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Professional career

• 11/2003 - 04/2004
  Post-doc, "Allocation jeune post-doc" grant of the École Polytechnique, working at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / IPSL, Palaiseau, France, 2003 - 2004
• 04/2004 - 05/2006
  "Emmy Noether" phase I grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, working atMax Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg; Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada; and Hadley Centre / Met Office, Exeter, UK
• 06/2006 - 08/2006
  Cloud research scientist, Hadley Centre / Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
• 09/2006 - 04/2011
  "Emmy Noether" phase II grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Junior Research Group at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• since 04/2011
  Full Professor for Theoretical Meteorology, University of Leipzig
• 03/2015 - 07/2015
  Visiting scientist (research semester) NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences/Columbia University, New York, USA
• 09/2019 - 02/2020
  Visiting scientist (research semester) NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences/Columbia University, New York, USA
• 02/2025 - 06/2025
  Visiting scientist (research semester) Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / Sorbonne Sciences Université, Paris, France

Education

• 10/1994 - 09/1996
  Studies of Physics, University of Essen
• 10/1996 - 07/2000
  Studies of Meteorology, University of Cologne
• 09/1998 - 07/2000
  Diploma thesis at Scientific Computing and Algorithms Institute of the GMD-National Research Center for Information Technology, St. Augustin (now Fraunhofer-Institute)
• 07/2000 - 11/2003
  Ph.D.Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / IPSL, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, November 2003Ph.D. thesis: L’effet indirect des aérosols : paramétrisation dans des modèles de grande échelle et évaluation avec des données satellitales (The ae
• 11/2011
  Habilitation, University of Hamburg.Habilitation thesis: The role of clouds in climate forcings and feedbacks

• Cloud processes and cloud-climate feedbacks.
• Connections between biodiversity and climate change
• Cloud process parameterizations in large-scale models.
• Satellite observations.
• Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions (aerosol indirect effects)
• Global climate change.

• ECO-N: Economics of Connected Natural Commons - Atmosphere and Biodiversity

  Quaas, Martin Friedrich

  Duration: 08/2024 – 08/2029

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Nachhaltige Immobilien- und Stadtentwicklung; VWL/Makroökonomik; VWL/Ökonometrie; Energiemanagement und Nachhaltigkeit; Bioenergiesysteme; BWL, insb. Sustainable Banking; Spezielle Botanik und funktionelle Biodiversität; Theoretische Meteorologie; Modellierung atmosphärischer Prozesse (Gemeinsame Berufung mit IfT); Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie; Biodiversitätsökonomik; Klima-Attribution (JP)
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• WarmWorld - Subproject: Calibrating liquid water cloud microphysics in ICON

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 03/2023 – 02/2027

  Funded by: BMFTR Bundesministerium für ­Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• Learning about cloud-climate effects from machine-learning calibration of cloud parameters in climate models (LACCMACC)

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 09/2024 – ongoing

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• CleanCloud

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 12/2023 – ongoing

  Funded by: EU Europäische Union

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• Cloud response to Volcanic eruptions (VolCloud)

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 09/2022 – 09/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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more projects

• Gulev, S.; Thorne, P. W.; Ahn, J. et al.

  Changing State of the Climate System

  Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp. 287–422.

  DOI: 10.1017/9781009157896.004
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• Mahecha, M.; Bastos, A.; Bohn, F. J. et al.

  Biodiversity and climate extremes: known interactions and research gaps

  Earth's Future. 2024. 12 (6).

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003963
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• Luo, H.; Quaas, J.; Han, Y.

  Decreased cloud cover partially offsets the cooling effects of surface albedo from deforestation

  Nature Communications. 2024. p. 7345.

  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51783-y
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• Kretzschmar, J.; Pöhlker, M.; Stratmann, F.; Wex, H.; Wirth, C.; Quaas, J.

  From trees to rain: enhancement of cloud glaciation and precipitation by pollen

  Environ. Res. Lett.. 2024. p. 104052.

  DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad747a
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• Quaas, J.; Andrews, T.; Bellouin, N. et al.

  Adjustments to climate perturbations - mechanisms, implications, observational constraints

  AGU Advances. 2024.

  DOI: 10.1029/2023AV001144
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Professor for Theoretical Meteorology

• Differential equations

  Summer terms

  Meteorology Bachelor 2nd semester

• Dynamics 1

  Summer terms

  Meteorology Bachelor 2nd semester

• Global climate dynamics

  Summer terms

  Meteorology Master 2nd semester

• Dynamics 2

  Winter terms

  Meteorology Bachelor 3rd semester

• Thermodynamics

  Winter terms

  Meteorology Bachelor 3rd semester

• Data Assimilation

  Summer terms

  Meteorology Master 2nd semester

• Climate crisis and solution options

  Key qualifications module

  Bachelor (interdisciplinary)