SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED
CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES

For three days, 37 SICSS doctoral candidates traded their seminar rooms for fresh sea air at the SICSS Retreat in Brodten near Travemünde. The program included campfires, roasted bread on sticks, and beach hikes – as well as presentations of the doctoral candidates’ research projects. A central part of the retreat was the...

At the SICSS Doctoral Retreat (see full report) held from June 2 to 4, the 37 attending doctoral candidates elected their new doctoral representatives. They will serve in office from June 2025 to May 2026.

The doctoral representatives advocate on behalf of all SICSS doctoral candidates and represent their interests within...

Gicela Vergara has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled “The Tropical Rainbelt under a 4K Warmer Sea Surface Temperature in a Global Storm-Resolving Model.” During her thesis, she joined the Climate Surface Interaction group in the Department of Climate Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. Her...