Sujan Koirala
Dr. Sujan Koirala is a Research Project Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, where he leads work on data‑driven and process‑based modeling of the global carbon and water cycles. His research spans machine learning, terrestrial ecosystem modeling, climate extremes, groundwater resources, and large‑scale hydrology. He leads the development of the SINDBAD model–data‑integration framework and contributes to major community efforts such as FLUXCOM and ESMValTool. Dr. Koirala holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Tokyo and has extensive experience in high‑performance computing, scientific software development, and mentoring early‑career researchers.
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The SINDBAD framework, with Sindbad.jl, SindbadTEM, OmniTools.jl, TimeSamplers.jl, and ErrorMetrics.jl packages offers a user‑friendly, Julia‑based system for terrestrial model–data integration. It enables scalable, differentiable experiments across spatial and temporal scales, supporting next‑generation understanding of vegetation–water–carbon interactions.