Title: The space-time structure of climate variability

Authors: Thomas Laepple

Affiliations: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung & MARUM–Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

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Biography: Thomas Laepple is a Professor of Earth System Diagnostics at the University of Bremen and MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, and a research group leader at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany.
He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2009. Following a research stay as Feodor Lynen Fellow at Harvard University, he led a Helmholtz Young Investigator research group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and was awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2017. He is an active member of the PAGES CVAS (Climate Variability Across Scales) initiative, which he led from 2020 to 2023. His current research interest lies in the quantitative synthesis and explanation of paleoclimate data with a focus on sediment and ice-cores. By bridging the gap between geological data and climate models, his working group develops a quantitative approach to using paleoclimate observations to reconstruct climate variability and to constrain estimates of future climate change.