Julia Windmiller is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University

Julia Windmiller, formerly group leader at the MPI-M, has taken on a new role on the other side of the globe: In February she started as a senior lecturer (roughly equivalent to an associate professor) at Monash University in Melbourne—one of Australia’s leading universities. In her new position, Windmiller will be strongly involved in the “ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century", which investigates how climate change affects the weather. It is led by Monash University in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University, and the University of Tasmania, with MPI-M as a partner.  Windmiller will continue her research at the interface between weather and climate in the tropics. Specifically, she will investigate what influences the weather in the tropical rain belt and how this shapes the tropical climate. Windmiller will also be teaching dynamical meteorology at Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment.

“I am very excited to join the 21st Century Weather and Climate Community at Monash University. Building on my research at MPI-M, I would like to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between weather and climate scales and their significance for the climate system,” says Windmiller.

Among other things, she is continuing her work within the DOLDRUMS project. Last year, Windmiller, MPI-M researcher Claudia Timmreck, and Eleonora Rohland from Bielefeld University had successfully secured funding from the Volkswagen Foundation for this innovative project.

At the MPI-M, Julia Windmiller headed the “Tropical Cloud Observations” group from 2023 to the end of 2025, where her responsibilities included overseeing the measurements at the Barbados Cloud Observatory. Together with her team, she also played a leading role in field campaigns such as Mooring Rescue, Atlantic References and Convection (ARC), and ORCESTRA. Since the end of 2025, Tobias Kölling has taken over responsibility for the measurement infrastructure at MPI-M as the new group leader.