I am a PhD student in the working group Atmospheric Dynamics, supervised by Andreas H. Fink and Michael Riemer (JGU, Mainz). As a member of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Waves to Weather, I am working in project C3 (”Predictability of tropical and hybrid cyclones over the North Atlantic Ocean”) on the development of statistical-dynamical models for intraseasonal predictions of tropical cyclone activity. The aim of this work is to investigate a broad range of meteorologically relevant predictors, and to compare different model types and architectures with respect to their performance and physical interpretability.

Research interests

• Tropical cyclones

• Intraseasonal variability and forecasting

• Statistical-dynamical modelling

• Convectively coupled equatorial waves, African Easterly Waves

• Tropical-extratropical interactions

• Tropical transition of subtropical cyclones

Education & Work experience

since 2017      PhD student, KIT, Germany

2017                MSc Meteorology, KIT, Germany

2014                Internship at the Hurricane Research Division, Miami, USA

2014                BSc Meteorology, KIT, Germany

Teaching

2018/2019        Graduate      Exercises to Tropical Meteorology

2019/2020       Graduate       Exercises to Tropical Meteorology

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Maier-Gerber

ORCID: 0000-0003-3677-4414