Research Scientist at NILU. Main focus on long range transport of various pollutants
 

Professional Experience

May 2001 - August 2004

Technical University of Munich, Department for Ecology. In December 2003 I have completed my PhD on "The Climatological View of Long-Range Transport in the Atmosphere". For this work I used FLEXTRA and FLEXPART, a trajectory and a Lagrangian particle dispersion model to simulate global transport processes and mechanisms (both resulting in a 15-year climatology). I presented my work at various conferences and seminars (for details see publication list).
 

September - November 2003

Visiting scientist at the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratoy, Boulder, CO, USA

Education

April 2001

Master Thesis "Air Quality and Source-Receptor Relationship of Pollutants in the Nature Reserve Seewinkel/Austria" at the Institute for Meteorology and Physics Agricultural University of Vienna, Austria

1993 -2001

Study of Landscape-planning with main focus on Environmental Sciences at the Agricultural University of Vienna (BOKU) - Grade 1.3
        ERASMUS exchange program:
        Environmental Sciences, Lancaster University, England (3 terms, 47 ECTS)
        Additional physics courses at the University of Vienna (45 ECTS)
 

College of Engineering, Dept. of Electronic Data Processing.

1987 - 1992

 

Special Skills

LINUX	Fortran, C, Pascal, HTML, GRIB decoding SQL (database design and programming), MARS database query language (ECMWF) Matlab, Magics, Metview, Gnuplot, LATEX System administration and script programming
Windows	MS Office, Sigmaplot, ARC view - ARC info (Geo Information Systems)
Languages	German: native speaker English: fluent (written and spoken)

Personal Interests

sailing on a global scale, photography - digital image processing, independent movies
 

Attended Seminars

4 - 13 June 2001 Meteorological Training Course Use and Interpretation of ECMWF Products, ECMWF Reading, England
 

Projects

  Technical University of Munich

CARLOTTA Climatology of Ascending Airstreams and their Relation to the Long-Range Transport of Trace Substances in the Atmosphere, a project within the German Atmospheric Research Program 2000 (AFO 2000)

  University for Agricultural Sciences, Vienna

RAMULARIA: Barley Spot Disease. Investigation of the meteorological causes of the disease especially the development of the fungus Ramularia collo cygni.

VFAT: Estimation of available days for agricultural work in Austria.