Curriculum vitae
September 1998 -
February 2004University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space SciencesPh.D. in Atmospheric and Space Sciences and Scientific Computing
Advisor: Prof. Joyce Penner
Ph.D. Dissertation: Adaptive Grids in Weather and Climate Modeling.
This work includes a baroclinic wave test case for the dynamical cores of General Circulation Models.
Research topic in 1999: Cloud/Aerosol Parameterizations
October 1994 -
September
1998University of Bonn (Germany), Department of Meteorology (in German)
Major: Meteorology, graduation in November 1998: Diplom-Meteorologin (diploma in meteorology), comparable to M.S. degree
Minors: Physical Chemistry (Spectroscopy, Chemical Kinetics), Geophysics
Diploma thesis: Test of the Dynamics of two global Weather Prediction Models of the German Weather Service: The Held-Suarez Test
October 1992 -
September
1994RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany)
Major: Physics, graduation in September 1994: Physik-Vordiplom (first diploma degree in physics)
Minor: Computer Science and Numerical Methods
September 1989 -
August
1992RWTH Aachen University, IT CenterTraining as a Mathematical-Technical Assistant at the IT Center of the RWTH Aachen University
Team: Vector computers and Parallel Computing
September 2021 - today
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAProfessor
September 2012 - August 2021t
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (formerly AOSS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAAssociate Professor
September 2006 - August 2012
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences (AOSS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAAssistant Professor
March 2006 -
August 2006Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA, Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics DivisionVisiting Scientist
February 2004 -
February 2006National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA, Advanced Study Program & Computational & Information Systems LaboratoryPostdoctoral researcher
September 2000 -
December 2003University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space SciencesFellowship Holder / Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), Team: Prof. Joyce Penner
Ph.D. Research Project: Adaptive Grids in Weather and Climate Modeling
June 2000 -
August 2000National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA, Climate and Global Dynamics Division
Visiting Scientist, Team: Atmospheric Modeling & Predictability Section
Project: Development of a deterministic test case (growing baroclinic wave) for the dynamical cores of general circulation models. Model intercomparison involving four dynamical cores used at NCAR.
May 1999 - May
2000University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space SciencesGraduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), Team: Prof. Joyce Penner
Research Project: Cloud/Aerosol Parameterizations: Application and Improvement of General Circulation Models
September 1998 -
April 1999University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space SciencesGraduate Student Instructor (GSI) for the course: Introduction to Global Change I & II., Team: Prof. Timothy Killeen
February 1995 -
October
1997 & March 1998 - August 1998German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), St. Augustin, Germany, (today's Fraunhofer Institue)
Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI)Student research assistant at SCAI
Research project: Tests of the shallow water model of the German Weather Service (DWD)
Diploma thesis: Test of the Dynamics of two global Weather Prediction Models of the German Weather Service: The Held-Suarez Test
November 1997 -
January
1998European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, EnglandConsultant, Team 'Numerical Aspects' (in collaboration with Mariano Hortal, Clive Temperton & Agathe Untch)
Research project: Test of the dynamical core of the ECMWF weather prediction model IFS, Held-Suarez test method
August 1997
German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD), Offenbach, GermanyVisiting Scientist (Research and Development Division)
Collaborator: Detlev Majewski
Research area: Analysis of the dynamical core of the numerical weather prediction model GME (icosahedral mesh), Held-Suarez experiments
July 1996 - March
1998Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Cologne. GermanyPart-time computer consultant
Tasks: solve general computing problems on Siemens Nixdorf / Fujitsu vector-parallel computers (VPP series), user support, portability tests and software modifications
February 1994 -
March 1994Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Aachen, GermanyComputer consultant during the semester break
Tasks: test of the weather prediction model of the 'Geophysikalischer Beratungsdienst der Bundeswehr' on a Siemens Nixdorf/Fujitsu VP vector computer
August 1993German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD), Offenbach, Germany4-week internship at DWD (Weather forecast & Climate division)
Tasks: analysis of weather maps, development of software for climatological data sets
September 1992 -
September
1994RWTH Aachen University, IT CenterPart-time computer consultant at the IT Center of the RWTH Aachen University
