Dr. Marieke Wesselkamp (she)
Project Group EarthNet
Research Group Model-Data Integration
Main Focus
I am working as a PostDoc in the EarthNet team and WeatherGenerator project, where we develop a foundation model for the land surface. My main tasks in the project are the developement of data-driven prediction heads and benchmark models for short-term forecasting of land surface temperature. This research concerns the representation of land surface processes from an Earth system perspective and the integration of physical knowledge with data-driven models, as well as their validation.
Curriculum Vitae
PostDoc (2025 - *) - Max-Planck-Institute Biogeochemistry. Project: WeatherGenerator. Land surface temperature forecasting as a downstream application of Earth system foundation modeling.
PhD Environmental Sciences (2021 - 2025) - University of Freiburg. Thesis: On the potential and limitations of environmental forecasting with learnt systems.
M.Sc. Environmental Sciences (2019-2021) - University of Freiburg. Thesis: Process-guided transfer learning with small data.
B.Sc. Geography (2013-2019) - University of Freiburg.