Presently, the lidar group includes the following members:

• Scientists
  • Dr. Matthias Wiegner (head)
  • Dr. Volker Freudenthaler
  • Dr. Josef Gasteiger (DLR/MIM) [*]
  • Dipl. Met. Alexander Geiß (PhD student, ACTRIS, EU)
  • Ka Lok Chan (PhD student, ESR, VERTIGO, EU)

• Students
  • Hermann Forster (bachelor thesis)
  • Bettina Marx (master thesis)
  • Anja Preiß (bachelor thesis)

• Engineer
  • Meinhard Seefeldner [*]

• Mechanic
  • Anton Lex [*]

• Guests
  • Dr. Carlos Toledano (2006-2008), now back at Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
  • Silvia Riso (2009, Erasmus student), now back at University of Rome, Italy
  • Panos Kokkalis (2009, Erasmus student), National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Juan Antonio Bravo Aranda (2012), University of Granada, Spain

• Ex-Members
  • Werner Völker [retired July 2001]
  • Dieter Rabus [*, retired December 2001]
  • Iwona Stachlewska [until January 2003, now with University of Warsaw]
  • Werner Kumpf [until February 2003]
  • Sebastian Huttner [until June 2005]
  • Carsten Kykal [until September 2005]
  • Dr. Birgit Heese [until March 2007], now with TROPOS
  • Dipl. Met. Markus Eifried [until September 2009], now with DWD
  • Dipl. Met. Miriam Kosmale [until December 2010], now with DLR
  • Dr. Silke Groß [until June 2011], now with DLR
  • Hannah Imhof [Bachelor of Science Meteorology, September 2011]
  • Andrew Reigert [Dipl. Meteorologe, January 2012], now with DWD
  • Dipl. Phys. Theresa Hayek [until August 2010]
  • Tobias Sirch [until December 2012], now with DLR
  • Benjamin Schaaf [Master of Science Meteorology, November 2012], now with GKSS
  • Mikko Jann Peschke [Bachelor of Science Meteorology, September 2012]
  • Julian Briegel [until September 2012], now teacher
  • Dr. Franziska Schnell [until 2013], now with DLR
  • Bettina Marx [Master of Science Meteorology, September 2014]

• Students who work for us temporarily (so called „studentische Hilfskraft“)
  • Stefanie Meul (04/2008 - 09/2008)
  • Lukas Schmidt (04/2008 - 09/2008)
  • Yvonne Fliecker (11/2007 - 02/2008)
  • Eva Leuthold (11/2008 - 01/2009)
  • Bettina Richter (03/2008 - 03/2009)
  • Sebastian Müller (8/2009 - 01/2010)
  • Duy Sinh Cai (08/2009 - 02/2010)
  • Martin Köhler (11/2008 - 09/2010)
  • Andi Platis (11/2008 - 07/2010)
  • Melanie Bräu (01/2012 - 02/2013)

[*] among other duties