Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz

Degree Opportunity

Dr. rer. nat.

Research Interests

• Causes and consequences of global climate change
• Global carbon cycle and greenhouse gas budgets
• Land use change and its impact on energy, water and biogeochemical cycles
• Earth system and vegetation modeling

Doctoral Students Supervised

RCC

Geosciences

past:

• Guilherme Mendonca, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Hamburg: 'Response characteristics of the global carbon cycle in earth system models'
• Johannes Winckler, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Hamburg: 'Local and nonlocal biogeophysical effects of deforestation in a climate model'
• Sylvia Nyawira, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Hamburg: 'Modelling the effects of land use change on soil carbon on global scale'
• Dorothea Mayer, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Hamburg: 'Potentials and side-effects of herbaceous biomass plantations for climate change mitigation'
• Victoria Naipal, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Hamburg: 'Modelling long-term, large-scale sediment dynamics in an Earth System Model framework'

present:

• Raphael Ganzenmüller, Ph.D. Geography, University of Munich: 'Verifying greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change in Europe' (VERIFY)

• Suqi Guo, Ph.D. Geography, University of Munich: 'Land management for climate mitigation (LAMACLIMA)'

• Hao-wei Wey, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Hamburg: 'Impact of Forest Drought Response on Land-Atmosphere Interactions'