Dr. Sophia Walther
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:
Projects:
Personal Projects:
- Vegetation and drought: towards improved data-driven estimates of ecosystem carbon fluxes under moisture stress (Vad3e mecum),
ESA Living Planet Fellowship (https://eo4society.esa.int/lpf/sophia-walther/) , 06/2020-06/2022
Contributions to:
- 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)
Outreach:
-
I'm a scientist - get me out of here answering pupils questions on climate change
- column for German Climate Consortium (Deutsches KlimaKonsortium)
- interview contribution to newspaper articles in Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Das Leuchten des Waldes" and "Da leuchtet was"
- project days for schools at university and guided tours through the measurement field at FU Berlin
- long nights of sciences
Curriculum Vitae
since 2018: PostDoc in the Global Diagnostic Modelling Group and co-lead of the Fluxcom initiative
2014 - 2018: PhD candidate, 'Assessment of the dynamics of terrestrial vegetation using satellite observations of greenness and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence'
- Institute for Space Sciences, Free University Berlin (03-10/2014)
- Helmholtz Geophysical Research Centre Potsdam (11/2014-02/2018)
- Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy (09-12/2016, 05-07/2017)
2019: Ernst-Reuter-Price of the Free University Berlin for one of the best five theses in 2018
MSc Meteorology, Free University Berlin
BSc Meteorology, Free University Berlin