Contents

Science related

• About me
• List of references
• Research interests
• Publications
• The DIME project
• The CATS discussion forum
• Curriculum vitae

Not science related

• My OK-dinghy page

About me

I recently moved to the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden

From fall 2003 to spring 2007 I was with the Centre For The Analysis Of Time Series. I was mainly occupied with the DIME project, the central objectives of which were to determine and enhance the economic value of wheather forecasts.

In Summer 2003 I was for four months with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Univeristy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland.

I obtained my PhD from University of Göttingen in April 2003. My main research then was on nonlinear filtering and noise reduction, more precisely, developing fast and efficient approximatively optimal filters. Furthermore, I started to work on related problems like parameter estimation and identification of both deterministic and stochastic nonlinear systems. The analysis of nonlinear communication systems was a topic I worked on as well. My PhD was supported by the Graduiertenkolleg "Strömungsinstabilitäten und Turbulenz", and was supervised by Ulrich Parlitz.

Apart from the natural sciences, my list of interests are currently topped by calligraphy, history, model airplanes, photography, and dinghy sailing

Research Interests

My present research interest is at the interface of practical application, theoretical development and industrial exploitation of the analysis of dynamic systems. Currently I am particularly focussed on environmental risk and the socioeconomic value of weather forecast and climate model products. Furthermore, I am working on real time time series analysis (e.g. data assimilation, parameter estimation, and nonlinear filtering), as well as foundational issues in the theory of predictability and the communication of uncertainty to end users.

• Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
• Parameter Estimation
• Modeling of Nonlinear Systems
• Applied Nonlinear Filtering
• Statistical Learning
• Weather Forecasting
• Calibration, Skill Scores and Reliability
• Economical Applications of Forecasts