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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 (currently still at Leibniz ZMT, Bremen) is an external postdoc working on mesoscale convective systems and their development into extreme events.

Silas Diedrich (M.Sc. Student)

Silas joined as a M.Sc. student from TU Berlin (physics) in October 2023 and is working on the conditions under which extreme convective events and, in particular, mesoscale convective systems (MCS), arise in Europe. 

Ludovica Gatti (student research assistant)

Ludovica is joining as a student research assistant in January 2024.

Jan O. Haerter (PI)

Jan leads the team and has an interest in complex systems and the climate, in particular convection.

Diana Monroy Merida (PhD Student, from January 2024)

Diana has a background in statistical physics and is joining the team from January 2024, welcome Diana!

Former team members

Name Role (timespan) Subsequent destination
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