Team

Aiko Voigt
Team Leader and Univ.-Prof. for Climate Science
aiko.voigt@univie.ac.at

Interests: “Thinking deeply about seemingly simple things.”

Blaž Gasparini
Senior Scientist and Team Co-Leader
blaz.gasparini@univie.ac.at

Interests: cloud physics, climate dynamics, solar geoengineering

Zoé Lloret
Postdoc
zoe.lloret@univie.ac.at

Interests: model development, km-scale models, exoplanet

Mostafa Kiani
SNF Fellow (Postdoc)
mostafak57@univie.ac.at

Interests: barystatic processes under climate change, machine learning

Wouter Mol
Postdoc
wouter.mol@univie.ac.at

Interests: Clouds, radiation, deep convection

Johannes Hörner
PhD Student
johannes.hoerner@univie.ac.at

Interests: climate dynamics, climate modeling, snowball Earth

Simon Schleich
PhD Student
simon.schleich@univie.ac.at

Interests: exoplanet observations, Bayesian inverse modelling, data reduction techniques

Dorian Spät
PhD Student
dorian.spaet@univie.ac.at

Interests: tropical dynamics, precipitation

Maximilian Meindl
Project Scientist
maximilian.meindl@univie.ac.at

Interests: km-scale models, machine learning, model evaluation

Logan Cabral-Pelletier
External collaborator
lcabral4@uchicago.edu

Interests: climate dynamics, exoplanets

Lola Valazza
Intern
lola.valazza@etu.univ-lyon1.fr

Patricia Schluschanek
MSc Student

Natalie Auer
MSc Student

Isabella Winterer
MSc Student

David Merei
MSc Student

Former team members

Nicole Albern (PhD, 2017-2020)
Elzina Bala (DAAD stipend, 2018-2022)
Lukas Brunner (senior scientist, 2022-2024)
Christoph Braun (PhD, 2018-2022)
Klara Butz (MSc, 2022)
Anubhav Choudhary (Postdoc, 2018-2022)
Florian Gauvin (summer intern, MeteoFrance, 2024)
Kerstin Haslehner (MSc 2022-2023, project scientist, 2023-2025)
Johannes Hörner (PhD, 2021-2025)
Manuel Huber (MSc, 2022)
Behrooz Keshtgar (PhD, 2020-2024)
Hilke Lentink (Postdoc 2019-2021)
Julian Merio (MSc 2024)
Georgios Papavasileiou (PhD, 2017-2020)
Vanessa Rieger (Postdoc, 2022-2024)
Sylvia Sullivan (Postdoc, 2019-2021)
Lola Valazza (summer intern, Université de Lyon, 2025)
Anatol Waba (MSc, 2024)