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Prof. Markus Reichstein
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Director of the Biogeochemical Integration Department at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and Professor for Global Geoecology at the University of Jena – WP1-4
- USMILE co-PI
- Personal webpage
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Bernhard Ahrens*
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Scientist – WP2
- Hybrid modeling of soil processes ranging from radiocarbon to heterotrophic respiration.
- Techniques: universal differential equations and physics-informed neural networks.
- Personal webpage
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Lazaro Alonso Silva
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Research Scientist
- Model efficiencies, neural networks, LSTMs, transformers. Hybrid modelling. Visual analytics.
- Personal webpage
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Zavud Baghirov
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher
- Combining deep learning models with physical models using different Earth observation data to develop a global model of (coupled) water and carbon cycles. Quantifying the uncertainties in hybrid modelling.
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Dr. Ana Bastos*
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Group leader – WP3
- Climate extreme impacts and memory effects.
- Personal webpage
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Vitus Benson
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Partial associate (pre-doctoral) – WP3
- Spatio-temporal prediction of localized impacts to extreme weather.
- Personal webpage
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Dr. Nuno Carvalhais*
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Group leader of the Model-Data Integration research group of the Department Biogeochemical Integration.
- Terrestrial ecosystems; model-data integration; hybrid modeling.
- Personal webpage
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Dr. Gregory Duveiller
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Research Scientist -WP1 and WP2
- Investigating land-climate interactions based on satellite remote sensing.
- Personal webpage
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Reda ElGhawi
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP2
- Hybrid modeling approaches to land-surface modeling; through the integration of deep learning techniques and process-based models in the framework of Earth system models.
- Personal webpage
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David Hafezi Rachti
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Student Researcher – WP2
- Understanding meteorological drivers of vegetation phenology.
- Personal webpage
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Nora Linscheid
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PostDoc
- Extreme event detection & impacts; machine learning & hybrid modeling for representing multi-scale processes / processes across time scales / frequencies.
- Personal webpage
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Dr. Basil Kraft
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Postdoctoral Researcher – WP3 and WP1
- WP3: Assessing capabilities of DL/XAI to predict and understand ecosystem responses to extreme events
- WP1: Using novel deep learning approaches for modeling of ecosystem fluxes
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Guohua Liu
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Hybrid modelling of vegetation phenology.
- Personal webpage
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Dr. Sujan Koirala
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Scientist: external Hybrid modeling
- Physical modeling of the land biogeochemical cycles, with special focus on water-carbon coupling.
- Personal webpage
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Christian Reimers
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Research Scientist – WP2 and WP3
- Interpretable deep learning, causal modeling
- Personal webpage
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Albrecht Schall
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP3
- Deep Learning based climate extremes and impact detection and anticipation.
- (Uncertainty-aware) generative models.
- Personal webpage
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Chunhui Zhan
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP4
- Effects of increasing CO2 on land-atmosphere exchange of carbon and water.
- Personal webpage
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Feng Tao
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher
- Understanding dynamics of the global soil carbon cycle and its underlying mechanisms using ecological modeling, data assimilation, and machine learning techniques.
- Personal webpage
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Samuel Upton
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher
- Estimation of ecosystem CO2 fluxes constrained by ecosystem and atmospheric observations.
- Personal webpage
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Dr. Alexander Winkler
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Postdoctoral Researcher – WP2 and WP4
- Linking mechanistic models and observational data: Integration of data-driven approaches in Earth system models, specifically hybrid-modeling of land-atmosphere interactions (WP2), and constraining multi-model estimates of key entities in the Earth system using observations (i.e. Emergent Constraints, WP4).
- Personal webpage
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Xin Yu
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP3
- Legacy effects of extreme events on ecosystem carbon-cycle.
- Personal webpage
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