PrincipaI Investigators
We are a team of three scientists at different career stages and with different expertise. What we have in common is our curiosity to leave the beaten track and enter new scientific territories. We believe that our interdisciplinary approach could lead to a true breakthrough in general and in each of our disciplines, and may open the pathways for further research avenues.
Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland (Universität Bielefeld is an expert on climate and disaster history with a specific focus on the impact of hurricanes on past societies in the Americas. Since her undergraduate studies, Rohland was interested in connecting her historical research of disasters with the present, which led to many interdisciplinary collaborations.
Dr. Claudia Timmreck (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) is an expert on modeling past and present climate on seasonal to multi-decadal time scales. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, many of which related to the climate impacts of large tropical and extratropical volcanic eruptions and to climate variability over the Common Eras.
Dr. Julia Windmiller (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Monash University) is an expert on tropical convection, with a focus on the Atlantic TCZ and the doldrums. She has participated as co-principal investigator and co-chief scientist in ship- and aircraft-based campaigns in the tropical Atlantic. Her research revealed that the Atlantic ITCZ has a long-overlooked inner life which challenged a textbook explanation for the existence of the doldrums.
