Robin Middelanis is a PhD student in Research Department 4 - Complexity Science.
He is member of the working group Numerical analysis of global economic impacts and co-developer of acclimate.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
robin.middelanis[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
14412 Potsdam
- since 2020
- PhD Student
- with Prof. Dr. Anders Levermann
- at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- 2017 - 2019
- Studies of Computer Science (M.Sc., Dual Degree)
- with the thesis "An Evaluation of Layer Transferability for Temporal Convolutional Networks"
- supervised by Prof. Dr. Guillaume Pierre
- from EIT Digital Master School
- at Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- and University of Rennes 1, France
- 2015 - 2017
- Development Engineer - Electrics / Electronics
- at Mercedes-Benz R&D, Daimler AG
- 2012 - 2015
- Studies of Mechatronics (B.Eng., Cooperative Study Program)
- at DHBW Stuttgart/Horb
- with Daimler AG
Robin's research is focused on short- and long-term dynamics of shock propagation in the global supply network induced by climate extremes. His interests include agent-based modeling, network analysis and artificial intelligence and their use to better understand global economic impacts of weather extremes and climate change.
- R. Middelanis, S. N. Willner, C. Otto, & A. Levermann. Economic losses from hurricanes cannot be nationally offset under unabated warming. Environmental Research Letters. (2022)
- B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, M. Baldissera, A. Ciullo, L. Coulter, S. Dessai, E. Ercin, H. Goulart, R. Hamed, S. Hochrainer-Stigler, E. Koks, P. Kubiczek, A. Levermann, R. Mechler, M. van Meersbergen, B. Mester, R. Middelanis, K. Minderhoud, J. Mysniak, S. Nirandjan, A. Orlov, C. Otto, P. Sayers, J. Sillmann, J. Schewe, T. G. Shepherd, D. Stuparu, T. Vogt, K. Witpas. Climate impact storylines for assessing socio-economic responses to remote events. Climate Risk Management (submitted). ssnr: CLRM-D-22-00088.
- R. Middelanis, S. N. Willner, C. Otto, K. Kuhla, L. Quante, & A. Levermann. Wave-like global economic ripple response to Hurricane Sandy. Environmental Research Letters. (2021)
- L. Quante, S. N. Willner, R. Middelanis, & A. Levermann. Regions of intensification of extreme snowfall under future warming. Scientific Reports. (2021)
- T. Eichinger, F. Beierle, S. U. Khan, & R. Middelanis. Affinity: A system for latent user similarity comparison on texting data. In ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE. (2019)
- Tagesspiegel: "Wirtschaftliche Schäden durch Wirbelstürme: Für die USA irgendwann nicht mehr tragbar"
- Klimareporter: "Klima-Schäden werden immer mehr zum Wirtschaftsproblem"
- heise online: "Folgen des Klimawandels: US-Wirtschaft könnte dauerhaft Schaden erleiden"
- mdr Wissen: "Klimawandel heizt auch Hurrikane an – deren Kosten werden unbezahlbar"