
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

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

Lazaro Alonso Silva
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Research Scientist
- Model efficiencies, neural networks, LSTMs, transformers. Hybrid modelling. Visual analytics.
- Personal webpage

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.

Dr. Ana Bastos*
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Group leader – WP3
- Climate extreme impacts and memory effects.
- Personal webpage

Vitus Benson
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Partial associate (pre-doctoral) – WP3
- Spatio-temporal prediction of localized impacts to extreme weather.
- Personal webpage

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

Dr. Gregory Duveiller
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Research Scientist -WP1 and WP2
- Investigating land-climate interactions based on satellite remote sensing.
- Personal webpage

Reda ElGhawi
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP3
- 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

Johannes Gensheimer
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher
- Analysing the carbon land-atmosphere interaction based on data science, hybrid modelling, and machine learning with remote sensing data.
- Personal webpage

Basil Kraft
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP1 / WP2 (TBD)
- Hybrid modeling, using novel deep learning approaches for modeling of ecosystem fluxes (TBD).
- Personal webpage

Guohua Liu
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Hybrid modelling of vegetation phenology.
- Personal webpage

Christian Reimers
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- Research Scientist – WP2 and WP3
- Interpretable deep learning, causal modeling
- Personal webpage

Albrecht Schall
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP3
- Deep Learning based climate extremes and impact detection and anticipation.
- (Uncertainty-aware) generative models.
- Personal webpage

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

Samuel Upton
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher
- Estimation of ecosystem CO2 fluxes constrained by ecosystem and atmospheric observations.
- Personal webpage

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

Xin Yu
- Affiliation: MPI-BGC
- PhD Researcher – WP3
- Legacy effects of extreme events on ecosystem carbon-cycle.
- Personal webpage
* indicates partial affiliation to USMILE.