Alumni

Postdocs

  • Boris Barja, Cloud optical properties in the Amazon derived from ground and satellite based instruments (Nov/2013 to Aug/2016)

PhD Students

  • Diego A. Gouveia, Radiative forcing, physical and optical properties of cirrus clouds over Amazon (2014-2018)
  • Catrin Ciemer, Germany (co-supervision), Causes for dry season changes in South America and impacts on tropical ecosystems (2015-2018)
  • Delphine Clara Zemp, Germany (co-supervision), Feedbacks between vegetation and rainfall in the Amazon basin, a complex network approach (2013-2016)
  • Niklas Boers, Germany (co-supervision), Complex network analysis of extreme rainfall in South America (2012-2015)

MSc Students

  • 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, Characterisation of Cirrus Clouds in Central Amazon Using a Ground Based Lidar (2012-2014)

Undergraduate students

  • Gabriel Trindade, Numerical solution of an aerosol particle growth by condensational of water vapor (2020)
  • Guido Haytzmann, Calibration stability of a Raman lidar for water vapor measurements in the Amazon (2019)
  • Matheus Silva, Detection limit of a lidar system: a modelling study of aerosols at the top of the troposphere (2019)
  • Amanda Santos, 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, 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, Deriving cloud fraction from sky images (2014) and  Construction of a cheap cloud imager (2013)
  • Luiz Azanha, Radiative Forcing of aerosols, clouds and gases, (2013)
  • Albert Franco, Parametrization of shallow non-precipitating clouds (2011)
  • Diego Gouveia, Calibration of water vapor profiles measured with a Raman Lidar (2011)