| IFU Graduate Program at IMK-IFU

IFU PhD Seminar

2025/02/20 | 11:00-12:00 | Petra Guppenberger

Sebastian Floßmann: "Grassland nutrient cycling and translocation into adjacent aquatic systems"

Next Level-Science using AI Assistants - Webinar 3

2025/02/18 | 09:00-12:00 | Dr. Markus Gyger & Prof. Dr. Daniel Mertens

This webinar series is a ATMO Talent Management activity and will introduce you to the possibilities offered by AI assistants.

Balancing Minds in Science (1) - Hierarchy and abuse of power

2025/02/17 | 11:00-12:30 | Prof. Dr. Jana Lasser, University of Graz, Austria

New KIT online series "Balancing Minds in Science", a space to explore well-being topics that are relevant to the academic and research environment

Next Level-Science using AI Assistants - Webinar 2

2025/02/06 | 09:30-12:30 | Dr. Markus Gyger & Prof. Dr. Daniel Mertens

This webinar series is a ATMO Talent Management activity and will introduce you to the possibilities offered by AI assistants.

Next Level-Science using AI Assistants - Webinar 1

2025/01/31 | 09:30-12:30 | Dr. Markus Gyger & Prof. Dr. Daniel Mertens

This webinar series is a ATMO Talent Management activity and will introduce you to the possibilities offered by AI assistants.

IFU PhD Seminar

2025/01/09 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Serge Alebadwa Mombenga: "Nutrient balances and Greenhouse gas fluxes in a lowland forest succession of the Congo Basin"

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/12/19 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Luca Glawion: "Spatio-temporal downscaling of global precipitation estimates using deep learning methods"

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/11/21 | 11:00-12:00 | Petra Guppenberger

Lioba Martin: "Modeling the impacts of extreme heat and drought on agricultural systems"

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/10/28 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Maitreyee Sevekari: "Blueprints for Utopia: Merging justice and practical feasibility for forest-based mitigation"

IFU Welcome Coffee

2024/10/24 | 10:00-11:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Our IFU Welcome Coffee is an informal get-together to welcome new colleagues at IMK-IFU, introduce newcomers from different working groups to each other and answer questions.

How to build a research career perspective

2024/10/16 - 2024/10/17 | Day 1: 09:00-17:00; Day 2: 09:00-13:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

1,5-day workshop on “How to build a research career perspective: research profile and third-party funding”

From research to impact

2024/09/19 | 09:00-15:00 | Dr. Niels Feldmann & Dr. Markus Bauer, KIT

KIT’s Innovation and Relations Management (IRM) unit will be offering a 1-day workshop

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/09/18 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Yasir Hageltom: "Predictability of crop yield on sub-seasonal timescales in the Blue Nile Region" | Haiting Xu: "Development of a fully objective drought monitoring model based on U.S. Drought Monitor for substituting partly subjective assessments"

KHYS Postdoc Days 2024

2024/09/16 - 2024/09/20 | | KHYS Postdoc Office

KHYS Postdoc Days 2024 taking place from September 16 until September 20

Summer School: Land Use & Ecosystem Change

2024/07/30 - 2024/08/07 | | Prof. Dr. Almut Arneth, Prof. Dr. Mark Rounsevell, and team

KIT Summer School on Land Use and Ecosystem Change in Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 30th July to 7th August 2024

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/07/10 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Jia Zhou: "The impacts of bilateral trade on the global food system and ecosystem: An integrated analysis using PLUM" | Ronja Hotz:"Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: Unveiling the role of social interactions through agent-based modeling of the land system"

IFU Welcome Coffee

2024/06/27 | 10:00-11:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Our IFU Welcome Coffee is an informal get-together to welcome new colleagues at IMK-IFU, introduce newcomers from different working groups to each other and answer questions.

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/06/13 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Jana Zeppan: "Investigating thermal tolerance, recovery and acclimation mechanisms in temperate tree species" | Helena Back: "Modelling the annual migration and movement of two large mammal herbivores in the Serengeti Greater Maasai Mara Ecosystem exploring different climate, land use change and conservation scenarios"

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/05/16 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Qi Sun: "The impact of urbanization and climate change on extreme rainfall in coastal megacities of China"

Virtual Career Day 2024

2024/04/25 | 08:50-18:00 | KHYS Postdoc Office

KIT's third Virtual Career Day 2024 "Transition Possible" in collaboration with seven other research institutions

