ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung

Dr. Maxime Colin

Scientist

Department: Integrated Modelling

Working Groups: WG Complexity and Climate

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Office: Fahrenheitstr. 8
28359 Bremen

Room: 3211 (2nd Floor)

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Research interests

I'm a climate scientist, and I'm passionate about applying physics to study climate and cloud processes, and in particular tropical convection. I'm interested in deep convection, clouds, tropical meteorology, microphysics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, mesoscale dynamics, monsoons, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, etc...

I aim to understand basic mechanisms to explain and understand how the Earth's climate behave.

At ZMT, I'm working with Prof. Jan Haerter on idealised simulations of monsoons over an aquapatch, to understand the relationship between surface thermodynamic contrasts and precipitation intensity.

During my PhD, I was investigating what the sources of convective memory in idealised cloud-resolving simulations are, and how to apply convective memory in Global Climate Models. My project aimed at improving convective parameterizations in GCMs, and partly focused on convective memory coming from atmospheric cold pools.

Previous roles:
2021- : Postdoc researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (Germany)
2020-2021: Research Associate at the University of New South Wales (Australia)
2018-2020: Lecturer (full-time teaching) at the University of French Polynesia (French Polynesia)

Education:
2018: Joint PhD in climate science from the University of New South Wales (main university, Australia) and Sorbonne Université (partner university, France). Main supervisor: Steven Sherwood. Co-supervisors: Sandrine Bony, Jean-Yves Grandpeix.
2013: First-class physics and chemistry teaching certificate "Agrégation" (France)
2012: Masters in atmosphere, ocean, and climate physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure (France) and Université Pierre and Marie Curie (France)
2009: Undergraduate in fundamental physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure (France) and Université Paris Diderot (France)

Useful links:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=P6-nBiQAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
https://www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/marine-tropics-research/who-we-are/maxime-colin.html
https://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/ccrc-team/alumni/maxime-colin