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MINT Challenge Plus Stifterverband

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24 March 2025|SICSS News

ICSS program receives award for innovative concept

Energy transition, climate change, food security - in order to solve current and future problems, we need people who can think and work in an interdisciplinary way. The students on our Integrated Climate System Sciences (ICSS) program learn this particularly well. This has been announced by the Stifterverband, which has now...

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25 February 2025|SICSS News

Successful Master’s Thesis Presentation by Sumitra Sharma

We are delighted to congratulate Sumitra Sharma on the successful presentation of her Master’s thesis, titled:

"Validation of Wind Modelled Data for the Resource Assessment of Wind Farms"

Supervised by Prof. Dr. Nedjeljka Žagar and Dr. Frank Lunkeit (Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg), Sumitra’s research...

Thesis Defense of Chavely Albert

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18 February 2025|SICSS News

Chavely Albert Fernández successfully defended her doctoral thesis

We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Chavely Albert Fernández.

Her dissertation “Sensitivity of ocean heat uptake to changing atmospheric forcing in the context of climate variability” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer and Dr. Armin Köhl (both, University of Hamburg).

Chavely used...

Handover of a certificate to a student

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7 February 2025|SICSS News

CEN Graduation Ceremony 2025

On February 7, 2025, the Centre for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) proudly hosted this year’s Graduation Ceremony at the Geomatikum. The event honored the graduates of our master’s and doctoral programs, bringing together students, faculty, family, and friends for an evening of recognition, reflection, and...

Thesis Defense of Simon Muwafu

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4 February 2025|SICSS News

Simon Muwafu successfully defended his doctoral thesis

We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Simon Muwafu.

His dissertation “Informal Governance for Urban Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Institutional Analysis of Community-Led Approaches to Nature-Based Stormwater Solutions” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran (UHH, Institute...

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28 January 2025|SICSS News

Marc Lennartz successfully presented his MSc thesis

Marc Lennartz’s thesis, “Exploring Hourly Rainfall Extremes in a Changing Climate: A
Comparative Analysis of sMEV and GEV Distributions Using COSMO-CLM Simulations over
Germany” was supervised by Dr. Benjamin Poschlod (PostDoc for Sustainability and Climate
Risks, Universität Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner (Professor...

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