Dr. Cathy Hohenegger (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, DE) is a climate scientist whose work has been central to advancing km-scale modeling of moist convection from weather to climate applications. Trained at ETH Zurich, she investigated the predictability of convection at the dawn of km-scale numerical weather prediction, followed by postdoctoral work at ETH and the University of Washington. Since 2010, she has led an independent research group at MPI-M, focusing on the dynamical controls of deep convection and land–ocean precipitation feedbacks. She has co-led the development of global km-scale climate models, culminating in the first fully coupled water–energy–carbon cycle simulation at 1.25 km resolution, recognized by the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize in climate modeling.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schulthess (CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Center, CH) is a Director of the CSCS and Professor of Computational Physics at ETH Zurich. Prof. Schulthess spearheaded innovations including Europe’s first GPU-accelerated supercomputing system and co-developed MeteoSwiss’ cutting-edge weather forecasting model optimized for GPU architectures, an achievement that earned the prestigious Swiss ICT Award in 2016. He has twice won the most prestigious prize in computing, the Gordon Bell Prize (2008, 2009), and has been a mastermind and architect of many of the innovative approaches required for simulations of the Earth system at kilometer and finer scales.
Prof. Tiffany Shaw (University of Chicago, US) is a climate scientist whose work bridges theory, numerical models (physics-based and AI), and observations to improve confidence in climate projections. Her most recent research focuses on understanding the physical mechanisms underlying discrepancies between climate model predictions and observed signals, particularly in atmospheric circulation. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Physical Society and a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
Dr. Axel Timmermann (IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, KR) is a leading Earth system scientist with more than two decades of internationally recognized research spanning Europe, the United States, and Asia. He is the founding director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics in Busan, South Korea. His work covers a broad spectrum osf topics, including high-energy physics, El Niño–Southern Oscillation dynamics, paleoclimate, physical oceanography, climate predictability, isotope geochemistry, dynamical systems, human evolution, and theoretical ecology. His current research focuses on speleothem-based climate reconstructions from the Kalahari Desert, models of terrestrial life, and high-resolution Earth system modeling.
Invited speakers
- Ryan Abernathy* (Columbia University)
- Peter Dueben (ECMWF)
- Claudia Frauen (DKRZ)
- Nicolas Gruber (ETH Zurich)
- Christian Jakob (Monash University)
- Tobias Kölling (MPI-M)
- Jenni Kontkanen (CSC-IT)
- Bryan Lawrence (NCAS)
- Hailong Liu (IAP, CAS)
- Tina Odaka* (IFREMER)
- Adam Sobel (Columbia University)
- Allison Wing (Florida State University)
- Laure Zanna* (New York University)
* pending confirmation
