In November 2024 Miriam Rodriguez Carrasco joined Prof. Dr. Katharina Waha's research group for climate resilience of human-made ecosystems as a research assistant.

Miriam is from Mexico City, where she studied Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her thesis focused on the effects of climate change on rainfed agriculture. She later earned a Master's degree in Applied and Environmental Geoscience from the University of Tübingen, with a concentration in Environmental Physics. She wrote her thesis about machine learning methods for ENSO forecasting. Her current research interests as a PhD candidate are how to develop climate resilience in land systems by combining satellite data, ecosystem modeling, and strategies for detecting climatic extremes. She is particularly interested in novel techniques for evaluating the effects of climate change on agricultural and land systems.

Miriam joined the group of researchers of the Green Research Network at the Centre for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg. She is working on the sub-project "Stabilizing natural and managed land systems against climate disturbances and extreme events - DETECT."