This page summarizes my scientific career, including memberships, personal skills and practical training.

Content of this page:

Work experience
University Studies
Personal skills and competences
Supervision
Teaching experience
Practical Trainings
School
Memberships and elections

These are the institutes, where I studied or worked:

Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

Institute for Meteorology and Climatology, University of Hannover

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Curriculum Vitae

Work experience


Dates	01. Dec 2013 - today
Position	Research scientist
Main activities and responsibilities	Expert for satellite remote sensing Development of thunderstorm nowcasting Algorithms Project leader of COALITION-2, COALITION-3 and COALITION-4
Name and address of employer	Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss Via ai Monti 146 6605 Locarno-Monti (Switzerland)



Dates	01. Dec 2010 - 30. Nov 2013
Position	Eumetsat fellow
Main activities and responsibilities	Comparison of cloud remote sensing algorithms Co-coordination of the CREW project (now known as International Cloud Working Group of the CGMS)
Name and address of employer	Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 3732 GK De Bilt (Netherlands)



Dates	01. May 2010 - 30. Nov. 2010
Position	Postdoc
Main activities and responsibilities	Improvement of the radiative properties of ice clouds in the climate model ECHAM
Name and address of employer	German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen Muenchener Str. 20 82234 Wessling (Germany)



Dates	03. April 2005 – 30. April 2010
Position	PhD student (final grade: very good)
Title of the thesis	The radiative heating rate in the tropical tropopause region
Main activities and responsibilities	Software development of the radiative transfer model libRadtran, simulation of radiances, fluxes, and heating rates using ECMWF and other data sets
Name and address of employer	German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen Muenchener Str. 20 82234 Wessling (Germany)

Supervision

Dates	01. October 2020 - 31. September 2023
EUMETSAT fellowship	Supervising a three year EUMETSAT fellowship (Jussi Leinonen) Fellowship title: "Thunderstorm Detection and Nowcasting using multi-sensor datasets and advanced Machine Learning"
Dates	01. May 2020 - 31 January 2021
Internship	Supervising a nine months internship (Livia Näf) Trainee in "Development of a multi-sensor nowcasting algrithm of atmospheric instability (temperature and humidity profiles)"
Dates	01. May 2019 - 31. November 2019
Internship	Supervising a seven months internship (Shruti Nath) Trainee in "Optimization of thunderstorm nowcasting and quantification its uncertainty"
Dates	01. July 2018 - 31. March 2019
Internship	Supervising a nine months internship (Joel Zeder) Trainee in "Automatic Generation of Thunderstorm Warnings using Machine Learning Methods"
Dates	01. May 2017 - 31. January 2018
Internship	Supervising a nine months internship (Lea Beusch) Satellite-Based Rainfall Retrieval: From Generalized Linear Models to Artificial Neural Networks
Dates	01. January - 30. September 2016
Internship	Supervising a nine months internship (Elena Leonarduzzi) Internship within COALITION - Second Generation Benefits of satellite observations for thunderstorm nowcasting

Memberships and elections


Dates	2018 → now
Position	Member of the Swiss Commission on Remote Sensing (SKF)

Dates	2018 → now
Position	Representative for Switzerland, MTG User Preparation Group

Dates	2010 → 2015
Position	Member of the scientific advisory commity of the CGMS International Clouds Working Group (formerly named Cloud Retrieval Evaluation Workshop)

Dates	04/2004 - 03/2005
Position	Elected member of the student parliament of the Leibniz University of Hannover

Dates	2000-2004
Position	Member of the student body of a mathematical and physical faculty, co-determination of students for issues of the faculty and university, support support and introductory events for new students.

Personal skills and competences

Computer skills and competences	Sound programming skills (6 years of software development) in C, Fortran 70/90/95, IDL, Matlab, cvs, svn, cdo, html, MPI, gawk, condor, gle, latex, MS-office Experienced with the operating systems Linux, Unix and Windows
Native language	German
Other languages	English (very good) Italian (good) French (basics) Dutch (basics)

Teaching experience

Dates	2003 - 2004
Courses	Two courses in Astrophysics and one course called About glaciers and polar lights for school peoples, who visited the Leibniz University of Hannover in the framework of the Gauß-AG, each course had 10 x 2h, Organisation and content was up to the teacher..

