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Work Experience

[03/2023–Present]: Expedition Meteorology — PowderGuide.com

Providing personalized weather forecasts for high-altitude mountaineering expeditions in the Americas.

Mountains:

• Ancohuma, Bolivia (6427 m) — April 2026
• Parinacota, Bolivia (6380 m) — May 2026
• Chearoco, Bolivia (6127 m) — May 2026
• Denali, USA (6190 m) — May 2026
• Mount Logan, Canada (5959 m) — ongoing

[03/2023–03/2026]: Postdoctoral Researcher — University of Trento

Project: Next-generation Earth System Models

Supervisor: Simona Bordoni

[09/2019–08/2022]: Postdoctoral Researcher — ICTP, Earth System Physics, Trieste

Research topics:

• Heavy precipitation events in convection-permitting regional climate models
• Tracking algorithms and intercomparison studies
• Model data post-processing and testing

[11/2018–04/2019]: Postdoctoral Researcher — Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

Research topics:

• Convective aggregation in sea surface temperature gradients
• Contribution to the Radiative Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project (RCEMIP)
• Teaching support for All About Atmospheric Waves (Prof. Bjorn Stevens)

[03/2017)]: Guest Researcher — University of Tokyo

• Analysis of NICAM-ICSOM1 model output

[03/2014–03/2015]: Student Assistant — Meteorological Institute Munich

Tropical Meteorology Group:

• Thermal-wind-balanced initialization for numerical models
• Visualization of satellite and model data

[2009–2012]: Student Assistant — Meteorological Institute Munich

• LIDAR remote sensing
• Radiation parameterizations

[08/2011–11/2011]: Internship — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, Research Domain IV.

[04/2010–10/2010]: Internship and B.Sc. Research — German Aerospace Center

Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain - concentrating solar technology research.

Education

[2015–2018]: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

Ph.D. in Earth System Modeling

Dissertation: Convectively Generated Gravity Waves and Convective Aggregation in Numerical Models of Tropical Dynamics

Advisor: Elisa Manzini

[2007–2014]: Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

M.Sc. in Meteorology

Thesis: Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorms in landfalling Tropical Cyclones

Advisor: Roger K. Smith

B.Sc. in Physics and Meteorology

Thesis: The Investigation of Penumbra Functions for Solar Radiation Measurement Instruments

Advisor: Stefan Wilbert

Selected Publications

[2025]

Segura, H., Müller, S. K., et al.

nextGEMS: entering the era of kilometer-scale Earth system modeling

Geoscientific Model Development, 18, 7735–7761.

[2023]

Müller, S. K., Pichelli, E., Coppola, E., et al.

The climate change response of alpine-mediterranean heavy precipitation events

Climate Dynamics.

[2022]

Müller, S. K., Caillaud, C., Chan, S., de Vries, H., et al.

Evaluation of alpine-mediterranean precipitation events in convection-permitting regional climate models using a set of tracking algorithms

Climate Dynamics.

[2020]

Müller, S. K. & Hohenegger, C.

Self-aggregation of convection in spatially varying sea surface temperatures

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

[2018]

Müller, S. K., Manzini, E., Giorgetta, M. A., Sato, K., & Nasuno, T.

Convectively generated gravity waves in high resolution models of tropical dynamics

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10, 2564–2588.

Selected Co-Authorships

• Coppola et al. (2021), Climate hazard indices projections based on CORDEX-CORE, CMIP5 and CMIP6 ensemble](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-021-05640-z), Climate Dynamics.
• Wing et al. (2020), Clouds and convective self‐aggregation in a multimodel ensemble of radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations, JAMES.
• Smith et al. (2015), Tropical low formation during the Australian monsoon: The events of January 2013, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal.
• Douillet et al. (2015), Syn-eruptive, soft-sediment deformation of deposits from dilute pyroclastic density current: triggers from granular shear, dynamic pore pressure, ballistic impacts and shock waves, Solid Earth.

Conference Contributions

Oral Presentations

• EGU General Assembly (2022): The Climate Response of Heavy Precipitation Events over the Alps and in the Mediterranean

PICO Presentations

• EGU General Assembly (2021): The Climate Response of Heavy Precipitation Events over the Alps and in the Mediterranean

Posters

• EGU General Assembly (2018): Sea Surface Temperature Gradients and Convective Aggregation
• AGU Fall Meeting (2016): Tropical Convection and Gravity Waves in Spherical Limited Area Models

Teaching Experience

Tutor — University of Hamburg (10/2018–04/2019)

All About Atmospheric Waves

Lecturer: Bjorn Stevens

Tutor — International Max Planck Research School for Earth System Modeling (05/2016)

Introductory Course

Programming Skills

Advanced

• Python
• LaTeX
• Unix/Linux

Working Knowledge

• Fortran
• MATLAB
• Git

Languages