Maximilian Ringel received his Bachelor and Master of Science in Meteorology from the University of Hamburg in 2020 and 2023. During his studies he focused early on atmospheric remote sensing using satellite and airborne observations. Within his Masters he also started to focus more on polar science by studying one semester at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS). In his Master's thesis he developed a neural-network ice water path retrieval for airborne microwave observations of Arctic clouds during the HALO-(AC)³ campaign.

After finishing his studies he further worked with airborne observations of cloud liquid water path of different Arctic campaigns at the University of Cologne. Since September 2024 he is a PhD candidate in the Remote Sensing of Polar Regions Group at the University of Bremen. In his doctoral research - which is integrated in the transregional (AC)³ project (http://www.ac3-tr.de/) - he is now focusing on satellite remote sensing of Arctic sea ice albedo and melt ponds.

• Master's thesis: A Neural-Network-Based Ice Water Path Retrieval for Airborne Microwave Observations
• Bachelor's thesis: Validation of Tropical Satellite Precipitation Observations by Ship Observations

• EUREC4A | January-February 2020: Student Assistant for the handling of radiosonde operations at the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO)
• UNIS student courses | October 2021: Land- and sea-based fieldwork for meteorological as well as oceanographical measurements
• HALO-(AC)³ | March 2022: Pre-flight calibration as well as in-flight operation of the passive microwave radiometers and the cloud radar of the DLR research aircraft HALO

• (AC)³ – Arctic Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and Surface Processes, Feedbacks, and Mechanisms [DFG] | Cluster C01: Effects of heterogeneous sea ice properties on radiative energy fluxes and its influence on Arctic Amplification
• DMG - German Meteorolgical Society
• APECS - Association of Polar Early Career Scientists