03.12.2024
On November 11, 2024, the DKRZ user group met for its autumn meeting at and with the DKRZ. During the meeting, a new team of speakers was elected: In the future, Dr. Beate Geyer (Hereon) and Dr. David Grawe (CEN, University of Hamburg) will form a dual leadership. The new management team is supported by the representative Dr. Sabine Brinkop (DLR). On this occasion, the now former spokesperson Dr. Bernadette Fritzsch (AWI) was warmly thanked for her many years of commitment. For over 22 years, she has actively represented the interests of all DKRZ users, provided inputs for the further development of the DKRZ services and thus made a significant contribution to the efficient cooperation between the DKRZ and its users. However, she will remain active and will continue to participate in the meetings of the Scientific Steering Committee (WLA) as a representative of the user group.
During their meeting, the user group decided to hold the public part of the meeting in English under the title "Open User Exchange Meeting" in order to motivate users without German language skills to participate and get involved in this dialogue format between the DKRZ and its users.
The Scientific Steering Committee (WLA) elected a new executive committee at its meeting on June 7, 2024: Prof. Johannes Quaas (University of Leipzig, on the photo the third person from the left ) will take over its leadership, replacing Dr. Frauke Feser (Hereon). Prof. Sönke Zähle (MPI for Biogeochemistry Jena) will be his deputy. The new leadership officially took up its work at the WLA meeting on November 26, 2024. The DKRZ thanked the former team for their commitment, especially the former deputy Prof. Uwe Ulbrich (Free University of Berlin), who had been working in the WLA since May 2016 and is now leaving the committee completely.