Function and Responsibilities:

• Senior scientist in the program "The Atmosphere in Global Change"
  

Publications:

• Please follow my account at Web of Science with the publication list and some additional information (H index, collaboration networks, etc.) or ORCID.

• Maryam Ramezani Ziarani, Characterization of atmospheric processes related to hydro-meteorological extreme events over the south-central Andes, Universität Potsdam, 2015-2020
• Antonia Faber, Gravity wave analysis with GPS radio occultation data from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC, Freie Universität Berlin, 2009-2013, [Link]

Master mentoring:

• Jhnyaneshwari G. Balaramaiah (Kusum): Climatological analysis of GPS radio occultation data with focus on sampling error, Technische Universität Berlin, 2021-2022
• Büsra Korkmaz: Evaluation of ground based water vapor observations from global navigation satellite system and microwave radiometers, Technische Universität Berlin, 2019-2020
• Linda Nakhulo Ochwada: Location analysis of potential high altitude wind power in Germany, Technische Universität Berlin, 2017-2018

Bachelor mentoring:

• Lena Schoon, Characteristic temperature anomalies in the UTLS from GPS radio occultation data (in German), Freie Universität Berlin, 2013
• Peter Voß, An automatic software system for the statistically evaluation of radio occultation data and additional meteorological model data (in German), University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg, 2008
  

Working areas:

• Atmospheric physics, climatology
• Radio occultations: retrieval development and data processing
• Application of radio occultation data
  • Temperature monitoring of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-40 km)
  • Structure and variability of the tropopause
  • Gravity wave analysis
• Development, design and support of operational data prozessing systems for radio occultation data of different satellite missions (CHAMP, GRACE, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, GRACE-FO)
• Operation of microwave radiometer for the estimation of atmospheric parameters (e.g. water vapour)
  

Education:

• 1984-1989: Study of Meteorology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
  

• 1991-1996: Project scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
  

• 1991-1993: Station leader of the German Koldewey station in Ny-Aalesund (Spitsbergen, Norway)

• 1995/96: Meteorologist of the wintering team at the German Neumayer station (Antarctica)

• 1996-1998: Project scientist at the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Leipzig, Germany
  

• 1998-1999: Project scientist at the Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen, Germany
  

• 1999: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.): "Validation of aerosol models"
  

• since November 1999: Scientist at GFZ Potsdam, Germany
  

Projects:

• Co-PI of the project "Characterization of atmospheric processes related to hydro-meteorological extreme events over the south-central Andes" within the International Research Training Group StRATEGy at the University of Potsdam (2015-2020) funded by the DFG

• PI of the BMBF project AGWOM (Atmospheric Gravity Waves: Observation and Modeling) in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the Austral University Buenos Aires (2014-2018)

• Co-operation in Reklim Chemistry-climate interactions

• GeoClim within Miklip (2011-2015)

• Mass transport: Improved DE-ALiasing for Gravity Field Modelling with GRACE (IDEAL-GRACE), 2006-2009

• Geo-technology: Provision and usage of global atmospheric data from CHAMP and GRACE in near-real time (NRT‐RO), 2005-2008

• CAWSES I: Gravity wave coupling processes and their decadal variation (GW-CODE), 2005-2008

• Lindenberg Aerosol Characterization Experiment 1998 (LACE 98), 1998
  

• Second Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-2), 1996-1998
  

Research Boards and Committees:

• Member of the SPARC temperature trends group

• Member of the IROWG sub-working group of climate

• Associate Editor for Advances in Space Research(Earth sciences)