Visiting researchers

Exchange and collaboration on the topic of mineral dust

The working group mineral dust currently hosts two excellent early-career researchers:

Francesco Moncada is a doctoral student at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain within the doctoral network Dust-DN, in which the Mineral Dust group at KIT also participates. Francesco is visiting the group at KIT for the month of November. He studies the climate impact of anthropogenic dust using the MONARCH atmospheric model, exploring its high-resolution simulations and comparing their results with those from ICON.

Agatha Zamuner is a doctoral student at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the emission and transport of pollutants which bind to or are transported together with dust (e.g. pesticides and microplastics). As part of her doctoral research, she has conducted two field measurement campaigns, and she is also working on modelling observed emission events with Large-Eddy Simulation.

We look forward to the exchange and collaboration.