Main Focus
Arctic permafrost degradation due to climate heating
- Investigating carbon emission from thawing permafrost with the Eddy Covariance Method
- Understanding permafrost carbon feedback with idealized Large Eddy Simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Nonlinear gravity waves and stability theory
- Laboratory experiments of gravity waves in gas centrifuges
- Stability of the equatorial atmosphere
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 PhD at Free University of Berlin, “Finite-amplitude gravity waves in the atmosphere: traveling wave solutions and stability”, Summa cum laude
2012 Diplom (German equivalent of masters degree) in physics at University of Rostock, Germany
2011 Visiting student at Stockholm University, Sweden
Academic Positions
2018–2021 Research associate at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Free University of Berlin
2017–2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
2013–2017 PhD student at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
at Free University of Berlin, Germany
Awards
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (2017)
Jury prize for presentation at competition “Rostock’s eleven” (2013)
Teaching
Supervision
Master thesis in physics on “Internal waves in a gas centrifuge” (2019-2020).
Courses
Workshop: on Eddy Covariance Method for International Max Planck Research School for Global Biochemical Cycles (2022),
Seminar: PDEs in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Free University of Berlin (SS2021),
Tutorial: Numerical Analysis II at Free University of Berlin (WS20/21),
Tutorial: Mathematics in Climate Modeling at Free University of Berlin (WS20/21),
Tutorial: Analysis (Calculus) II at Free University of Berlin (WS14/15),
Tutorial: Numerical methods for conservation laws at Free University of Berlin (SS2014),
Tutorial: Analysis (Calculus) I at Free University of Berlin (WS2014)
Other activities and outreach
Elected postdoc representative at MPI BGC (since 2022)
Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review (2020-2022)
Elected representative of the Early Career Scientists (ECS) of DFG research group “Mul-
tiscale Dynamics of Gravity Waves” (MS-GWaves) (2019–2021)
Co-organizer of MS-GWaves ECS workshop in Cottbus (2020)
Co-organizer of the annual Long Night of Sciences at the Institute for Mathematics of
the Free University of Berlin (2016-2019)