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/04/24 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Julia Kepp: "Measuring and modelling effects of land use intensity and biodiversity on grassland nitrogen turnover using stable isotope approaches" | Chien Nguyen: "Greenhouse gas emission inventories from rice cultivation in Vietnam according to different IPCC Tier approaches"

Webinar 4 on Application Training

2024/04/16 | 10:00-12:00 | Dr. Susanne Dönitz, Karriere.Haus

Webinar series within the framework of KIT ATMO Talent Management activities

Bridging Spheres Pop-up Campus

2024/04/08 - 2024/04/12 | | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Webinar 3 on Application Training

2024/04/02 | 10:00-12:00 | Dr. Susanne Dönitz, Karriere.Haus

Webinar series within the framework of KIT ATMO Talent Management activities

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/03/14 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Logapragasan Subramaniam: "What is the role of exogenous Nitric Oxide (NO) for plants, microbes, and their interactions in soil?"

Webinar 2 on Application Training

2024/03/12 | 10:00-12:00 | Dr. Susanne Dönitz, Karriere.Haus

Webinar series within the framework of KIT ATMO Talent Management activities

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/02/29 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Fawad Khan: "An integrated approach to optimize nitrogen use efficiency"

Webinar 1 on Application Training

2024/02/27 | 10:00-12:00 | Dr. Susanne Dönitz, Karriere.Haus

Webinar series within the framework of KIT ATMO Talent Management activities

Basisseminar Wissenschaftskommunikation

2024/01/31 | 09:00-17:00 | Richard Fuchs, NaWik

Basics of Science Communication

2024/01/30 | 09:00-17:00 | Richard Fuchs, NaWik

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/01/25 | 13:00-14:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Jincheng Han: "Climate-Smart Management to Maintain Environmental and Economic Soil Functions of Pre-Alpine Grasslands"

IFU PhD Seminar

2024/01/18 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Rebecca Wiegels: "The Potential of AI in Seasonal Forecasting" | Spencer Roberts: "The upscaling potential of emerging food production technologies and their impacts on the global land system"

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/12/21 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Patrick Olschewski: "Frisbee, Flood, and Famine - Exploring the subtropical summer of the future"

Competency Profile Course

2023/11/09 - 2023/12/14 | | Dr. Iris Köhler

An initiative of the KIT ATMOchange Talent Management working group

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/10/26 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Franklin Alongi: "Exploring ecophysiological mechanisms of stress response and recovery in European forest species" | Yanick Ziegler: "Tree–water relations as drought-stress indicators in a changing world"

Mental Health First Aid Course

2023/10/18 - 2023/11/29 | | KIT ATMO Talent Management working group

Mental Health First Aid course for staff from the IMK departments, especially senior staff

Paper Writing Academy

2023/10/09 | | Dr. Gunther Tress, TRESS ACADEMIC

8-week digital mentoring program by Tress Academic

KHYS Postdoc Days 2023

2023/09/18 - 2023/09/22 | | KHYS Postdoc Office

This year, the KHYS Postdoc Days will take place from Monday, September 18 until Friday, September 22, 2023.

PhD Success Lab

2023/09/18 | | Dr. Bärbel Tress, TRESS ACADEMIC

12-week digital mentoring program by Tress Academic

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/09/14 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Anna-Lena Müller: "GHG footprints of grasslands in pre-alpine regions of Germany" | Jan Weber: "Enhancing predictions from Astana to Zambia. A global approach to seasonal forecast bias correction"

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/07/12 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Katharina Mayer: "Humans and Biodiversity – A Tragedy, in Five Acts: Development of a spatially explicit Human Pressure Index to map anthropogenic pressure on biodiversity"

First IFU Open Data Day

2023/06/26 | 09:00-17:00 | Dr. Heidi Seibold

Open Data Day organized by the IFU DataInitiative and the IFU Graduate Program

How to improve PhD supervision

2023/06/22 - 2023/06/23 | Day 1: 9:00-17:00, Day 2: 9:00-13:00 | Dr. Bärbel Tress, TRESS ACADEMIC

This course supports supervisors in reflecting on and improving supervision of their doctoral students.

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/06/15 | 14:00-15:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Simon Zitzmann: "Quantification of the energy balance, identification of heat sinks and investigation of their contribution to elevation-dependent warming of the climate on different spatial and temporal scales with a focus on the Berchtesgaden National Park" | Yu Li: "Numerical simulation of compound flooding for coastal metropolis under changing environments"

IFU Welcome Coffee

2023/04/13 | 10:00-11:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Our IFU Welcome Coffee is an informal get-together to welcome new colleagues at IMK-IFU, introduce newcomers from different working groups to each other and answer questions.

