Dr Frank Kwasniok
Senior Lecturer
Telephone: 01392 723978
Extension: (Streatham) 3978
Dr Frank Kwasniok joined the University of Exeter in March 2006 as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, having previously held research positions at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany), the University of Oldenburg (Germany), the London School of Economics, the Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics (Kuehlungsborn, Germany) and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany).
He is a member of the Exeter Climate Systems centre and the Centre for Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Research interests
- stochastic subgrid-scale modelling
- stochastic low-order models of atmospheric low-frequency variability
- statistics, prediction and predictability of extreme weather events
- analysis and modelling of palaeoclimatic records using simple dynamical systems
- prediction of critical transitions from time series
- statistical post-processing of forecast ensembles
Teaching interests
In the academic year 2015-16, I am module leader for the following course:
- ECM2707 Systems, Series and Transforms
I am also involved in the module:
- ECM1701 Vectors and Matrices
Academic qualifications
PhD in Theoretical Physics, University of Rostock, Germany
Diploma in Physics, University of Muenster, Germany