Dr. Fabian Hoffmann – Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Meteorology (summa cum laude), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover. Committee: Prof. Dr. S. Raasch, Prof. Dr. Y. Noh, Dr. G. Feingold.

M.Sc. in Meteorology (magna cum laude), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

B.Sc. in Meteorology (magna cum laude), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Research Affiliate, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Emmy Noether research group leader, Meteorological Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

CIRES Visiting fellow (group of Dr. G. Feingold), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA, and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Visiting scientist (group of Prof. Dr. Y. Noh), Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Research associate (group of Prof. Dr. S. Raasch), Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

Student research assistant (group of Prof. Dr. S. Raasch), Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

Internship at the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology (group of Dr. J.-S. von Storch), Hamburg, Germany.

See also https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/432726401.

Research grant with Dr. Guy Dagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Quantifying the Multiscale Effects of Subtropical Marine Cloud Brightening on the Tropical Cloud Continuum (PI, DFG).

2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Atmospheres.

Emmy-Noether Fellowship: A six-year program to start an own junior research group funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship: A two-year fellowship by the European Commission (declined).

Outstanding Postdoc Award of the University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Young Scientist Award (Förderpreis) of the German Meteorological Society (Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft).

CIRES Visiting Fellowship: A two-year fellowship at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, sponsored by the University of Colorado Boulder and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, both in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

US Department of Energy (DOE) travel and participation grant for the 1st ARM Summer Training in Norman, OK, USA.

Best oral presentation at the 2nd International Education Forum on Environment & Energy Science (ACEEES, Tokyo Institute of Technology), 13 – 17 December 2013, Huntington Beach, CA, USA.

Boundary Layer Meteorology (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): winter term 2020/2021, winter term 2021/2022, winter term 2022/2023, winter term 2023/2024.

Cloud Physics (Leibniz Universität Hannover): winter term 2015/16, summer term 2016, summer term 2017.

User workshops on the LES model PALM (jointly held with Prof. Dr. S. Raasch and other members of the PALM group of the Leibniz Universität Hannover):

• Enercon, Bremen, Germany (4 – 8 August 2014),
• INPE/CPTEC, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil (2 – 6 February 2015),
• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (21 – 25 September 2015),
• Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany (10 – 14 October 2016).

Meteorology 1 and 2 (Leibniz Universität Hannover): summer term 2014, winter term 2014/15.

Cloud Physics (Leibniz Universität Hannover): winter term 2014/15.

Meteorology 1 and 2 (Leibniz Universität Hannover): winter term 2010/11, summer term 2011, winter term 2011/12, summer term 2012.

Since 2024: Ben Ascher, Entrainment in Mixed-Phase Clouds (Ph.D. Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Since 2023: Zach Rowland, Lagrangian Cloud Modeling of Marine Cloud Brightening (Ph.D. Thesis, TU Delft, Netherlands).

Since 2023: Levin Rug, Marine Cloud Brightening (Ph.D. Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Since 2023: Hanchen Li, Studying the Interactions of Droplets in a Turbulent Fluid (Master’s thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2023 – 2024: Sarah Ollmann, Film-Forming Compounds and Marine Cloud Brightening (Master’s thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2023: Julian Humer-Hager, A Cloud Microphysics Model for Teaching (3 Months Research Assistant, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2022: Antoine Serres, A Heuristic Model for the Aerosol-Budget of Stratocumulus-Topped Boundary Layers (3.5 Months Internship, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France)

2022 – 2023: Amber te Winkel, Microphysical Impacts on the Turbulence Kinetic Energy Budget in a Cloud Chamber (Master’s thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2022 – 2023: Erika Urbach, Radiation Effects on Mixing in Clouds (Master’s Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2021 – 2022: Donggun Oh, Activation of Aerosols in Shallow Cumulus Clouds Simulated by a Lagrangian Cloud Model (Co-supervision of Ph.D. Thesis, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea).

Since 2021: Jung-Sub Lim, Large-Scale Effects of Turbulent Mixing in Cumulus Clouds (Ph.D. Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Since 2021: Johannes Kainz, Small-Scale Mixing in Clouds (Ph.D. Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2020: Sarah Ollmann, Collisional Breakup in Lagrangian Cloud Models (Bachelor’s Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

2017: Erika Urbach, Turbulence effects on the initiation of warm rain: A box-model study with particle-based microphysics (Bachelor’s Thesis, Leibniz Universität Hannover).

2016: Johannes Schwenkel, Entwicklung, Implementierung und Validierung eines Algorithmus für das Spalten und Zusammenfassen von Partikeln in einem Langrangeschen-Wolkenphysik-Modell (Master’s Thesis, Leibniz Universität Hannover).

2015: Jan-Niklas Welß, Der Einfluss von Interpolations-Methodiken auf das Tropfenwachstum durch Diffusion bei Lagrangeschen Wolkentropfen-modellen (Bachelor’s Thesis, Leibniz Universität Hannover).

Reviewer for journals (56 reviews for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Geoscientific Model Development, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, SN Applied Sciences, Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Atmosphere, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Fluids, Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Nature Communications Earth & Environment) and funding agencies [8 reviews for National Science Centre (Poland), National Science Foundation (USA), German Research Foundation (Germany), National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (Hungary), Israel Science Foundation (Israel)].

Convener and Chair of the session “Methodological Advances for the Accurate Representation of Physical Processes on Multiple Scales” at the EMS Annual Meeting 2022 in Bonn, Germany.

Judge for student presentations at the AMS 16th Conference on Cloud Physics 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Guest Editor for a special issue on “Towards a Risk-Risk-Assessment of Solar Radiation Modification: Effectiveness, Feasibility, Side effects, Governance” in the journal “Oxford Open Climate Change”.

Member of Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft (since 2013), American Meteorological Society (since 2015).

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