Former Group Members

Postdocs

  • Tailine Santos, USP, Brazil, Remote sensing of aerosol hygroscopicity (Feb/2022 to Aug 2022)
  • Diego A. Gouveia, USP, Brazil, Remote sensing of clouds in the Amazon rainforest (Sep/2019 to Nov/2020)
  • Boris Barja, USP, Brazil, Cloud optical properties in the Amazon derived from ground and satellite based instruments (Nov/2013 to Aug/2016)

PhD Students

  • Leandro Viscardi, USP, Brazil, A numerical simulation study of the transition of shallow to deep convection in the Amazon (2019 to 2023)
  • Alex Sandro Alves de Araujo, USP, Brazil, Evaluating the atmospheric origins and ecological impacts of current and future drought events in South America using complex networks (2017 to 2023)
  • Marie Brunel, PIK, Germany (co-supervision), Fire practice on Brazilian managed grasslands and its implementation in LPJmL 4.0 (2018 to 2021)
  • Nico Wunderling, PIK, Germany (co-supervision), Critical thresholds within the Earth’s climate (2017 to 2021)
  • Diego A. Gouveia, USP, Brazil, Radiative forcing, physical and optical properties of cirrus clouds over Amazon (2014-2018)
  • Catrin Ciemer, PIK, Germany (co-supervision), Causes for dry season changes in South America and impacts on tropical ecosystems (2015-2018)
  • Delphine Clara Zemp, PIK, Germany (co-supervision), Feedbacks between vegetation and rainfall in the Amazon basin, a complex network approach (2013-2016)
  • Niklas Boers, PIK, Germany (co-supervision), Complex network analysis of extreme rainfall in South America (2012-2015)

MSc Students

  • Ismail Olumegbon, UMBC, USA, Causal links in biosphere-atmosphere interactions (2022-2024)
  • Luan de Paula Cordeiro, USP, Brazil, Raman lidar determination of the extinction and backscatter coefficients of cirrus clouds in the Amazon (2021-2023)
  • Matheus Tolentino da Silva, USP, Brazil, Ground-based remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols: a modeling study of a lidar system detection limit (2020-2021)
  • Ben-Hur Martins Portella, USP, Brazil, Recent trends of cirrus cloud cover over the Amazon region from satellite observations (2020-2021)
  • Kécia Maria da Silva, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil (co-supervision), Climatology of Maritime and Terrestrial Breezes in the State of Alagoas (2020-2022)
  • Francisco A. Gomes da Silva, State University of Amazonas, Brazil (co-supervision) Analysis of the structure of the atmospheric boundary layer in eastern Amazon from lidar and radiosondes (2017-2019)
  • Mario Castro Santiago, Universidad de Granada, Spain (co-supervision), Analysis of aerosol-cloud interactions in Amazonia during GoAmazon (2018-2019)
  • Jop Auke van Dijk, Radboud University, Netherlands (co-supervision), Comparison of thermodynamic profiles obtained from radiosondes, microwave radiometer and reanalysis (2017-2019)
  • Alex Sandro Alves de Araujo, Effects of urban pollution on aerosol higroscopicity and cloud droplet activation in warm clouds in the Amazon during GoAmazon 2014/5 (2015-2017)
  • Diego A. Gouveia, USP, Brazil, Characterisation of Cirrus Clouds in Central Amazon Using a Ground Based Lidar (2012-2014)

Undergraduate students

  • Michael Moody, UMBC, USA, Vertical Distribution of Urban Pollution Over the Amazon Rainforest (2025)
  • Jackson Moore, UMBC, USA, Diurnal cycle of cloud cover in the Amazon rainforest from an all-sky Imager (2025)
  • Gabriel Dorneles da Silva Barreiros, USP, Brazil, Lidar measurements of fog occurrence at the ATTO tower (2022)
  • Jessica Karina Moraes Gamboa, USP, Brazil, Development of a cloud parcel model (2022)
  • Lucas Rodrigues Cesar de Mattos, USP, Brazil, Measurement of the aerosol vertical profile in the Amazon region using the Raman lidar technique (2022)
  • Gabriel Alexandre Gonçalves Costa, USP, Brazil, Measurement of the aerosol vertical profile in the Amazon region using the lidar technique (2022)
  • Gabriel Trindade, USP, Brazil, Numerical solution of an aerosol particle growth by condensation of water vapor (2020)
  • Guido Haytzmann, USP, Brazil, Calibration stability of a Raman lidar for water vapor measurements in the Amazon (2019)
  • Matheus Silva, USP, Brazil, Detection limit of a lidar system: a modelling study of aerosols at the top of the troposphere (2019)
  • Amanda Santos, USP, Brazil, Vertical distribution of the Manaus pollution plume during GoAmazon IOP1 (2018) and Vertical distribution of clouds in central Amazon from the measurements of a ceilometer (2017)
  • Giovanni Souza, USP, Brazil, Characterisation of background noise and pointing direction of a sky-imager (2018) and Diurnal cycle of cloud cover in Sao Paulo derived from measurements of a low-cost sky-imager (2016)
  • Alex Araujo, USP, Brazil, Deriving cloud fraction from sky images (2014) and  Construction of a cheap cloud imager (2013)
  • Luiz Azanha, USP, Brazil, Radiative Forcing of aerosols, clouds and gases, (2013)
  • Albert Franco, USP, Brazil, Parametrization of shallow non-precipitating clouds (2011)
  • Diego Gouveia, USP, Brazil, Calibration of water vapor profiles measured with a Raman Lidar (2011)