Nils Hutter
Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Ocean Dynamics
Office:
Room No.: 3.303, Building 5 (ENB)
Phone: +49 431 600 1335
E-mail: nhutter(at)geomar.de
Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Wischhofstr. 1 - 3
24148 Kiel
Germany
Research interest
- Small-scale processes in ocean and ice that drive the variability of the climate system studied as big data problems beyond single case studies
- Development of hybrid models using machine learning in numerical models to learn new climate physics from observational data
- Sea-ice dynamics: fracture, floes, leads, and ridges in high resolution sea ice and climate simulations, as well as airborne and satellite observations
Research positions
Since 2024: Senior Scientist (tenure-track), GEOMAR Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
2021 - 2023 CICOES Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2022 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
2019 - 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Since 2018, Ongoing career breaks for parental leave, cumulative full time equivalent: >1.25 years
Education
2015 - 2019 PhD in Physics, Alfred-Wegener-Institute and University of Bremen, Germany (Thesis: Resolving Leads in Sea‐Ice Models: New Analysis Methods for Frontier Resolution Arctic Simulations)
2013 - 2015 Master of Science: Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany and University Center in Svalbard (UNIS), Lonyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway (Thesis: Viscous-plastic sea ice models at very high resolution)
2012 - 2013 Physical Engineering Science (Master programme), Technical University of Berlin, Germany
2009 - 2012 Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Hamburg, Germany (Thesis: Application of n2-linear Layers in Wave Number Integration (Ocean Acoustics))
Fellowships and awards
2021 Helmholtz doctoral award, in research field Earth and Environment
2020 CICOES Postdoctoral fellowship, NOAA Cooperative Institute of Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies at the University of Washington, USA
2019 Best presentation awards, at ICYMARE conference 2019
2017 Science award of the OLB foundation, dedicated to the best Master Thesis in North Germany
2017 Best presentation award, at AWI PhD conference
2015 OHB award, dedicated to outstanding achievements in the international Master programme
2013 Buxmann award, dedicated to the best mechanical engineering student at Technical University of Hamburg
2012 Jungheinrich award, dedicated to outstanding achievements in engineering design
Travel grants: MOSAiC conference 2023, NCAR 2022, SIPW05 Cambridge 2022, FAMOS meeting 2018, China visit 2017, FAMOS meeting 2017
