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Marlies Path (group assistant). 

Marlies Path is a long-term associate of University of Potsdam. 

Yahaya Bashiru (PhD Student)

Yahaya Bashiru (Bash) based at Leibniz ZMT in Bremen is transitioning to Uni Potsdam as a DAAD Ph.D. student fellow in January 2024. Yahaya works on the West African Monsoon and is running a pilot field study in Senegal. 

Nicolas Da Silva (external postdoc)

Nicolas is a postdoc working on the organization of mesoscale convective systems, their tendency to trigger extreme rainfall, and their evolution in a future warmer climate.

 

Jan O. Haerter (PI)

Jan is professor for computational and climate physics at Uni Potsdam. His main research interest is in tropical convection and the associated circulation. Jan teaches various courses in ClEWS and physics and runs the DakE field campaign.

Diana L. Monroy (PhD Student)

Diana is a PhD student working in shallow convection. Her main project focuses in convective organization observed in stratocumulus clouds using a network approach. She also collaborates actively in the DakE project.

Ashly Wilson (PhD Student)

Ashly is a PhD student working on the interaction of tropical waves with convection and examining their role in mediating multiscale convective organization.

Former team members

Ludovica Gatti Student research assistant (2024-2025)  
Silas Diedrich MSc (2022-2023)  
Jannik Höller PhD (2021-2024) Private industry, Munich, Germany
Irene Livia Kruse PhD (2021-2024) Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Miguel Zornoza PhD (2021-2024) Postdoc, ICTP Trieste, Italy
Christiane Siess MSc (2022-2023) private industry (Deutsche Bahn), Germany
Gorm Gruner Jensen Postdoc (2020-2023) Industry (Xnovotech), Denmark
Faranak Tootoonchi PhD (2018-2022, co-supervision) Postdoc, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Romain Fiévet Postdoc (2018-2022) Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Reyk Börner MSc (2020-2021) PhD, University of Reading, UK
Ronja Gronemeyer MSc (2020-2021) student in philosophy, University of Bremen, Germany
Silas Boye Nissen PhD (2018-2020, co-supervision) Postdoc, Stanford University, USA
Johan Fridrik Kjølbro MSc (2020)  
Maximilian Nitsch intern (2020)  
Jakob Niehues intern (2020) PhD, TU Berlin and PIK, Potsdam, Germany
Mikkel Svendsen MSc (2019-2020)  
Bettina Meyer Postdoc (2016-2019) Industry (Consulting: Risk Management), Switzerland
Silja Borring Låstad BSc (2018-2019) PhD, University of Oslo, Norway
Christian Højer Skjellerup MSc (2018-2019) private industry
Enrico Maria Fenoaltea MSc (2018-2019) PhD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Cecilia Lövkvist PhD (2015-2018, co-supervision) Postdoc, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Marielle Bjerring Fournier MSc (2016-2017) Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Henning Franke BSc (2017, co-supervision) PhD, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Hermann Fuglestvedt MSc (2016-2017) PhD at University of Oslo, Norway
Olga Henneberg Postdoc (2015-2017) private industry (Maersk), Denmark
Kristian Moss Bendtsen PhD co-supervision (2013-2015) Research staff, Novo Nordisk, Denmark
Florian Uekermann PhD co-supervision (2013-2015) private industry, Germany
Giulia Sormani MSc (2014-2015) PhD, SIssa, Trieste, Italy