Dr. Sophia Walther (she/her)
PostDoc
Main Focus
- Dynamics of the terrestrial carbon cycle and effects of vegetation on it
- Satellite-based remote sensing of vegetation
- data-driven modelling of biogenic land-atmosphere fluxes combining eddy-covariance measurements with Earth observations through machine learning (www.fluxcom.org)
- special interest in water availability effects globally, and high latitude ecosystems
Peer-reviewed publications:
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A comprehensive list of my publication record can be found on my ORCID page.
Projects:
current projects:
- ITMS B_I, Q&S_I, TORCH (BMBF)
contributions to past projects:
- Vegetation and drought: towards improved data-driven estimates of ecosystem carbon fluxes under moisture stress (Vad3e mecum), personal ESA Living Planet Fellowship (https://eo4society.esa.int/lpf/sophia-walther/) , 06/2020 - 06/2022
- H2020 project VERIFY (http://verify.lsce.ipsl.fr/, ended 2022)
- ESA CCI LST phase 1 (ended 2021)
- H2020 project CHE (https://www.che-project.eu/, ended 2020)
Curriculum Vitae
since 2024: project group leader of the project group STELLA in the Global Diagnostic Modelling Group, co-lead of the Fluxcom initiative
2018 - 2023: PostDoc in the Global Diagnostic Modelling Group and co-lead of the Fluxcom initiative
2018: PhD, 'Assessment of the dynamics of terrestrial vegetation using satellite observations of greenness and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence'
- Institute for Space Sciences, Free University Berlin, Helmholtz Geophysical Research Centre Potsdam, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
MSc Meteorology, Free University Berlin
BSc Meteorology, Free University Berlin