Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland (PI) 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.

Louis Gerdelan (researcher) is an expert on the history of disasters in the Americas and western Europe, within their broad environmental and intellectual contexts. His research has examined the connections between environmental hazards, climate change and knowledge-making.

Maximilian Wulff (student assistant) social media, literature.

Dr. Claudia Timmreck (PI) is an expert on modeling past and present climate on seasonal to multi-decadal time scales. Her work has mainly focused on the climate impacts of large tropical and extratropical volcanic eruptions and on climate variability over the Common Eras.

Hannah Gaenslen (researcher) works on the interactions between mesoscale convective systems and the Doldrums.

Dr. Julia Windmiller (PI, 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.