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You can download a pdf of my CV here.

Education

Ph.D in Climate Science, University College London, 2019
M.Sc. in Global Environmental Change, Kings College London, 2012
B.Sc. in Physical Geography, Philipps University Marburg, Germany, 2010

Work experience

Spring 2017: Willis Tower Watson (Internship)

Catastrophe model research and validation

2013-2014: Centre for Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) (GIS Analyst)

Climate change impacts on the marine environment; Human impacts on the seabed

Summer 2011: Atmosfair (Internship)

Research for carbon offsetting projects

Winter 2010: Climate Alliance (Internship)

Research on Clean Developmen Mechanis and carbon offsetting schemes

Skills

R; Python; Fortran
Familiar with running UK Hadley Centre models & CESM
Analysing large datasets/climate model output
GIS (ArcGIS & QGIS)

Publications

Koch, A., Brierley, C., Maslin, M., Lewis, S.L. (2019). “Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492” Quaternary Science Reviews. 207, 13-36. - This paper reviews evidence for the hypothesis that European arrival in 1492 in the Americas is responsible for lower atmospheric CO2 at around 1600.
Koch, A., Glover, K.E., Zambri, B., Thomas, E.K., Benito-Granell, X., Yang, J.Z. (2018). “Open-data practices and challenges among early-career paleo-researchers” PAGES Magazine. 26(2). - This paper is about Early Career Resesarcher’s perspectives on open paleo-data.
Carter, V., Alexandroff, S., Benito-Granell, X., Bonk, A., Chevalier, C., Kay, A., Koch, A., Maezumi, S.Y., Schafstall, N., Trofimova, T. (2018). “PAGES Early Career Network” PAGES Magazine. 26(1). - This paper introduces the PAGES Early Career Network.

You can also find my publications on my Google Scholar profile

Talks

AGU Fall Meeting 2018
EGU 2018
PAGES OSM 2017

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Service and leadership

Steering committee member of the PAGES Early Career Network