Felix Jäger
Felix Jäger
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-USYS
ETH Zürich
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Additional information
Research area
Forest - climate interactions at planetary scale, Biogeophysical climate effects of land use and land cover changes.
Last update: September 2024
Education and Appointments
| 02/2022 – present |
PhD Candidate in Land-Climate Dynamics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
| 02/2024 - 08/2024 |
Research Visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
| 10/2020 – 02/2022 |
Certificate Student of Environmental Studies, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, Germany. |
| 10/2019 – 01/2022 |
Master Degree in Physics, focus on atmospherical physics, LMU Munich, Germany. |
| 09/2020 – 01/2021 |
Erasmus Semester, focus on oceanography and renewable energy engineering at Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, ENS and ENSTA, Paris, France. |
| 10/2015 – 09/2019 |
Double Bachelor Degree in Physics and Philosophy including two theses, LMU Munich, Germany. |
Publications for Peer-Reviewed Journals
| 08/2024 |
‘Fire Weather Compromises Forestation-reliant Climate Mitigation Pathways’, with J. Schwaab, S. I. Seneviratne and others, published in Earth System Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1055-2024. |
| 01/2023 |
’Robust poleward jet shifts in idealised baroclinic-wave life-cycle experiments with noisy initial conditions’, with P. Rupp and T. Birner, published in Weather and Climate Dynamics, |
Conference Contributions
| 06/2024 |
CESM Workshop 2024: On-site poster 'Decomposition and Filtering of Simulated Climate Responses to Land cover Changes' with J. Schwaab, M. Bukenberger, S. De Hertog, P. Lawrence, I. Simpson, D. Lawrence, and S. I. Seneviratne, Boulder, CO, USA. |
| 03/2024 |
Workshop on 'Confronting Earth System Model Trends with Observations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly': On site poster 'Forest cover changes from observation and projection to Earth System Model forcing' with J. Schwaab and S.I. Seneviratne, Boulder, CO, USA. |
| 11/2023 |
16th Annual Meeting of Ithe Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium: On-site poster ‘Fire Weather Compromises Large-scale Forestation Scenarios’ with J. Schwaab, S. I. Seneviratne and others, Venice, Italy.
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| 09/2023 |
21st International Swiss Climate School: On-site poster ‘Spectral Decomposition and Filtering of Climate Responses to Land Cover Changes’ with J. Schwaab, S. De Hertog and S.I. Seneviratne, Ascona, Switzerland
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| 04/2023 |
EGU General Assembly: On-site presentation ‘Fire Weather Compromises Large-scale Afforestation Scenarios’ with J. Schwaab, S. I. Seneviratne and others, Vienna, Austria.
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| 11/2022 |
7th SPARC General Assembly: On-site Posters ‘Uncertainty of Changes in Atmospheric Circulation from Afforestation’ with J.Schwaab and S. I. Seneviratne and ‘Robust poleward jet shifts in noisy baroclinic-wave life-cycles’ with P. Rupp and T. Birner, Reading, United Kingdom.
