fire models in coupled climate-vegetation models. Palaeo-climate application of dynamic vegetation-fire model LPJ-SPITFIRE.
Post-doctoral position, 02/2003- 11/2004
Global Ecology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; Working on improving LPJ representation of fire in European and global natural ecosystems; development of the process-based fire model SPITFIRE.
Supervision
Supervision and co-supervision of PhD students (6 defended, 2 ongoing), several Diploma and Master theses
Honours and awards
Award for the best Dissertation in 2003/2004, Society of Friends and Promoters of the Potsdam-Institute, Potsdam, Germany, Nov. 2004.
Michelson Award for the best dissertation, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 2003
Nominated for Young Researcher Award of the Leibniz Association, Nov. 2003
