Research Interests

  • Current and future urban climates
  • Thermal comfort and heat stress
  • Numerical and statistical modelling
  • Downscaling climate change projections to building scale
  • Quantitative urban climate / thermal comfort research

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, IMKTRO, KIT
  • 2021-2024: PhD Student, Chair of Environmental Meteorology, University of Freiburg
  • 2020-2024: Research Assistant, Chair of Environmental Meteorology, University of Freiburg
  • 2016-2020: M.Sc. Student “Environmental Science / Environmental Modelling and Data Sciences”, University of Freiburg
  • 2012-2016: B.Sc. Student “Umweltnaturwissenschaften”, University of Freiburg

Publications

Briegel F, Wehrle J, Schindler D, Christen A (2024): High-resolution multi-scaling of outdoor human thermal comfort and its intra-urban variability based on machine learning. Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 1667-1688, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1667-2024

Briegel F, Makansi O, Brox T, Matzarakis A, Christen A (2023): Modelling long-term thermal comfort conditions in urban environments using a deep convolutional encoder-decoder as a computational shortcut. Urban Climate, 47, 101359, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101359

Lee S-C, Christen A, Black TA, Jassal RS, Briegel F, Nesic Z (2021): Combining flux variance similarity partitioning with artificial neural networks to gap-fill measurements of net ecosystem production of a Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir stand. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 303, 108382, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108382

Briegel F, Lee S-C, Black TA, Jassal RS, Christen A (2020): Factors controlling long-term carbon dioxide exchange between a Douglas- fir stand and the atmosphere identified using an artificial neural network approach. Ecological Modelling, 435, 109266, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109266