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Sustainability and Climate Risks
Research UnitSustainability and Climate Risks

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Dr. Leonard Borchert

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Research Staff

Address

Universität Hamburg
Climate Extremes
Grindelberg 5
20144 Hamburg

Office

Room: 109

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838 7544

Office hours:

  • Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

I employ different types of models to understand climate extremes and their predictability, as well as how these extremes interact with society. I am also interested in the North Atlantic and how its variability influences the climate as a whole.

More details about my work here: www.leoborchert.de

Outreach

  • Presentation "In Erwartung einer heißen Nacht – Wie Haushalte auf Vorhersagen über die Anzahl von Tropennächten in ihren Regionen für den Sommer 2024 reagierten", together with Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino, 14. ExtremWetterKongress, HafenCity Universität Hamburg, 26.09.2024
  • Article "Große Hitze ist nicht allein die Folge des Klimawandels", Hamburger Abendblatt, 01.08.2022

Research interests

  • Modelling natural and socio-economic systems
  • Understanding forced and unforced climate variability and prediction
  • Investigating interactions between natural and socio-economic systems, and risk assessment
  • Analysis of ocean-atmosphere interactions and teleconnections

Scientific career

since 05/2022

  • Research Associate in Climate Statistics and Climate Extremes and Prediction, Universität Hamburg

2021-2022

  • Research Associate in Climate Prediction and Machine Learning, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

2019-2021

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Prediction, LOCEAN, Sorbonne Universités, Paris

2018-2019

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Prediction, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

2018

  • Dr. rer. nat., Universität Hamburg, International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling, Hamburg

2015

  • M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences, Universität Hamburg

2012

  • B.Sc. Geosciences, University of Bremen

Teaching

Lectures

  • Climate Modelling (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences, Ocean and Climate Physics), together with Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr, summer semesters
  • Predictions and Predictability of Climate (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences), winter semesters
  • Interactions between natural and social systems (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences), winter semesters
  • Reflecting on the Sustainable Development Goals (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences), winter semester 2023/24
  • Lecture Series on Extremes in the Earth System (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences), winter semester 2023/24

Exercise

  • Climate Modelling (1 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences, Ocean and Climate Physics), together with Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr, summer semesters
  • Predictions and Predictability of Climate (1 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences), winter semesters

Seminar

  • Master your Thesis (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences, Ocean and Climate Physics, Physics), together with Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr and Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann, summer semesters