Dr. Melanie Thurner (neé Kern)

Postdoc in the Agri-For-Live project

since 2024 Scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Campus Alpin, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU)
2020 – 2024 Scientist at the Institute of Soil Science (IfB) at the University of Hamburg
2019 Visiting Scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg (AT)
2018 Visiting Scientist at the research group for Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO) at the University of Antwerp (BE)
2016 - 2020 PhD Student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Thesis title: Nitrogen controls on plant carbon-use efficiency.
2015 - 2020 Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), and member of the International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC)
2013 - 2015 M.Sc. in Physics of Earth and Atmosphere (major: meteorology) at University of Bonn
2010 - 2013 B.Sc. in Meteorology at University of Bonn

Thurner, M. A., Caldararu, S., Engel, J., Rammig, A., and Zaehle, S.: Modelled forest ecosystem carbon–nitrogen dynamics with integrated mycorrhizal processes under elevated CO2, Biogeosciences, 21, 1391–1410, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1391-2024, 2024.
Caldararu, S., Thum, T., Yu, L., Kern, M., Nair, R., & Zaehle, S.: Long-term ecosystem nitrogen limitation from foliar δ15N data and a land surface model. Global Change Biology, 28, 493–508. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15933, 2022.
Thum, T., Caldararu, S., Engel, J., Kern, M., Pallandt, M., Schnur, R., Yu, L., and Zaehle, S.: A new model of the coupled carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles in the terrestrial biosphere (QUINCY v1.0; revision 1996), Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 4781–4802, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4781-2019, 2019.

Email: melanie.thurner@kit.edu