Students

Active Students

  1. PhD students

    • Atul Rai; PhD student, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong. Co-supervised by Tim Cohen. Thesis title: Australia’s inland hydrology: quantifying discharge characteristics of the Lake Eyre basin and Australia’s channel country

  2. MSc students

    • Miku Nakamura; MSc student, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Iris Thurnherr. Thesis title: Meteorological factors involved in heavy precipitation in and filling of Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre.

    • Guorong Ling; MSc student in the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Hilla Afargan-Gerstman. Thesis title: Forecasting cyclones related to heavy precipitation events in the Sahara.

 

Past Students

  1. MSc students

    • Joëlle Rieder; MSc student, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Franziska Aemisegger. Thesis title: Analysis of meteorological systems and moisture sources leading to lake-filling episodes in the northwestern Sahara (2023).

  2. BSc students / research projects

    • Areti‐Panagiota Bantouna; Erasmus exchange student hosted at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Michael Sprenger. Thesis title: Wave simulations in shallow desert lakes (2024).

    • Anja Brun; BSc student, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Iris Thurnherr. Thesis title: Dynamic Drivers and Moisture Source Patterns of a Heavy precipitation Event in the Taklamakan Desert (2024).

    • Jeremy Sennhauser; BSc student, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Elad Dente. Thesis title: Locating the water source of Lake Eyre, the largest ephemeral lake in the world (2023).

    • Angelika Koch; BSc student, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Hanin Binder. Thesis title: Heavy Precipitation Events in the Lake Eyre Basin: Rainfall Properties and Synoptic Climatology (2023).

    • Dan Ollivier Mrejen; MSc student, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Co-supervised by Hanin Binder. Thesis title: Extreme rainfall events in the Atacama Desert (2022).