Hi!

I am a trained polar climate scientist. I am particularly interested in interactions between ice and ocean and between ice and atmosphere. Also, I like to explore ways of communicating scientific research to peers and larger audiences.

I am currently working as a project scientist at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat (LOCEAN) in the NEMO group on ice-ocean interactions, concerning both ice shelves and sea ice.

Before, I worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement with Nicolas Jourdain on parameterisations of melting at the base of Antarctic ice shelves, as part of the IDEX project DEEP MELT of the University Grenoble Alpes and within the H2020 PROTECT project.

After my PhD, I briefly was as a scientific coordinator for The Earth League, a voluntary international alliance of prominent scientists from world‐class research institutions, who conduct research and advise decision makers about some of the most pressing issues faced by humankind, as a consequence of climate change, depletion of natural resources, land degradation and water scarcity. The topics discussed within the Earth League were exciting so that I realized that I was more interested in being involved creatively in the scientific world than coordinating it.

Before, I conducted my PhD research on: Rethinking the relationship between the observed, simulated and real Arctic sea-ice concentration, supervised by Dirk Notz and Lars Kaleschke at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology and Hamburg University. In my thesis, I looked into the Arctic sea-ice evolution in climate models (CMIP5) and developed an observation operator for the Arctic Ocean, as a new method to compare sea ice as observed by satellites and sea ice as simulated by climate models.

I find (polar) climate science and the scientific process exciting. However, I also think that more communication is necessary within the scientific community and from the scientific community to a more general public. In past years, I was involved in several initiatives promoting knowledge transfer with different formats, e.g. as chief-editor for the EGU Cryosphere Blog, as a co-developer for a role-playing game about Arctic sea-ice melting, as a member of the Twitter editorial team at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, and at the Hamburger Nacht des Wissens.