Dr. Franziska Teubler (nee Gierth), PostDoc Dynamics and predictability of Rossby wave packets Enrico Di Muzio, PostDoc (co-advised with Andreas Fink) Multi-scale dynamics and predictability of Medicanes Marlene Baumgart, PhD student Amplification of forecast uncertainty from a quantitative PV perspective Christian Euler, PhD student Dynamics and predictability during extratropical transition Tobias Kremer, PhD student (co-advised with Elmar Schömer) Trajectory-based analysis of mixing pathways and mixing boundaries Michael Maier-Gerber, PhD student (co-advised with Andreas Fink) Predictability of North-Atlantic tropical cyclogenesis Completed theses: Enrico Di Muzio, PhD student (co-advised with Andreas Fink) Multi-scale dynamics and predictability of Atlantic subtropical cyclones and Medicanes Franziska Teubler (PhD thesis) Dynamics of Rossby wave packets from a quantitative PV perspective Sören Schmidt (Bachelor thesis) Predictability of Rossby wave packets based on object-based ensemble spread Moritz Urbanek (Bachelor thesis) Spin-down of an idealized tropical cyclone in an absolute angular momentum framework Michael Maier-Gerber (Master thesis, co-advised with Andreas Fink) Dynamics and predictability of North-Atlantic tropical transition Isabel Urbich (Master thesis) Environmental interaction and storm evolution during extratropical transition Vanessa Wehner (Master thesis) Ensemble-based predictability study of Rossby wave trains Christian Euler (Diploma thesis) Air masses around Hurricane Katia (2011) from the perspective of Lagrangian coherent structures Marlene Baumgart (Master thesis) Dynamics of forecast errors from a quantitative PV perspective Michael Maier-Gerber (Bachelor thesis) Low-wavenumber modes of an idealized tropical cyclone in vertical wind shear Melanie Lauer (Bachelor thesis) Spindown of tropical cyclones in vertical wind shear Pila Bossmann (Bachelor thesis) Tropical cyclones in vertical wind shear: contributions to near-core shear modification Christa Stipp (Bachelor thesis) Ensemble-based predictability study of Rossby wave trains Marlene Baumgart awarded with the departmental prize: one of the best theses in 2012 (Bachelor thesis) Case studies of the downstream impacts of extratropical transition using Q-vector partitioning Sven Eiermann (Diploma thesis) A novel Q-vector partitioning applied to downstream impacts of extratropical transition