Congratulations to Vivien Voss on successfully defending her doctoral thesis at SICSS.

16 January 2026

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Thesis: Towards the standardisation of obstacle-resolving model results
Supervisors: Prof. Bernd Leitl and Prof. K. Heinke Schlünzen
Notable mentions: David Grawe (Working Group leader and key technical support), Birgit Gaye (Panel Chair)

In her work, Vivien tackled a central methodological challenge in urban climate research: the standardisation of model results from obstacle-resolving models—numerical or physical models that explicitly represent buildings and trees to investigate urban climate processes. Building on the widely established netCDF-CF standard, she advanced the post-processing of the MITRAS numerical model and its outputs, and additionally developed a new standardisation approach for wind tunnel model results, helping improve comparability across modelling and experimental workflows.

Vivien is now continuing her professional path at Geo-net in Hannover, translating strong scientific expertise into applied environmental consulting.

Warm congratulations again, Vivien, and best wishes for what comes next.