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Charlotte Laufkötter
Curriculum Vitae
Work experience
Feb 2015 onward
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences, Princeton University, USA
July 2010 - Jan 2015
Research Assistant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as part of the Greencycles II
training network
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement
(LSCE), Paris, France, Analysis of primary and export production trends in
CMIP5 models
Jul 2011 - Dec 2013
Teaching Assistant, Courses: Physikpraktikum, Aquatic physics tutorials,
Statistic Workshop; Supervision of students
June 2008
Student Research Assistant, AWI Bremerhaven, Forschungsgruppe Marine
Biogeochemie
Development of Matlab functions to compare different oceanographic simulations
Nov 2006 – March 2008
Student Research Assistant, Institut für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen
Extension of a fluent simulation for filament shaped objects (Java)
März 2006 – April 2006
Internship, AWI Bremerhaven, Forschungsgruppe Dynamik des Paläoklimas
Implementation of box models of the carbon cycle
Education
Nov 2014
Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis Title: Processes governing the response of marine primary and export production
to climate change, Advisors: Nicolas Gruber, Laurent Bopp, Christoph Völker and
Meike Vogt
Oct 2006 – Jun 2008
Oct 2000–Dec 2009
Study of Marine Biology, minor subject, Bremen University
Study of Computer Science, Diploma, Rheinisch–Westfälische Technische
Hochschule Aachen, Germany
Focus on dependable distributed systems, data mining
1991–2000
Highschool, Gymnasium am Geroweiher, Mönchengladbach, Germany
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Further education and training
June 2012
August 2011
May 2011
Primary production in land and ocean plants, Greencycles training workshop
SOLAS summer school
Greencycles summer school
Languages
German
English
French
native language
fluent written and spoken
basic knowledge
Computer Literacy
operative systems
Linux, Mac OS
Daily use
programming languages
Fortran, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, NCL
Presentations
March 2015
Drivers of future changes in export efficiency in marine ecosystem models,
Climate Change Symposium, Santos, Brazil, (poster)
February 2014
Future changes in plankton community structure and effects on export
production, Ocean Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, (poster)
June 2013
Effects of future climate change on Plankton Functional Types and Export
Projections of current ocean ecosystem models, AWI Bremerhafen, Germany
April 2013
Trends in marine plankton composition and export production in a CCSM-BEC
hindcast (1960-2006), EGU conference, Vienna, Austria, (poster)
March 2013
Effects of future plankton composition on ocean primary and export production
- A multi-model analysis, Greencycles conference, Paris, France
July 2012
Impact of PFTs on export production in a CCSM-BEC hindcast, ASLO
conference, Kyoto, Japan
March 2012
PFT distribution and export efficiency in a CCSM-BEC hindcast, Talk at LSCE,
Paris, France
June 2011
Trends and Variability of Plankton Functional Types in CCSM-BEC , AMEMR
conference, Plymouth, UK, (poster)
Regular presentations of my work to the Greencycles II network, (Meetings in
Evora, Portugal; Paris, France; Peyresq, France; Abisco, Sweden), (talks and
poster presentations)
Regular presentations within the Environmental Physics group at ETH Zurich
as part of a weekly seminar series
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