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| 06/2022 |
Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures: On-site poster ‘Comparing Forest to Fire Weather Projections’ with Y. Quilcaille, J. Schwaab, S.I. Seneviratne and others, Laxenburg, Austria |
Teaching Experience
| 09/2023 – 02/2024, 09/2022 – 02/2023 |
Teaching assistant for master lecture Land-Climate Dynamics, D-USYS, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 06/2023 |
Teaching assistant in master course Climatological and hydrological field work, D-USYS, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 02/2023 – 06/2023, 02/2022 – 06/2022 |
Tutoring in bachelor seminar Environmental Systems, D-USYS, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 08/2022 |
Correction of the exam for bachelor lecture Atmosphere, D-USYS, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 02/2022 – 06/2022 |
Teaching assistant in master lecture Climate Systems, D-USYS, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 10/2017 – 02/2018 |
Tutor in a Physics Practical Course for students of medicine, Physics Department, LMU Munich, Germany. |
Awards and Grants
| 09/2023 |
ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowship for a 6-month stay as visiting researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA. |
| 09/2020 |
EU mobility grant Erasmus+ for a semester at Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, ENS and ENSTA, Paris, France. |
| 07/2015 |
Hans Riegel Awards Physics, Second place with a term paper on experimental and theoretical assessment of light pollution around cities. |
| 06/2015 |
Highschool Graduation Award: Admission to the German Physical Society. |
| 04/2010 |
First place regional level, third place state level in contest of young researchers in the field of physics with an assessment of granulate behaviour in hourglasses. |
Other Scientific Works and Activities
| 09/2024 |
‘A More Sustainable Way to Attend Distant Science Conferences’, with L. Bloin-Wibe, D. Zhu and H. Wernli, published in EOS, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EO240390.
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| 12/2023 |
Development and organization of the institute-wide workshop “Don't we already know enough? Missing physical understanding needed for action upon climate change”, as part of the AGU Virtual Hub, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 12/2023 |
Co-management of a virtual hub for the conference AGU General Assembly in Zurich to reduce air-travel, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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| 09/2023 |
Co-management of a week-end for experience-sharing activities among doctoral students, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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| 12/2021 |
’Influence of Multimodal Initial Perturbations on the Dichotomy of Baroclinic Life Cycles’, Master Thesis in Atmospheric Physics, supervised by Prof. Dr. T. Birner, LMU Munich, Germany.
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| 03/2021 |
’Distributive Justice in Climate Change Mitigation Strategies - Who Optimizes, Who is to Renounce?’, Term Paper in ’Environmental Ethics’, supervised by Prof. Dr. M. Vogt, LMU Munich, Germany.
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| 07/2019 |
’Radiofrequency Spectroscopy of the Hyperfine Splitting in Be + Ground-State’, Bachelor Thesis in Physics, supervised by Prof. Dr. T. Udem, LMU Munich, Germany.
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| 09/2018 |
’Nonlocal Causation in Classical and Quantum Potentials’, Term Paper in the Seminar ’Foundations of Quantum Information Theory’, LMU Munich, Germany.
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| 07/2018 |
’Is the World Nonlocal? An Assessment of Locality and Explanatory Power in Quantum Mechanics exemplarily applied to QBism’, Bachelor Thesis in Philosophy, supervised by Prof. Dr. S. Hartmann, LMU Munich, Germany.
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Presentations to a broader audience
| 06/2023 |
Introduction to Climate Change for students at Sekundarschule Regensdorf, Switzerland. |
| 05/2023 |
Introduction to Climate Change for criminal law master students, University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 07/2021 |
Introduction to Weather and Climate for the interested public at the ‘Weather Day’ at Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany. |
Other Skills
| IT |
Experience with local and cloud computation methods for large data analysis as well as climatological and meteorological modeling. |
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Skilled with office software, Linux and Windows. |
| Coding experience |
Python 3 (thorough experience with applications in data analysis and visualization and experiment control systems). |
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Bash, R, NCL, C, FORTRAN (Concise projects and variation of existing programs). |
| Languages |
German (mother tongue). |
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English (C1). |
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French (C1). |
Social Activities
| 09/2019 – 12/2023 |
Co-management of events in climate justice movements, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 11/2015 – 01/2022 |
Coordination in the development aid partnership with Alma Mater Hospital, Gros Morne, Haiti. |
| 09/2016 – 12/2021 |
Leader of a youth group in the local parish, Pullach, Germany. |
| 11/2015 – 02/2016 |
Voluntary service in Alma Mater Hospital, Gros Morne, Haiti. |
| 02/2013 – 07/2016 |
Leader of the mass servants in the local parish, Pullach, Germany. |
| 12/2011 – 07/2015 |
Active service as school paramedic, Pullach, Germany. |
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