Practical Trainings

Dates	27. August 2018 - 7. September 2018
Kind of training	Machine Learning Summer School 2018
Principal subjects	Modern methods of statistical machine learning, data analysis and inference: Optimization, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, Optimization and Prob. Numerics, Machine learning and causal inference for personalized decision making, Gaussian Processes, Neural Language Models, Kernel Methods, Bayesian Deep Learning, GANs, Reinforcement Learning, Bayesian Non-parametrics
Institution	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Location of the course	Madrid, Spain



Dates	20. May 2015 - 18. October 2015
Kind of training	Exploiting Supercomputers and Containers for Data Science
Principal subjects	Practical training with container technologies such as Docker and Shifter, container deployment for HPC Environments, create and support workloads that are able to run efficiently and easily on platforms ranging from laptops to HPC Centers, respect to portability and reproducibility, containerization of very complex software stacks composed of anything from Python to GPU-enabled code.
Institution	CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Location of the course	Zurich, Switzerland



Dates	20. May 2015 - 18. October 2015
Kind of training	Coursera course on Machine learning
Principal subjects	(i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). (ii) Unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning). (iii) Best practices in machine learning (bias/variance theory; innovation process in machine learning and AI).
Institution	https://www.coursera.org/
Location of the course	online training course



Dates	04. May 2015 - 07. May 2015
Kind of training	Python Onsite Training Course
Principal subjects	Python Programming
Institution	Bernd Klein https://www.python-kurs.eu
Location of the course	Locarno, Switzerland



Dates	10. June - 28. October 2011
Kind of training	Satellite Image Interpretation and Applications Course
Principal subjects	Satellite remote sensing
Institution	Eumetcal / EUMeTrain
Location of the course	online training course



Dates	15. - 20. September 2008
Kind of training	Advanced Atmospheric Training Course
Principal subjects	Radiative transfer, satellite remote sensing, validation, assimilation
Institution	European Space Agency
Location of the course	University of Oxford, Great Britain



Dates	03. - 15. October 2005
Kind of training	Cargese international school
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered	Upper Troposphere, lower stratosphere (observation, assimilation, modeling)
Program	Cost Action 723
Location of the course	Cargese, Corse, France



Dates	01. July 2000 - 20. August 2000
Kind of training	Practical training
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered	Gravity waves in the atmosphere
Name and type of organisation	German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen Muenchener Str. 20 82234 Wessling (Germany)

University Studies

Dates	01. November 2003 - 30. March 2005
Title of qualification awarded	Diploma of meteorology (final grade: very good)
Title of the thesis	The Development of the Monte-Carlo transfer model PROMT
Name and type of organisation	Institute for Meteorology and Climatology Leibniz University of Hannover Herrenhaeuser Str. 2, 30419 Hanover, Germany



Dates	01. August 2002 - 31. July 2003
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered	Studies of arctic geophysics (remote sensing, oceanography, polar meteorology, processes in snow and ice, radar diagnostic of space plasma)
Name and type of organisation	The University Center in Svalbard, UNIS Longyearbyen, Norway



Dates	01. October 2000 - 31. July 2002
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered	Studies of meteorology (radiative transfer, synoptics, turbulence, boundary layer theory, thermodynamics, convection, remote sensing)
Name and type of organisation	Institute for Meteorology and Climatology Leibniz University of Hannover Herrenhaeuser Str. 2, 30419 Hanover, Germany



Dates	01. October 1998 - 30. September 2000
Title of qualification awarded	Intermediate Diploma (Vordiplom) in Physics (final grade: very good)
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered	University courses in linear algebra, analysis, experimental and theoretical physics, basics of meteorology...
Name and type of organisation	Faculty for mathematics and physics Leibniz University of Hannover Appelstr. 2, 30167 Hanover, Germany

School

Dates	01. August 1984 - 31. July 1997
Title of qualification awarded	German school leaving examination "Abitur" (final grade: very good)
Name and address of the school	Georg-Buechner-Gymnasium Hirtenweg 20 30926 Seelze, Germany