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/04/06 | 11:00-12:00 | Petra Guppenberger

Markus Shiweda: "Land-use change and climate change implications on biodiversity, keystone species and livelihoods in Southern Africa"

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/03/09 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Tobias Laimer: "Modelling the effects of European area-based environmental policy targets on land use and ecosystem services" | Martin Wittenbrink: "Statistical wildfire modeling: now and in future scenarios"

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/02/09 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Carla Bockermann: "Paludiculture as a nature-based solution for peatlands - field studies on greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change adaptation potentials" | Sebastian Flossmann: "Grassland nutrient cycling and translocation into adjacent aquatic systems"

IFU PhD Seminar

2023/01/19 | 14:00-15:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Nico Blettner: "Generating rainfall maps based on signal reduction within the cellular network" | Zikang Xing: "Towards improved seasonal predictions of regional drought by conditioning on large-scale precursors"

Mental Health First Aid Course

2023/01/17 - 2023/03/07 | 6 modules of 2 hours each over 8 weeks | KIT ATMO Talent Management working group

We (KIT ATMO Talent Management) are organizing a Mental Health First Aid course for staff from the IMK departments, especially early-career researchers.

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/12/15 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Selina Schwarz: "Why trees die – Exploring canopy mortality over large areas" | Maitreyee Sevekari: "Will Afforestation Save the World: A Feasibility Assessment of forest re-lated climate mitigation strategies"

IFU Welcome Coffee

2022/11/24 | 10:00-11:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Our IFU Welcome Coffee is an informal get-together to welcome new colleagues at IMK-IFU, introduce newcomers from different working groups to each other and answer questions.

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/11/17 | 11:00-12:00 | Petra Guppenberger

Lioba Martin: "Modeling the Impacts of Extreme Events on Agricultural Systems using Storylines"

KHYS Postdoc Days 2022

2022/11/14 | | KHYS Postdoc Office

The Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists is happy to announce the KHYS Postdoc Days 2022, which will take place in November.

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/10/20 | 13:30-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Brian Böker: "Circulation pattern-based downscaling for refined heavy precipitation prediction in the Bavarian Oberland region" | David Feldmann: "Development of an integral concept for municipal flash flood risk management in the Bavarian Oberland region based on locally refined regional climate projections"

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/09/22 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Qi Sun: "Based on WRF-Urban simulation research of the urbanization impact on the climate of Megacity Shenzhen in China" | Luca Glawion: "Can Deep Learning help us to improve the resolution of climate model outputs?"

ATMOchange PhD Days 2022

2022/09/19 - 2022/09/20 | | Helmholtz Association

Helmholtz ATMOchange PhD Days 2022

Summer School on Land Use and Ecosystem Change

2022/08/16 - 2022/08/23 | | Prof. Dr. Almut Arneth, Prof. Dr. Mark Rounsevell, and team

Summer School on Land Use and Ecosystem Change in Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 16-23 August 2022.

Short Course: Flux Measurement Fundamentals

2022/08/08 - 2022/08/12 | | Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Schmid & team

A technical short course with focus on the use of micrometeorological methods to obtain and analyze fluxes of momentum, heat and gases by eddy-covariance.

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/07/21 | 14:00-15:15 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Dragan Petrovic: "Droughts in Germany: Patterns, Trends and Reproduction in Regional Climate Models" | Xuejin Wang: "Impact of large-scale vegetation restoration on regional water cycle over the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China"

How to become an independent researcher

2022/07/07 - 2022/07/08 | Day 1: 9:00-17:00, Day 2: 9:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

This 2-day workshop is targeted towards advanced PhD students and postdocs planning an academic career and starting grant acquisition.

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/06/23 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Kevin Wolz: "Earth science went Star Wars – did our lasers catch the wind?" | Mirella Schreiber: "Improved slurry management to increase nutrient use efficiency and mountain key soil functions of alpine/pre-alpine grassland soils"

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/05/19 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Irina Yankelzon: "Measuring plant effects on denitrification using innovative techniques" | Ines Spangenberg: "Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions for different land uses in West Africa"

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/04/14 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Li Wan: "Accumulation of soil nutrients and heavy metals and application of anaerobic soil disinfestation technique in solar greenhouse vegetable production systems in East China"

IFU Welcome Coffee

2022/03/16 | 10:00-11:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Our IFU Welcome Coffee is an informal get-together to welcome new colleagues at IMK-IFU, introduce newcomers to each other and answer questions.

