Curriculum Vitae

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since 2023 Founding Director
at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

since 2024 Co-lead of Earth Resilience Science Unit (ERSU)
at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

since 2020   Professor of Climate System Analysis
at University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy
and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

2019 - 2024 Leader of PIK Working Group on Ice Dynamics

2019 - 2024 Co-Leader of ERAlab
FutureLab on Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene.

2019 - 2024 Principal Investigator in H2020-project TiPACCs
on Tipping Points in Antarctic Climate Components.

since 2010    Co-developer of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)

2015 - 2019    Junior Professor of Climate System Analysis
at University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy
and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

01/2018 - 03/2018    Scientific Expedition to Antarctica
ANT-XXXIII/2 on research vessel Polarstern, operated by Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

2013 - 2014    Visiting Investigator
at Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA.

2012 - 2014    Postdoctoral Researcher
at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

2008 - 2012    Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude)
on The Future Sea-Level Contribution from Antarctica - Projections of Solid Ice Discharge
at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.