Andries - Jan de Vries - The Cyprus Institute

Curriculum VitaeAndries - Jan de VriesBusiness Email:a.devries@cyi.ac.cyBusiness Phone: +357 22 208623The Cyprus InstituteEEWRC - 10420 Konstantinou Kavafi St, 2121 Aglantzia.P.O BOX 27456, 1645 NicosiaCyprusEducation:2009 - MSc in Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, theNetherlands.Master thesis entitled "Parametrization of Subgrid-Scale Orographic Drag in a Numerical Weather PredictionModel" was done at the Swiss Federal Institute for Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich,Switzerland2003 - BSc in Civil Engineering, HR&O, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Professional Experience:01/05/2011 - to date;The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus;Research Assistant;Study on the atmospheric dynamics and climatology of extreme precipitation events in the Middle East.01/10/2009 - 31/12/2009;Swiss Federal Institute for Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland;Internship;Study on the sensitivity and tuning of the subgrid-scale orographic drag parameters.01/01/2008 - 31/06/2008;MeteoConsult, Wageningen, the Netherlands;Internship;Study on 3D-variational data assimilation in mesoscale model WRF1

01/12/2003 - 31/06/2006;Kiwa N.V., Rijswijk, the Netherlands;EmployeeInspection of environmental protection constructionsResearch Experience:Numerical weather prediction models: MM5, WRF and COSMOPost processing tools: NCL, MatlabOperating systems: Lunix, WindowsData: ERA-Interim Reanalysis, TRMM, Aphrodite, ECA&D, station dataHonours and Achievements:The BSC thesis was awarded with the second price in the national competition of innovative steelconstructions for studentsTraining Attended:EMAC Symposium, Max Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany (14/2/2012 - 16/2/2012)WRF seminar, the Cyprus institute, Nicosia, Cyprus (2/5/2011 - 6/5/2011)Presentations and Outreach:12th EMS Annual Meeting , Lodz, Poland (September 2012)De Vries A.J., Tyrlis, E., Krichak, S.O., Edry, D., Steil, B., Lelieveld, J., "Extreme Precipitation in the Middle East:Dynamics of the Active Red Sea Trough" (oral presentation)EWACC, Nicosia, Cyprus (December 2012)De Vries A.J., Tyrlis, E., Krichak, S.O., Edry, D., Steil, B., Lelieveld, J., "Extreme Precipitation Events in the MiddleEast: Dynamics of the Active Red Sea Trough" (poster presentation)EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria (April 2013)De Vries A.J., Tyrlis, E., Krichak, S.O., Edry, D., Steil, B., Lelieveld, J., “Extreme Precipitation Events in the MiddleEast: Dynamics of the Active Red Sea Trough” (oral presentation)Seminar Wageningen University (April 2013)De Vries A.J., Tyrlis, E., Krichak, S.O., Edry, D., Steil, B., Lelieveld, J., (2013), “Extreme Precipitation Events in theMiddle East: Dynamics of the Active Red Sea Trough” (oral presentation)13th EMS Annual Meeting (September 2013)De Vries A.J., Feldstein, S.B., Hadjinicolaou, P., Tyrlis, E., Lelieveld, J., (2013), Extreme Precipitation Events inthe Middle East: Climatology of the Active Red Sea Trough (oral presentation)PublicationsDe Vries, A. J., E. Tyrlis, D. Edry, S. O. Krichak, B. Steil, and J. Lelieveld (2013), Extreme precipitation events inthe Middle East: Dynamics of the Active Red Sea Trough, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 7087–7108,doi:10.1002/jgrd.50569.2