Career Profile

As an analytical meteorologist I am inspired by new and complex problems, which I can solve by creative approaches. From the development and application of numerical and statistical climate models I own comprehensive experience in analysis and visualization of large data sets. I can produce and communicate results clearly and unambiguously to broad audiences.

Education

PhD in Earth System Science

2013 - 2018
University of Hamburg

Climate variability and potential future climate change in southern Amazonia: sensitivity of the hydrological cycle to land use changes

MSc in Meteorogoly

2011 - 2012
University of Hamburg

Future Climates from Bias-Bootstrapped Weather Analogs: An Application to the Amazon River Basin Projecting the climate for the Amazon river basin with a statistical model.

Bachelor of Science in Meteorology

2010
University of Hamburg

Klimaeffekt der Kuwae-Eruption 1453 - Investigation of climate changes due to the Kuwae eruption in 1453 in the Millienium experiment Max–Plank-Institute of Meteorology

Experiences

Senior Model Developer

2022 - Present
anemos Gesellschaft für Umweltmeteorologie mbH, Germany
  • Development of a new anemos-wind-atlas
  • Participation in scientific research
  • Creation of wind appraisals

Post-Doctoral Researcher

2017 - Present
University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Dynamical and statistical downscaling of weather data, development of a webtool for risk assessment of bark beetle spread – IpsPro project
  • Regional climate simulation and climate impact studies on land use changes in the region of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia – Prodigy project

Data analyst

2015 - 2016
University of Hamburg, Germany

Data analysis, pre-processing and calculation of drought indices in the working package one (WP1) – EIT Climate-KIC grant WINnERS (Weather INdex-based wEather-driven Risk Services) project

Climate Modeller

2013 - 2015
University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Simuating high resolution weather and climate data for regional climate modelling in the Himalayan region – CLASH
  • WRF simulations and climate modelling in the regional of southern Amazonia with a focus on Brazil – CarBioCial

Researcher

2012 - 2013
University of Hamburg, Germany

Statistical climate simulations for climate predictions – Aksu Tarim

Additional Experience

Supervisor - Master thesis: Improving long-term wind energy production estimates: Sensitivity of methods and reference data. Finalized: Dec 2019
Supervisor - Bachelor thesis: Analysis of Geopolitical responses to retreating sea ice in the arctic
Student Assistant - Centre for Science and Peace Research Student assistant: Modeling and simulation of Krypton-85 radio nucleid emissions
Lecturer - Introduction to WRF: dynamic downscaling and weather prediction, Course 2019

Publications

  • Simulation of Atmospheric Noble Gas Transport to Assess Sampling Procedures for Locating Unreported Reprocessing (IAEA-CN–184)
  • Klingberg, F. J., Hebel, S., Kilian, M., Kalinowski, Martin B., & Wotawa,Gerhard
    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 2010
  • Development and implementation of a hierarchical model chain for modelling regional climate variability and climate change over southern Amazonia. Interdisciplinary Analysis and Modeling of Carbon-Optimized Land Management Strategies for Southern Amazonia.
  • Böhner, J., Aurelio, M., Dietrich, H., Fraedrich, K., Kawohl, T., Kilian, M., Lucarini, V. & Lunkeit, F.
    Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2014. Doi 10.17875/gup2014-741, 2014
  • Future yields of double-cropping systems in the Southern Amazon, Brazil, under climate change and technological development
  • Hampf, A., Stella, T., Berg-Mohnicke, M., Kawohl, T., Kilian, M., Nendel, C.
    Agricultural Systems. Volume 177, January 2020, Elsevier. Doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102707

    Skills & Proficiency

    Python

    R

    Fortran

    C & C++

    Java & Java Script

    Unix scripting

    HTML

    NCL

    Matlab

    SQL

    Latex

    Git

    Android app developement

    Unix, Windos, Office, HPC, SAGA GIS, CDO