Profile

Professional career

• since 07/2020
  Leipzig University
• 03/2016 - 05/2020
  Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories and the University of Colorado Boulder
• 05/2011 - 02/2016
  University of Cologne
• 01/2011 - 05/2011
  Bonn University

Education

• 05/2011 - 01/2015
  University of Cologne: Meteorology (PhD). Thesis: Exploiting vertically pointing Doppler radar for advancing snow and ice cloud observations.
• 01/2009 - 06/2009
  University Centre in Svalbard: Semester abroad
• 10/2005 - 11/2010
  Bonn University: Meteorology (Diplom). Thesis: Measuring Precipitation with Micro Rain Radars in Svalbard.

See the ORCID profile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2580-9100 or Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vgyek20AAAAJ for a list of publications.

• TRR 172/B08: Characterising the spatial variability of ice water content in and below mixed-phase clouds

  Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 01/2021 – 12/2023

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Meteorologie; SFB Transregio 172: Arktische Verstärkung: Klimarelevante Atmosphären- und Oberflächenprozesse und Rückkopplungsmechanismen (AC)3
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• Characterization of orography-influenced riming and secondary ice production and their effects on precipitation rates using radar polarimetry and Doppler spectra (CORSIPP)

  Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 06/2022 – 08/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Meteorologie; Arktische Klimaveränderung
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• Evaluating Microphysical Pathways Of midlatitude Snow formation (EMPOS)

  Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 09/2023 – 08/2026

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Meteorologie
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more projects

• Maahn, M.; Turner, D. D.; Ebell, K.; Comstock, J. M.; Mace, G. G.; Posselt, D. J.; Löhnert, U.

  Optimal Estimation Retrievals and Their Uncertainties: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2020. 101 (9). pp. E1512–E1523.

  DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0027.1
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• Maahn, M.; Goren, T.; Shupe, M. D.; de Boer, G.

  Liquid Containing Clouds at the North Slope of Alaska Demonstrate Sensitivity to Local Industrial Aerosol Emissions

  Geophysical Research Letters. 2021.

  DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094307
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• Luke, E.; Yang, F.; Kollias, P.; Vogelmann, A. M.; Maahn, M.

  New insights into ice multiplication using remote-sensing observations of slightly supercooled mixed-phase clouds in the Arctic

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2021. 118 (13). pp. 1–9.

  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021387118
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• Mech, M.; Maahn, M.; Kneifel, S.; Ori, D.; Orlandi, E.; Kollias, P.; Schemann, V.; Crewell, S.

  PAMTRA 1.0: the Passive and Active Microwave radiative TRAnsfer tool for simulating radiometer and radar measurements of the cloudy atmosphere

  Geoscientific Model Development. 2020. 13 (9). pp. 4229–4251.

  DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-4229-2020
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more publications

• 12-111-0028 WP3 - Applied Meteorology

• 12-111-0010 P13 - Meteorological measurements