Profile

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

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

• Constrained aerosol forcing for improved climate projections (FORCES)

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 10/2019 - 02/2024

  Funded by: EU Europäische Union

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• Constraining uncertainty of multi decadal climate projections (CONSTRAIN)

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 06/2019 - 05/2023

  Funded by: EU Europäische Union

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• FOR 2820 Teilprojekt: Cloud response to Volcanic eruptions (VolCloud)

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 03/2019 - 11/2022

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• Climate model PArameterizations informed by RAdar (PARA)

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 01/2019 - 06/2022

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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• Atmospheric model data: data quality, curation criteria, and doi-branding

  Quaas, Johannes

  Duration: 06/2019 - 05/2022

  Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
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more projects

• Quaas, J.; Gryspeerdt, E.; Vautard, R.; Boucher, O.

  Climate impact of aircraft-induced cirrus assessed from satellite observations before and during COVID-19

  Environmental Research Letters. 2021. p. 064051

  DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf686
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• Bellouin, N.; Quaas, J.; Gryspeerdt, E. et al.

  Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

  2020.

  DOI: 10.1029/2019rg000660
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• 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 loss and climate extremes - study the feedbacks

  Nature. 2022. pp. 30-32
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• Linke, O.; Quaas, J.

  The impact of increasing CO2 levels on the Arctic atmospheric energy budget in CMIP6 climate model simulations

  Tellus. 2022. pp. 106-118

  DOI: 10.16993/tellusa.29
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more publications

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)