Since August 2020: Research Associate for climXtreme at the Institute of Meteorology at Freie Universität Berlin

2019: Student Research Assistant for the Central Asian Water Project (CAWA) at GFZ Potsdam

2018: Student Research Assistant for FORLand at the Geography Department of HU Berlin

2020: Master of Science in Geoecology, University of Potsdam
Master Thesis: „Marine heatwaves and the phytoplankton spring bloom"

2015: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde

2025

Lorenz, R., Becker, N., Gardiner, B., Ulbrich, U., Hanewinkel, M., and Schmitz, B.: Tree fall along railway lines: modelling the impact of wind and other meteorological factors, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2179–2196, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2179-2025, 2025.

2024
Gardiner, B. Lorenz, R., Hanewinkel, M., Schmitz, B., Bott, F., Szymczak, S., Frick, A., Ulbrich, U., 2024: Predicting the risk of tree fall onto railway lines
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112723008484

2023
Gliksman,D., Averbeck,P., Becker, N., Gardiner,B., Goldberg, V., Grieger, J., Handorf, D., Haustein, K, Karwat,A., Knutzen, F., Lentink, H.S., Lorenz, R., Niermann, D., Pinto, J.Q., Queck, R., Ziemann, A., and Christian L. E. Franzke,  2023 Review article: A European perspective on wind and storm damage – from the meteorological background to index-based approaches to assess impacts
https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/23/2171/2023/nhess-23-2171-2023-discussion.html

2022
Wind and storm damage: From Meteorology to Impacts Daniel Gliksman, Paul Averbeck, Nico Becker, Barry Gardiner, Valeri Goldberg, Jens Grieger, Dörthe Handorf, Karsten Haustein, Alexia Karwat, Florian Knutzen, Hilke S. Lentink, Rike Lorenz, Deborah Niermann, Joaquim G. Pinto, Ronald Queck, Astrid Ziemann, and Christian L. E. Franzke 2022 - NHESS. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-159

Tagungsbeiträge

Lorenz, R., Becker, N., and Ulbrich, U.: Impacts of extreme wind speeds and other factors on tree fall alongside railway lines, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-6192, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6192, 2023.