Team: Vector computers and Parallel Computing
Towards the Simulation of Tropical Cyclones in High-Resolution GCMs, Invited presentation at the Workshop on Numerical Methods for Scale Interactions, Hamburg, Germany, September 21-23, 2011 (first author: Kevin Reed)
Evaluating the impact of dissipative subgrid-scale mixing processes in the dynamical cores of NCAR's Community Atmosphere Model, Department of Energy (DoE) Climate and Earth System Modeling Program Team Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, September 19-22, 2011 (first author: Jared Whitehead)
High-Order Methods and Nonhydrostatic Designs on Quasi-Uniform and Variable-Resolution Grids: Tackling the Numerical Challenges for Future-Generation GCMs, Invited presentation at the Global-to-Regional Climate Simulation Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, USA, August 3-5, 2011
A High-Order Finite-Volume Scheme for the Dynamical Core of Weather and Climate Models, Invited presentation at the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) Conference, Denver, CO, USA, July 10-14, 2011
Tackling the numerical challenges of future-generation climate models: High-order methods, nonhydrostatic designs, variable-resolution and cubed-sphere grids, and how to test models, Invited presentation at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), Workshop 'Societally Relevant Computing', Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 11-15, 2011
A High-Order Finite-Volume Scheme for the Dynamical Core of Weather and Climate Models, Poster presentation at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), Workshop 'Societally Relevant Computing', Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 11-15, 2011
A Family of High-Order Finite-Volume Schemes for Simulating Atmospheric Flows, Presentation at SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, USA, March 21-24, 2011 (first author: Paul A. Ullrich)
A High-Order Finite-Volume Technique for Nonhydrostatic Dynamical Cores on (Adaptive) Cubed-Sphere Grids, Invited presentation at NCAR/UKMO/NCAS Workshop on Next Generation Weather and Climate Models, Boulder, CO, USA, March 7-9, 2011
Evaluating the impact of the CAM 5 dynamical core in idealized tropical cyclone simulations, Presentation at the 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA, Jan. 23-27, 2011 (first author: Kevin A. Reed), listen to the recorded presentation
Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations of Intermediate Complexity: A Test Case for Atmospheric GCMs, Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 13-17, 2010
The Pros and Cons of Diffusion, Filters and Fixers in Atmospheric General Circulation Models, Invited presentation at the Geoforschungszentrum (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences), Potsdam, Germany, August 30, 2010
Complementing the Hierarchy of GCM Test Cases: Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations of Intermediate Complexity, Presentation at the Workshop on Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Potsdam, Germany, August 24-27, 2010
Evaluating the Impact of the GCM Dynamical Core in Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations, Presentation at the Workshop on High-Resolution Global Modeling, Fort Collins, CO, USA, June 15-17, 2010
Idealized Tropical Cyclone Experiments in High-Resolution AGCMs, Poster presentation at the Workshop on High-Resolution Global Modeling, Fort Collins, CO, USA, June 15-17, 2010 (first author: Kevin A. Reed)
The Design of Future-Generation Dynamical Cores and GCMs, Invited presentation at the IPAM Culminating Workshop, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA, June 7-11, 2010
Idealized Tropical Cyclones in Atmospheric General Circulation Models: The Impact of the Dynamical Core, Poster presentation at the 29th AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Tucson, USA, AZ, May 10-14, 2010
Idealized tropical cyclones in atmospheric general circulation models: sensitivity to convective parameterizations , Presentation at the 29th AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Tucson, AZ, USA, May 10-14, 2010 (first author: Kevin A. Reed), listen to the recorded presentation
An Analysis of Finite-Volume schemes: High-order Methods and Grid Reflections on Adaptive Grids, Invited presentation at the NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Workshop II: Numerical Hierarchies for Climate Modeling, Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 16, 2010
Divergence Damping: Is Additional Diffusion "Good" for Stability?, Poster Presentation at the DoE Science Team Meeting, Earth System Modeling (ESM) Program, Washington D.C., USA, March 31, 2010 (first author: Jared Whitehead)
On the Design of Dynamical Cores for Atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs): Physical and Computational Challenges (Part II), Tutorial at the NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 16, 2010
On the Design of Dynamical Cores for Atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs): Physical and Computational Challenges (Part I), Tutorial at the NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 10, 2010
