Presenter

Marek Jacob
Biography
Marek Jacob studied meteorology at the University of Hamburg with a focus on scientific and high performance computing and graduated in 2016. He received a PhD in meteorology from the University of Cologne in 2020, where he studied trade wind clouds using airborne microwave remote sensing. During his PhD time he participated in several international field experiments. Since 2021, he has been a scientific software developer at the German Weather Service (DWD) and has been preparing the weather model code for GPU computing.