KCDS Fellows | Doctoral Researchers

KCDS Fellows
Portrait	Name	Doctoral Project and KCDS Supervisors	Role at KCDS
	Arweiler	"AI-Augmented Discovery of Turbulence-Granular Material Interactions", C. Ates (ITS) and S. Lerch (STAT)	KCDS Fellow
	Kluge	"Advanced Parallelization Techniques for data-driven Uncertainty Quantification", S. Krumscheid (SCC) and L. Seelinger (SCC)	KCDS Fellow
	Kieckhefen, Deifilia	"FAST-DREAM - Faster AtmoSpheric Transport modeling using Dimensionality REduction and Acceleration of with Machine learning", C. Debus/A. Streit (SCC) and G. Hoshyaripour (IMKTRO)	KCDS Fellow
	Wolf, Dominik Werner	"Optometrological characterization of the vehicle glazing key performance indicators influencing the performance of AI-based algorithms for autonomous driving", M. Ulrich (IPF), S. Krumscheid (SCC)	KCDS Fellow
	Acuna Espinoza, Eduardo Jose	"Hybrid Models in Hydrology: Combining Data-Driven Techniques with Hydrological Knowledge", U. Ehret (IWG) and N. Bäuerle (STOCH)	KCDS Fellow
	Mockert, Fabian	"Probabilistic weather regime prediction: Combining physical models and generative machine learning" J. Quinting (IMKTRO) and S. Lerch (STAT)	KCDS Fellow
Felipe Donoso	Donoso Aguirre, Felipe	"Mathematical modeling and simulation of terahertz waves, photons and sub-ps transients towards terahertz tomography at accelerators and for medical applications", M. Frank (SCC) and S. Funkner/E. Bründermann/A.-S. Müller (IBPT)	KCDS Fellow
Friederike Becker	Becker, Friederike	"Real-time probabilistic forecasting", M. Schienle (STAT) and F. Krüger (STAT)	KCDS Fellow
	Evangelopoulos, Georgios	"Optimization and acceleration of aerosol dynamics and chemistry sub-processes in weather and climate models", C. Hoose (IMKTRO) and A. Streit (SCC)	KCDS Fellow
	Tofighian, Hesam	"Development and validation of a hybrid grid/particle method for turbulent flows supported by high-performance calculations with OpenFOAM", M. Frank (SCC) and N. Kornev (Uni Rostock)	KCDS Fellow
	Bijiga, Lelisa Kabena	"Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Matheuristics", J. Warwicker/S. Rebennack (IOR) and M. Baumann (IFL)	KCDS Fellow
	Leimenstoll, Lisa	"Estimating causal relationships in extremes for time-dependent data", M. Schienle (STAT) and S. Lerch (STAT)	KCDS Fellow, Speaker of Doctoral Researcher Representatives (DRR) 2024/25
	Frank, Lukas	"Continuous-Time Overlapping-Generations Models: Theory, Numerics, and Applications" J. Brumm (ECON) and T. Jahnke (IANM)	KCDS Fellow, member of Doctoral Researcher Representatives (DRR) 2024/25
	Glyzhev, Maxim	"Geometric Characterisation and Topological Analysis of Fracture and Fault Surface Roughness in the context of applied Geology and Hydrology", S. Winter (STOCH)/P. Blum (AGW)	KCDS Fellow
	Simm, Miriam	"Post-simulation diagnostics of microphysical process rates from a climate and weather model with AI", J. Meyer/A. Streit (SCC) and C. Hoose (IMKTRO)	KCDS Fellow
Li	Li, Siyu	"Advancing Subseasonal Predictions at Reduced Computational Effort - Identifying source regions and pathways of tropical forecast errors towards the extratropics", J. Quinting (IMKTRO) and S. Lerch (STAT)	KCDS Fellow
	Salatovic, Stjepan	"Multilevel Methods for Quality Assessment of Injection Molding under Uncertainty", S. Krumscheid (SCC) and F. Wittemann (FAST)	KCDS Fellow
Tobias Biegert	Biegert, Tobias	"Spatial Ensemble Post-Processing for Probabilistic Weather Forecasting Using Generative Machine Learning", S. Lerch (STAT) and P. Knippertz (IMKTRO)	KCDS Fellow
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KCDS Alumni

Former KCDS Fellows
Name	Role at KCDS
Baumgarten, Niklas	KCDS Alumni
Horat, Nina	KCDS Alumni
Popovic, Nicholas	KCDS Alumni
Reiffer, Anna	KCDS Alumni
Schiemer, Robin	KCDS Alumni