Biography

As a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in the Earth Observation Centre, I am an expert in climate change and atmospheric dynamics throughout the whole atmosphere. I did an interdisciplinary PhD (geography and physics) in climate and environmental sciences focusing on the impact of climate change on large-scale weather patterns.
I was the first visiting scientist at the Science Hub under Aeolus+Innovation, both as a scientist and LISA project leader. Now I have the same role in the QUID-REGIS project within the Swarm 4D Ionosphere ITT. I am happy to share my experience and learn more about atmospheric dynamics.

Research

In order to better understand climate change and its impacts, it is fundamental to understand the general state of the atmosphere and therefore the atmospheric dynamics. Planetary waves are global-scale waves that are known to be the main drivers of large-scale weather patterns in the mid-latitudes on time scales of days to weeks in the troposphere. Changes of planetary waves directly result in changes of our weather patterny and therewith extreme weather events, intensity, frequence and blocking. The question is, whether and how the structural characteristics of these waves change, and what the consequences are.