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/03/10 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Ines Spangenberg: "Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions for different land uses in West Africa" | Patrick Olschewski: "Estimation of future hydrometeorological extreme events in Eastern China with a special focus on compound events"

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/02/24 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Katharina Mayer: "Mapping human pressure on biodiversity – Development of a spatially explicit Human Pressure Index"

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/02/03 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Fawad Khan: "Integrative consideration of N-turnover processes to optimize nitrogen efficiency" | Logapragasan Subramaniam: "What is the role of exogenous Nitric Oxide (NO) for plants, microbes, and their interactions in soil?"

IFU PhD Seminar

2022/01/20 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Anh Duc Tran: "Modelling of the water cycle over the Mekong Delta"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/12/16 | 10:00-11:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Elisabeth Ramm: "The forgotten nutrient in permafrost research. The importance of cycling and emissions of nitrogen forms from permafrost landscapes" | Jincheng Han: "Climate-smart management to maintain environmental and economic soil functions of pre-Alpine grasslands"

IFU Welcome Coffee

2021/12/08 | 10:00-11:30 | Petra Guppenberger

Our IFU Welcome Coffee is an informal get-together to welcome new colleagues at IMK-IFU, introduce newcomers to each other and answer questions.

KHYS Postdoc Days 2021

2021/12/06 - 2021/12/17 | | KHYS Postdoc Office

The Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists is happy to announce the second KHYS Postdoc Days, which will take place during the first two weeks of December 2021.

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/11/11 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Johannes Speidel: "Exploring the planetary boundary layer - thermodynamic profiling with the ATMONSYS lidar"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/10/14 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Elizabeth Wangari: "Soil greenhouse gas emissions from a mixed land use catchment; a case study of Schwingbach catchment, Gießen, Germany"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/09/16 | 11:00-12:30 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Climate-smart management to maintain environmental and economic soil functions of pre-Alpine grasslands / Integrative consideration of N-turnover processes to optimize nitrogen efficiency

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/06/10 | 15:00-16:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Luise Wanner: "Development of an energy-balance correction for eddy-covariance measurements over heterogeneous ecosystems”

Managing Home office and schooling

2021/06/09 | 11:00-12:30 | Carola Schneider

Joint online seminar (in German) of Campus Alpin and Netzwerk Gesundheit with the support of Techniker Krankenkasse.

Managing Home office and schooling

2021/06/08 | 11:00-12:30 | Carola Schneider

Joint online seminar (in English) of Campus Alpin and Netzwerk Gesundheit with the support of Techniker Krankenkasse.

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/05/20 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Julius Polz: "Enhancing environmental time-series data processing with deep learning"

MHFA-Kurs (Mental Health First Aid)

2021/04/21 | 10:00-12:00 |

Das MHFA-Programm ist eine Bildungsinitiative, die Laien darin ausbildet, anderen zu helfen, die sich in einer psychischen Krise befinden oder psychische Probleme entwickeln.

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/04/13 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Nico Blettner: "Estimating spatial rainfall amounts using the stochastic Random Mixing approach and data from commercial microwave links" | Brian Böker: "Development of innovative circulation pattern based bias correction approaches for improved projections of hydrometeorological extremes"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/03/18 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Dragan Petrovic: "Impact of human water use on atmospheric extremes in regional climate simulations" | David Feldmann: "Development of an integral concept for municipal flash flood risk management in the Bavarian Oberland region based on locally refined regional climate projections"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/02/25 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Jens Krause: "The Role of Animals for Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Cycling"

How to publish in peer-reviewed journals

2021/02/22 - 2021/02/24 | Day 1+2: 9:00-17:00; Day 3: 09:00-16:00 | Dr. Gunther Tress, TRESS ACADEMIC

3-day course "How to publish in peer-reviewed journals"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/02/04 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Kevin Wolz: "Quality Assessment of ground-based Lidar measurements in the Boundary layer (QALiBo): evaluation and verification of scanning strategies, quality tests and uncertainty quantification" | Selina Schwarz: "Exploring the impact of drought on Central European forests, using remote sensing"

IFU PhD Seminar

2021/01/19 | 11:00-12:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Waqas Quasim: "Denitrification and Environmental N losses from greenhouse vegetable systems"

Gesund durch den Corona-Stress

2021/01/14 | 10:00-11:00 |

Online-Vortrag (presentation in German language): Prof. Dr. Frank-Gerald B. Pajonk: "Gesund durch den Corona-Stress"

IFU PhD Seminar

2020/12/17 | 14:00-15:00 | Dr. B. Elija Bleher

Maximilian Graf: "Did it rain? - Rainfall information from opportunistic measurement systems"