Our group
Back row, from left to right: James, Lee, Axel, Ryan, Darren, Steffen, Philipp, Susanne, Kerstin, Bjoern, Corina, Kristin
Front row: Eugenio, Fabian, Stan
Group leader:
- Axel Kleidon, Leader of the Max Planck research group (MPRG) on biospheric theory and modelling.
Post-docs:
- Darren Drewry, NSF International Research Fellow.
- James Dyke, Helmholtz Alliance "Planetary Evolution and Life".
- Eugenio Simoncini, Helmholtz Alliance "Planetary Evolution and Life".
- Nathaniel Virgo, Helmholtz Alliance "Planetary Evolution and Life".
PhD Students:
- Susanne Arens, working on coupling the biotic, climatic and erosive effects on silicate weathering in an earth system model of intermediate complexity.
- Kristin Bohn, working on implementation of historical and evolutionary processes in a global functional plant diversity model.
- Corina Buendía, modelling the phosphorus cycle in the terrestrial biosphere.
- Fabian Gans, entropy of radiation and Earth system limits to renewable energy
- Lee Miller, large-scale renewable energy extractability and impacts using thermodynamics.
- Ryan Pavlick, working on modelling biodiversity and understanding its significance for Earth system functioning.
- Philipp Porada, working on modelling lichen and microbial crusts.
Support and technical staff:
- Gerhard Boenisch(1), scientific data manager.
- Corinne Sacher(1), project management.
- Kerstin Sickel(1), programming.
- Steffen Richter, programming.
- Natalia Ungelenk(1), information officer.
- Birgitta Wiehl(1), departmental secretary.
(1): shared with Markus Reichstein's and Christian Wirth's research groups.
Former members:
- Jamison Howard, (UMD) Role of rotation rate on the atmospheric circulation and states of Maximum Entropy Production; Spring 2004.
- Charles Low, (UMD) Multiple stable states of the climate-vegetation system; Fall 2004, Spring 2005.
- Sameer Patwardhan, (IIT-Bombay) Modelling of optimal stomatal functioning; Summer 2006.
- Jatin Narula, (IIT-Madras) Modelling effects of vegetation diversity on pattern formation; Summer 2007.
- Pablo Paiewonsky, M. A. student (UMD); working on optimum vegetation albedo, 2004 - 2007. now in the PhD program in Atmospheric Science at State University of New York at Albany.
- Philipp Kynast, Hiwi student, visualization and user interfaces.
- Xiangke Xu, visitng PhD student (CAS, Beijing, China).
- Andreas Ostrowski, model parameterisation and data handling.
- Nate Brunsell, visiting Humboldt Research Fellow during sabbatical year from University of Kansas
- Björn Reu, Ph. D. student working on JeDi from 2007-2011. Now at University of Leipzig
- Stan Schymanski, now at ETH Zurich