On the Design of Dynamical Cores for Atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs): Numerical and Scientific Challenges, Tutorial at the NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 9, 2010
Introducing Software Infrastructure into the Climate Modeling Curriculum, Kick-off Meeting of the NOAA Global Interoperability Program (GIP), Princeton, NJ, Nov. 5-6, 2009
Adaptive Mesh Refinement on the Sphere: Insights into computational grids, wave propagation and diffusion properties, Invited minisymposium talk at the conference ICOSAHOM 09, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-26, 2009
The FV-Cube Dynamical Core in NCAR's Community Atmosphere Model CAM, Poster presentation at the 14th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, USA, June 15-18, 2009
A test suite for GCMs: An intercomparison of 10 atmospheric dynamical cores (Apr. 28, 2009), Presentation at the Workshop on Solutions to Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Santa Fe, USA, April 27-30, 2009
Subgrid-Mixing in Climate Models: A Novel Look at Diffusion, Accuracy and Climate Sensitivity (Apr. 8, 2009), Poster Presentation at the DOE Climate Change Prediction Program Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA, April 7-9, 2009
The Pros and Cons of Adaptive Meshes in Atmospheric Finite Volume Models (Mar. 25, 2009), Invited Presentation at Workshop Multi-scale Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Reading, UK, 25-26, 2009
An Intercomparison of 10 Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores (Dec. 17, 2008), Poster Presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 15-19, 2008
Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) for Multi-Scale Climate Models, Invited seminar presentation at Harvard University, Boston, MA, October 17, 2008
Test Cases for Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores (Sep. 24, 2008), Invited presentation at the NCAR Workshop on Global Atmospheric Dynamical Cores, Boulder, CO, USA, Sep. 24-25, 2008
Adaptive Mesh Refinements for Weather and Climate Models (July 10, 2008), Invited presentation at the SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, July 7-11, 2008
The Dynamical Core Experiment: An Overview of the 2008 NCAR ASP Colloquium, Poster Presentation at the 13th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, USA, June 17-19, 2008, download the poster in gif format (2.4 MB)
Numerical Noise: The Pros and Cons of Filters, Diffusion and Damping Mechanisms (June 6, 2008), NCAR ASP Summer Colloquium, Boulder, CO, USA, June 2-13, 2008
Adaptive Grids for Atmospheric General Circulation Models (June 5, 2008), NCAR ASP Summer Colloquium, Boulder, CO, USA, June 2-13, 2008
Idealized Test Cases for Dynamical Core Experiments (June 3, 2008), NCAR ASP Summer Colloquium, Boulder, CO, USA, June 2-13, 2008
In-depth look at the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in the FV model (Dec 5, 2007), Invited presentation at the Kakushin Workshop, Kyoto, Japan
Adaptive Mesh Refinements (AMR) for Multi-Scale Climate Models (Dec 3, 2007), Invited presentation at the APCOM '07-EPMESC XI conference, Kyoto, Japan
Adaptive Grids for Multi-Scale Dynamical Cores: Cubed-Spheres versus Latitude-Longitude Grids (Sep. 26, 2007), Presentation at the 2007 Workshop on the Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere (PDEs on the Sphere), Exeter, United Kingdom, September 24-27, 2007
Adaptive Mesh Refinements (AMR) for Multi-Scale Climate Models (Sep. 19, 2007), Poster presentation at the DoE Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP) Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, USA, Sep. 17-19, 2007
Adaptive Mesh Refinements (AMR) for Multi-Scale Climate Models (Aug. 28, 2007), Poster presentation at the Second International Conference on Earth System Modeling, Hamburg, Germany, August 27-31, 2007
On the Existence and Non-Existence of QBO-like Oscillations in Dynamical Cores of General Circulation Models (Jun. 27, 2007), Presentation at the 16th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AMS meeting), Santa Fe, NM, USA, June 24-29, 2007
Adaptive Meshes on the Sphere: Cubed-Spheres versus Latitude-Longitude Grids (May 31, 2007), Presentation at the ICON & Friends Workshop, Langen, Germany, May, 29 - June, 1, 2007
A Proposed Test Suite for Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores, Poster presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 11-15, 2006
Adaptive Meshes on the Sphere: Cubed-Spheres versus Latitude-Longitude Grids (Dec. 8, 2006), Seminar presentation, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
A Proposed Test Suite for Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores, Presentation at the 2006 Workshop on the Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Monterey, CA, USA, June 26 - 29, 2006, view the presentation
Quasi-Biennial (QBO)-like Oscillations in Idealized Dynamical Core Experiments (June 27, 2006), Presentation at the 2006 Workshop on the Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Monterey, CA, USA, June 26 - 29, 2006
A Proposed Test Suite for Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores Poster presentation at the 11th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 20 - 22, 2006Adaptive Mesh Refinements for Future Weather and Climate Models (May 10, 2006), Seminar presentation, Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY
