⛈️?️ Early Career Researcher of the Month, November 2025 - Dr. Katharina Küpfer
By Lou Brett, University of Strathclyde
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Our Early Career Researcher (ECR) of the Month for November 2025 is Dr. Katharina Küpfer!
Katharina has recently finished her PhD at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Troposphere Research (IMKTRO), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). ?
Katharina’s PhD combined building insurance loss data with meteorological data and investigated impacts of multiple hydro-meteorological extreme events (large-scale storms, convective gusts, hail, pluvial and fluvial flooding) and their interrelationships in Germany. She looked at how impacts are distributed particularly in time, finding that multiple hazard types cluster more than single hazards, while also leading to higher losses. She was also interested in potential atmospheric drivers and found that a positive NAO is related to clustering of windstorm impacts in winter, whereas blocking patterns could favor the occurrence of multiple convective extremes during summer.
Beyond her research interests, Katharina enjoys a range of hobbies including hiking, cycling and classical music! ?️? ?
If you are interested in reading more about Katharina’s research, please find her recent article below:
Impact-based temporal clustering of multiple meteorological hazard types in southwestern Germany (2025)
https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/2885/2025/
Thanks for reading!
CompoundNET Team.