Lilian Schuster

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Interested in glacier modelling, climate change science & sustainability

I like spending time in the mountains!

About me

I am a PhD student at the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), Universität Innsbruck.
For my PhD, I am working with the Open Global Glacier Model OGGM on the topic of “Improving our understanding of future multi-century mountain glacier changes and runoff”, supervised by Fabien Maussion and David Rounce.

Explore my publications and preprints for a complete list of contributions. A selection is provided below.

Education & previous research

I hold an M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences with a focus on Climate and Glaciology from the Universität Innsbruck, Austria. My Master’s thesis topic was the Response time sensitivity of glaciers using the open global glacier model: from idealised experiments to an estimate for alpine glaciers, supervised by Fabien Maussion. During my Master’s studies, I also worked as a student research assistant on the climatology of precipitation and moisture sources over an arid region in Northeast Greenland as part of the Northeast Greenland Caves Project, led by Gina Moseley, which resulted in a publication (Schuster et al., 2021).

Previously, I earned a B.Sc. in Physics at the Universität Konstanz, Germany, complemented by an internship at the Andøya Space Center in Norway, where I worked on my Bachelor thesis about simulating height-dependent solar UV irradiance in the mesopause region.

selected publications or preprints

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    Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5°C
    Lilian Schuster, Fabien Maussion, David R Rounce, Lizz Ultee, Patrick Schmitt, Fabrice Lacroix, Thomas Frölicher, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
    Sep 2024
    Preprint (version 1) available at the DOI
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    Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C
    Harry Zekollari, Lilian Schuster, Fabien Maussion, Regine Hock, Ben Marzeion, David R. Rounce, Loris Compagno, Koji Fujita, Matthias Huss, Megan James, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, William H. Lipscomb, Samar Minallah, Moritz Oberrauch, Lander Van Tricht, Nicolas Champollion, Tamsin Edwards, Daniel Farinotti, Walter Immerzeel, Gunter Leguy, and Akiko Sakai
    Dec 2024
    Harry Zekollari and Lilian Schuster contributed equally. Preprint (version 1) available at the DOI
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  3. Glacier projections sensitivity to temperature-index model choices and calibration strategies
    Lilian Schuster, David R. Rounce, and Fabien Maussion
    Annals of Glaciology, Dec 2023
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