1. (Multivariate) Extremes and Impacts on the Land Surface
Jakob Zscheischler

2. Personal Background Diploma in Mathematics (Humbold University Berlin)
Joint PhD between the departments Empirical Inference (MPI for Intelligent Systems) and Biogeochemical Integration (MPI for Biogeochemistry), finished 2014
Now Postdoc at Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich

3. Research Areas/Interests
Relationiship between extremes in climate and extremes in the carbon cycle
Compound events: large impacts (affecting vegetation, crops, humans,…) that are driven by multiple dependent drivers
What are the drivers of interannual variability in carbon and energy fluxes?

4. Links to „Computer Science meets Ecology“
How to link extreme responses (e.g. in vegetation) to features in a high-dimensional driver data space (i.e., different spatial and temporal scales of climate variables)
How to detect lagged impacts of climate extremes in a very „noisy“ system