Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Katja Trachte
Head of Department

Campus Nord, LG 4/3
T +49 (0) 355 69 1105
ORCID: 0000-0003-4269-9668
Curriculum Vitae
- since 10/2019 Professorship for Atmospheric processes at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
- 10/2016 - 03/2018 Substitute professorship for Climatology, Ruhr University Bochum
- 03/2011 - 09/2019 Scientific assistant and lecturer, Philipps-University Marburg, Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing
- 02/2011 PhD, Philipps-University Marburg ("summa cum laude"), "Cold air drainage flows and their relation to the formation of nocturnal convective clouds at the eastern Andes of South Ecuador"
- 2006 Diploma, Philipps-University Marburg "Sensitivitätsstudie zur raumzeitlichen Niederschlagssimulation über dem Alpenraum mit dem Mesoskalenmodell ARPS
Academic memberships
- Editor of "Meteorologische Zeitschrift"
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association for Geography at German-speaking Universities and Research Facilities (VGDH)
- Speaker of the Working group Climate of the German Society for Geography
Awards
- Wilhelm-Lauer-Award, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz for outstanding doctoral thesis
- Award of the Marburger Geographical Society (doctoral thesis)