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Matei, Daniela (Dr. rer. nat.)

PhD Thesis:

"Pacific Decadal Variability: Internal Variability and Sensitivity to Subtropics"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

03.03.04 – 05.04.07

Funded by: ZEIT Foundation

Research group

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
The Ocean in the Earth System

http://www.mpimet.mpg.de

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif and Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer

Academic background

MSc Atmospheric Physics
University of Bucharest – Romania

Research interests

  • Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability
  • Tropical-Extratropical Interactions
  • ENSO response to global warming
  • Anthropogenic climate change

Contact

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
20146 Hamburg - Germany

Phone     + 49 - 40 - 41173 - 460
E-mail     daniela.matei@we dont want spamzmaw.de

Müller, Christoph (Dr. rer. nat.)

PhD Thesis:

"Climate change and global land-use patterns – quantifying the human impact on the terrestrial biosphere"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

01.03.03 - 26.01.07

Research group

Department of Global Change and Natural Systems / Bios-X
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

http://www.pik-potsdam.de/biosx/

Supervisor

Dr. Alberte Bondeau

Academic background

MSc Geoecology
University of Potsdam – Germany

Research interests

  • Interaction of human and natural systems
  • Land-use modeling
  • Integrated assessment of global change

Contact

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Telegrafenberg A62
D-14473 Potsdam - Germany

Phone +49-331-288-2685

E-mail  Christoph.Mueller@we dont want spampik-potsdam.de

URL  www.pik-potsdam.de/~cmueller/

Osmani, Dritan (Dr. rer. pol.)

PhD Thesis:

"Stability and Burden Sharing Emissions in International Environmental Agreements: A Game-Theoretic Approach"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

01.04.06 - 23.10.09

Research group

Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change
University of Hamburg

http://www.fnu.zmaw.de/

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Richard Tol

Academic background

MSc in Mathematics
University of Kaiserslautern - Germany

Research interests

  • game theory, coalition formation
  • environmental economics

Contact

Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP)
Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change
Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Science
Hamburg University
Bundestrasse 55, Room 31(Pavillon),
20146 Hamburg - Germany 

Phone +49 (0) 40 42838 6597

E-mail  dritan.osmani@we dont want spamzmaw.de

Otto, Juliane (Dr. rer. nat.)

PhD Thesis:

"Interactions between climate and vegetation at high northern latitudes during the mid-Holocene"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

15.06.07 - 25.06.10

Research group

Land in the Earth System
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

www.mpimet.mpg.de

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen

Academic background

Diplom in Geography (German equivalent to MSc)
Humboldt University Berlin - Germany

Research interests

  • interactions between biosphere and atmosphere
  • climate and vegetation modelling

Contact

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
20146 Hamburg - Germany

E-mail juliane.otto@we dont want spamzmaw.de

Pfeffer, Melissa Anne (Dr. rer. nat.)

PhD Thesis:

"The Relative Influences of Volcanic and Anthropogenic Emissions on Air Pollution in Indonesia as Studied With a Regional Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

29.04.03 - 04.06.07

Fellow of ZEIT Foundation and AAUW

Research group

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
The Atmosphere in the Earth System

www.mpimet.mpg.de

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Hans-Friedrich Graf

Academic background

MSc Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of New Mexico - USA

Research interests

Contact

Institutt for geofag
Postboks 1047 Blindern
0316 Oslo - Norway

Pongratz, Julia (Dr. rer. nat.)

PhD Thesis:

"A model estimate on the effect of anthropogenic land cover change on the climate of the last millennium"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

01.04.06 – 29.04.09

Research group

Land in the Earth System, Group for Global Vegetation Modelling
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

www.mpimet.mpg.de

Supervisor

Dr Christian Reick

Academic background

Diplom in Geography (German equivalent to MSc)
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich - Germany

Research interests

  • biosphere-atmosphere interactions
  • land use and climate

Contact

Department of Global Ecology
Carnegie Institution of Washington
260 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305 - USA

E-mail   pongratz@we dont want spamstanford.edu

Punge, Heinz Jürgen (Dr. rer. nat)

PhD Thesis:

"The quasi-biennial oscillation: Representation in numerical models and effects on stratospheric transport and trace gases"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

09.09.05 – 09.07.08

Research group

Atmosphere in the Earth System
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

http://www.mpimet.mpg.de

Supervisor

Dr. Marco Giorgetta

Academic background

MSc in Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers University in New Brunswick – USA

Research interests

  • Variability of stratospheric circulation and trace gases, focus on the quasi-biennial oscillation, in chemistry climate models
  • Analysis of annual and interannual variability of stratospheric transport using Lagrangian methods
  • Troposphere-Stratosphere interactions at low latitudes, e.g. QBO effect on tropopause temperature and humidity, role of the Asian monsoon for the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere region

Contact

Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement LSCE-Orme
Batiment 701
Orme des Merisiers
91191 GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX - France

Phone +33 1 69 08 66 80

E-mail  Heinz-Jurgen.Punge@we dont want spamlsce.ipsl.fr

URL      www.lsce.ipsl.fr

Ronneberger, Kerstin (Dr. rer. nat)

PhD Thesis:

"The Global Agricultural Land Use Model KLUM - A Coupling Tool for Integrated Assessment"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

01.05.02 – 27.06.06

Fellow of VW Foundation

Research group

Research Unit Sustainability and Change
University of Hamburg

http://www.fnu.zmaw.de

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Richard S. J. Tol

Academic background

Diplom in Physics (German equivalent to MSc)
University of Hamburg - Germany

Research interests

  • Landuse modelling
  • Integrated assessment modelling
  • Grid computing

Contact

DKRZ
Bundesstr. 45a
20146 Hamburg – Germany 

Phone +49 40 41173 - 322

E-mail ronneberger@we dont want spamdkrz.de

URL www.dkrz.de/dkrz/about/staff/staffmember?name=ronneberger

Roß, Ole (Dr. rer. nat.)

PhD Thesis:

"Simulation of atmospheric krypton-85 transport to assess the detectability of clandestine nuclear reprocessing"

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Member of IMPRS-ESM

18.01.07 - 02.02.10

Funding: German Foundation for Peace Research

Research group

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Centre
for Science and Peace Research

www.znf.uni-hamburg.de

and

Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

www.mpimet.mpg.de

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Martin B. Kalinowski

Academic background

Diplom in Physics (German equivalent to MSc)
University of Hamburg - Germany

Research interests

  • Atmospheric transport modelling and chemistry
  • Verification technologies in nuclear arms control

Contact

Meteorological Institute
University of Hamburg
Bundesstr. 55
20146 Hamburg - Germany

Phone +49 40 42838 3533

E-mail   ole.ross@we dont want spamzmaw.de

URL      www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/memi


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