Adaptive Grids for Future Weather and Climate Models (November 18, 2005), Seminar presentation, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
QBO-like Oscillations in Dynamical Core Experiments, Poster presentation at the 10th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 21 - 23, 2005QBO-like Oscillations in Dynamical Core Experiments, Presentation at the AMS meetings: 13th Conference on Middle Atmosphere, 15th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, 7th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 12 - 17, 2005
Adaptive Grids for Future Weather Prediction Models (June 8, 2005), Presentation at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Avignon, France, June 7 - 10, 2005
Adaptive Grids for Weather and Climate Models (June 3, 2005), Seminar presentation at the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique du CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure (LMD/ENS), Paris, France
Adaptive Grids for Future Weather Prediction Models (April 27, 2005), Presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2005
Adaptive Grids for Weather and Climate Models (September 9, 2004), Presentation at the ECMWF 2004 Seminar on Recent Developments in Numerical Methods for Atmospheric and Ocean Modelling, Reading, UK, September 6 - 10, 2004
An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Strategy for Future GCMs (July 23, 2004), Presentation at the 2004 Workshop on the Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Yokohama, Japan, July 20 - 23, 2004
Adaptive Grids for Weather and Climate Models, Poster presentation at the 9th Annual CCSM Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, July 7 - 9, 2004
Adaptive Mesh Refinements for Weather and Climate Models (March 29, 2004), Presentation at the 8th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (Minisymposium), Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA, March 28 - April 2, 2004
Adaptive Grids in Climate Modeling: Dynamical Core Tests (December 08, 2003), Presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting 2003 , San Francisco, California, USA, December 8 - 12, 2003 (click here for the mountain flow movie (5.3 MB mpeg) and advection movie (4.3 MB mpeg))
Adaptive Grids in Climate and Weather Modeling (March 31, 2003), Seminar presentation, VIGRE Working Group in Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
New idealized test cases for dynamical cores (August 12, 2002), Presentation at the 2002 Workshop on the Solutions of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 12 - August 15, 2002
Adaptive Methods in Weather and Climate Modeling (February 5, 2002), Presentation at the NCAR Workshop on Adaptive and High-Order Methods with Applications in Turbulence, Boulder, Colorado, USA, February 4-6, 2002
Towards a standardized test suite for dynamical core intercomparisons: Growing baroclinic waves (May 18, 2001), Presentation at the 2001 Workshop on the Solutions of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 15 - May 18, 2001
The Dynamical Core Intercomparison Project: Approaches to analyzing dynamical core experiments (December 1, 1999), Presentation at the 8th Workshop on the Solutions of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, San Francisco, California, USA, November 30 - December 3, 1999
Test of three dynamical cores: A discussion about the new DWD global model GME, the operational DWD model GM and the ECMWF model IFS (April 28, 1998), Presentation at the
Recipient of the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (awarded in September 2011)
press release by the White House on 9/26/2011: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/26/president-obama-honors-outstanding-early-career-scientistsDepartment of Energy Early Career Award (April 2010)
University of Michigan AOSS Faculty Award (March 2010)
NCAR Postdoctoral Fellowship (Advanced Study Program), February 2004 - February 2006
University of Michgan Graduate Student Distinguished Achievement Award 2004 (College of Engineering), March 2004
Keith Runcorn Travel Award for Non-Europeans (KRTA), European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2005
Invitation to the Summer School MAMAOS,
Modern Applied Mathematics for the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Jul/13-27/2003NASA Graduate Student Fellowship (Earth System Science Fellowship Program), September 2000 - August 2003
Invitation to the Scientific Computing Workshop: 'How can ACTS work for you?',
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Sep/28-30/2000Winner of a fellowship for a three month stay at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado (USA), Climate and Global Dynamics Division (June-August 2000), awarded by the German National Research Center for Information Technology, October 1999 (GMD, St. Augustin, Germany).
Winner in the open competition 'Best Projects at the German National Research Center for Information Technology in 1999, St. Augustin, Germany), category 'Diploma Thesis':
Award 'Best Diploma Thesis at GMD in 1999' (October 1999): Test of the dynamics of two global weather prediction models of the German Weather Service: The Held-Suarez test
