Karin Mora
Postdoctoral fellow in theDeepFeatures project
Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences
I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Leipzig University. I seek to uncover, explain, and predict spatiotemporal dynamics, particularly in ecological systems. I employ a range of modelling approaches, spanning from differential equations to machine learning, to gain profound insights into these complex systems. My ultimate goal is to not only characterise and quantify but also explain the emergence of intricate behaviours in such systems.
Currently, my main project focuses on combining data science and dynamical system theory to reveal complex interactions between biodiversity and climate change. It is funded by the proposed excellence clusterBreathing Nature.
Past projects include:“Extracting spatiotemporal macroechological patterns using crowd-sourced plant occurrence data” funded byFLEXPOOL, iDiv.
Supervision (recent):
- Francesco Martinuzzi, PhD funded byScaDS.AI, Modeling impacts of extreme events using Reservoir Computing
- Leonard Schulz, Masterthesis with Theoretical Physics, Inferring dynamical information of the Earth system from dimensionality-reduction, 2023
- Anna Schackow, Bacholor in Meteorology, Multiscale time series decomposition of sapflux measurements, 2023
Awards and grants include:
- Workpackage PI for the DeepFeatures project funded by ESA AI4Science, 2024-2026
- Workpackage PI for theDeepExtremes project funded by ESAAI4Science, 2022-2024
- Forschungspreis 2015, Paderborn University, Germany
- Technion Postdoctoral Scholarship (2014-15), Israel
- Funding for organising an EWM summer school mini-course (2013): Dynamical systems and bifurcation theory with applications to the dynamics of planet Earth
- Doctoral Training Scholarship EPSRC-SCI-DTA (2008-13), UK
For more details please visitmy personal site.
- nonlinear dynamics
- complexity
- time series analysis
- data science, machine learning
- mathematical ecology, biodiversity
- land-atmosphere interactions
PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2014
University of Bath, UK
Master of Mathematics, 2008
University of Reading, UK
Latest
- DeepExtremeCubes: Earth System Spatio-Temporal Data for Assessing Compound Heatwave and Drought Impacts
- Macrophenological Dynamics from Citizen Science Plant Occurrence Data
- Biodiversity and Climate Extremes: Known Interactions and Research Gaps
- DeepExtremeCubes: Integrating Earth System Spatio-Temporal Data for Impact Assessment of Climate Extremes
- Citizen Science Plant Observations Encode Global Trait Patterns
- Classification Characteristics of Fine Motor Experts Based on Electroencephalographic and Force Tracking Data
- ReservoirComputing.Jl: An Efficient and Modular Library for Reservoir Computing Models
- Classification of Visuomotor Tasks Based on Electroencephalographic Data Depends on Age-Related Differences in Brain Activity Patterns
- Electrophysiological Signatures of Dedifferentiation Differ between Fit and Less Fit Older Adults
- Explanation of the Onset of Bouncing Cycles in Isotropic Rotor Dynamics; a Grazing Bifurcation Analysis
- The Influence of Asymmetric Electrodes on the Non-Planar Dynamics of a Parametrically Excited Nonlinear Microbeam
- Improved Neural Control of Movements Manifests in Expertise-Related Differences in Force Output and Brain Network Dynamics
- Age- and Expertise-Related Differences of Sensorimotor Network Dynamics during Force Control
- Parametric Excitation of a Microbeam-String With Asymmetric Electrodes: Multimode Dynamics and the Effect of Nonlinear Damping
- Non-Smooth Hopf-Type and Grazing Bifurcations Arising from Impact/Friction Contact Events
- The Influence of Imperfections on the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of a Parametrically Excited Nonlinear Viscoelastic Micro-Beam-String
- Non-Smooth Hopf-type Bifurcations Arising from Impact--Friction Contact Events in Rotating Machinery
- Non-imaging optics for LED-lighting
- DSTL: Analytical Solutions for Compartmental Models of Contaminant Transport in Enclosed Spaces
- Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems: An Overview