Former members, internships and guests
| Name | Position |
| Bernhard Ahrens | Visiting student 03.-05.2010 (Inverse modelling of soil carbon balances with 14C data.) University of Bayreuth now PhD student at Soil Biogeochemistry Group |
| Friedrich Angermueller | MSc student (moved for a PhD to UFZ Leipzig) |
| Shanning Bao | PhD Student |
| Christian Beer | Group Leader (now Associate professor at Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry Stockholm University) |
| Christian Berger | Visiting M.Sc student 02.-04.2009 (Remote sensing data processing) Remote sensing, University of Jena |
| Verena Bessenbacher | BSc student 11-2014 - 02-2015 (The Influence of atmospheric CO2 and climate change on fire - Analysis in a number of example regions in the tropics) at IMK-IFU in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Technician |
| Paul Bodesheim | Postdoc |
| Ekaterina Bogdanovich Manakhova | Master Student |
| Maarten Braakhekke | Postdoc (moved to Universiteit Utrecht) |
| Pierre Brender | Visiting PhD student 03.-06.2008 (Evaluating terrestiral biosphere model runs over Africa) LSCE, Paris |
| Thomas Brockmann | Visiting M.Sc. student 03.-02.2012 (Pattern-oriented evaluation of global fire models.) Remote sensing, University of Jena |
| Nuno Carvalhais | Visiting PhD student 03.-04.2009,04.-06.2008, 07.-08.2006 (Parameter estimation and model structure evaluation) Dep. of Environmental sciences, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa now group leader Model-Data Integration group |
| Nicolas Dalla Valle | PhD student |
| Daniela Dalmonech | PostDoc |
| Reik Donner | Postdoc (moved to PIK) |
| Altug Ekici | PhD student (GreenCyclesII: High-latitude ecosystem modelling) |
| Adam Erickson | Postdoc |
| Matthias Forkel | Visiting M.Sc student 03.-04.2010, PhD student, Postdoc (moved to Remote Sensing research group at TU Wien) |
| Lina Fuerst | M.Sc. student (moved to student's office at University of Bayreuth) |
| Lorea Garcia San Martin | visiting PhD-student in TBM group (August -October 2016) |
| Anna Goerner | PhD student (now at TU-Dresden, previously coordinator of IMPRS-gBGC) |
| JinHong Guan | Visiting PhD Student now Postdoc Biosphere-Atmosphere Experimentation and Interactions Group |
| Angela Guenther | literature research (moved within MPI to library team) |
| Nikolai Huckle | Internship 01.04. - 31.07.2016 |
| Iulia Ilie | PhD Student |
| Veruschka Jähnert | Information assistant |
| Jean-Philippe Jenny | Postdoc |
| Sonja Kaiser | PhD Student |
| Manos Kalomenopoulos | PhD student |
| Thomas Kloss | Visiting B.Sc. student 03.-04.2008 (Comparison of fAPAR products from different optical sensors) Remote sensing, University of Jena |
| Thijs Koelen | PhD student |
| Myroslava Khomik | Postdoc on soils (moved to Clark University) |
| Christoph Köstler | PostDoc |
| Yogesh Kumkar | PhD student |
| Gitta Lasslop | PhD student (moved for a Post-Doc to MPI for Meteorology Hamburg) |
| Kristina Luus | Postdoc (FACE model-data intercomparison) |
| Olaf Menzer | Diploma Student (moved for a PhD to UC Santa Barbara) |
| Mirco Migliavacca | Visiting PhD student 05.-06.2008 (Model optimization and remote sensing) Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca now group leader Biosphere-Atmosphere Experimentation and Interactions Group |
| Antje Moffat | Postdoc (moved to Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Germany) |
| Cristina Novara | Visiting PhD Student |
| Bruna Oliveira | visiting PhD student in BAE - Cost Action Optimise (Sept.12 th - 24 th 2016 ) |
| Philipp Porada | Postdoc |
| Laura Recuero Pavón | Visiting PhD student (09.01.-29.01.2017 and 01.08.-01.11.2017) |
| Corinne Sacher | moved to BGC grants team as BGC Third-party Coordinator |
| Torben Schick | Master Student |
| Gregor Schuermann | PostDoc (moved to ENERCON ) |
| Franziska Schrodt | PostDoc (Now at the University of Brighton) |
| Sebastian Sippel | PhD student (now PostDoc at ETH Zurich ) |
| Simon Spengler | Visiting student 5th March 2018 until 8th June 2018 |
| Xiaolu Tang | Postdoc |
| Stefany Thiessen | PhD student (soil mesocosm tracer experiments) |
| Martin Thurner | PhD student (now at Stockholm University) |
| Eric Thomas | Technical Assistant |
| Enrico Tomelleri | PostDoc (moved to EUR.AC, Institute for applied remote sensing, Italy) |
| Tina Trautmann | Internship 26.05. - 31.07.2015 (Analysis and evaluation of modelled snow dynamics based on GlobSnow products), now PhD student in Global Diagnostic Modelling Group |
| Marcel Urban | Visiting M.Sc student 02.-04.2009 (Remote sensing data processing) Remote sensing, University of Jena |
| Andreas Vollrath | Bachelor student (moved to ESA Frascati) |
| Jannis von Buttlar | PhD student |
| Birgitta Wiehl | Departmental secretary |
| Xiuchen Wu | PostDoc (moved to LSCE France) |
| Jakob Zscheischler | PhD Student, later PostDoc (Now at the ETH Zürich) |