Prof. Dr. Karim Zantout

Vita

Education

• PhD | 2021 | Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Theoretical Physics
• M. Sc. in Physics | 2016 | Goethe University Frankfurt
• B. Sc. in Mathematics | 2021 | Goethe University Frankfurt
• B. Sc. in Physics | 2014 | Goethe University Frankfurt

Work experience

• Professor for “Data Science and IT” | since 03/2025 | University of Applied Science Karlsruhe
• Postdoctoral Researcher | 04/2022 - 02/2025 | Potsdam Insitute for Climate Impact Research
• Data science | 04/2021 - 04/2022 | emsys grid services GmbH

Awards and Scholarships

• selected for Mercator Fellowship (not assumed) | 2025
• Walter-Greiner award | 2022
• Stummel-Stiftung advancement award | 2021
• "Distinguished personality with migration background" | 2018
• Philip-Siedler science award | 2017
• Hans-Böckler Foundation scholarship | 2011-2016
• Erasmus+ scholarship | 2014

Teaching

• Project climate-energy-resources | winter term 2025/26
• Big Data basics | winter term 2025/26
• Programming languanges: continuation | winter term 2025/26
• Software Engineering | winter term 2025/26
• Data Science | winter term 2025/26
• Mathematics I | winter term 2025/26
• Spatial Data Science | summer term 2025, 2026
• Big Data with geolocation | summer term 2025, 2026
• Mathematics and didactics II | summer term 2025, 2026
• Geomonitoring | summer term 2026
• Databases | summer term 2025
• Digital image processing | summer term 2025

Research

• Geographical and temporal analysis of extreme climate impacts
• Modeling of (climate-related) human mobility
• Stability of power grids

Publications

pre-prints:

2026

• Karim Zantout, Dánnell Quesada-Chacón, Sandra Zimmermann, Jan Volkholz, Katja Frieler, Jacob Schewe,
  Recovery time and exposure for six harmonized extreme climate event categories under global warming,
  pre-print on research square (2026)

2025

• Kristina Petrova, Karim Zantout, Sandra Zimmermann, Venla Niva, Matti Kummu, Katja Frieler, Jacob Schewe,
  Differential effects of extreme climate impacts on global district-level net migration
  pre-print on research square (2025)

peer-reviewed:

2026

• Stefanie Heinicke, Karim Zantout, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Christopher P. O. Reyer, Sandra Zimmermann, Maik Billing, Simon N. Gosling, Manolis Grillakis, Stijn Hantson, Akihiko Ito, Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Aristeidis Koutroulis, Benedikt Mester, Hannes Müller Schmied, Sebastian Ostberg, Kedar Otta, Yadu Pokhrel, Katja Frieler
  Land vertebrates increasingly exposed to multiple extreme events by 2085,
  Nature Ecology and Evolution 10, 854–863 (2026)

2025

• Karim Zantout, Juraj Balkovic, Maik Billing, Christian Folberth, Simon N. Gosling,
  Tobias Hank, Stijn Hantson, Toshichika Iizumi, Akihiko Ito, Jonas Jägermeyr,
  Atul K. Jain, Nikolay Khabarov, Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Fang Li, Mengxue Li,
  Tzu-Shun Lin, Wenfeng Liu, Christoph Müller, Masashi Okada,
  Sebastian Ostberg, Kedar Otta, Sam Rabin, Christopher P. O. Reyer,
  Clemens Scheer, Julia M. Schneider, Florian Zabel, Katja Frieler, Jacob Schewe
  Shifting dominant periods in extreme climate impacts under global warming,
  Nature Communications 16, 9746 (2025)
• K. Zantout, J. Schewe,
  Stochastic evolution model for international migration,
  PLoS One 20(10): e0332886 (2025)
• Jonas B. Profe, Jiawei Yan, Karim Zantout, Philipp Werner, Roser Valentí,
  Multi-orbital two-particle self-consistent approach -- strengths and limitations,
  SciPost Phys. 19 026 (2025)
• H. Sterly, M. Borderon, P. Sakdapolrak, N. Adger, A. Ayanlade, A. Bah, J. Blocher, S. Blondin, S. Boly, T. Brochier, L. Brüning, S. Bunchuay-Peth, D. O’Byrne, R. Safra De Campos, S. N. A. Codjoe, F. Debève, A. Detges, M. Franco-Gavonel, C. Hathaway, N. Funke, F. Gemenne, F. Gubert, E. Gurmu, R. Keeton, B. Ketsomboon, M. Leroy, N. Majidi, S. Marchisio, M. Abu, S. Naruchaikusol, F. Negozio, H. Nicolle, G. Nucera, L. Olsson, J. Owuor, P. Ozer, E. Piguet, D. Reckien, S. Redicker, D. Andreolla Serraglio, B. Sultan, D. Tänzler, S. Vigil, K. Vinke, K. Zantout, C. Zickgraf,
  Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world,
  Global Environmental Change 90, 102953 (2025)

2024

• S. Michelini, K. Petrova, C. Gong, K. Zantout,
  Improving on Complexity: Ideas for Enhancing Quantitative Modeling of Climate Mobility,
  Annalen der Physik (2024) 2300545

2023

• K. Zantout, S. Backes, A. Razpopov, D. Lessnich, R. Valenti,
  Improved effective vertices in the multi-orbital Two-Particle Self-Consistent method
  from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, 
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 235101 (2023)
  arXiv:2211.01400 (2022)

2021

• K. Zantout, S. Backes, R. Valenti, 
  Two-Particle Self-Consistent method for the multi-orbital Hubbard model, 
  Annalen der Physik (2021) 2000399
  arXiv:2008.08098 (2020)

2020

• S. Bhattacharyya, K. Björnson, K. Zantout, D. Steffensen, L. Fanfarillo, A. Kreisel, R. Valenti, B. M. Andersen, P. J. Hirschfeld, 
  Non-local correlations in Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides, 
  Phys. Rev. B 102, 035109 (2020)
  arXiv:2003.01638 (2020)
• J. M. Pizarro, S. Adler, K. Zantout, T. Mertz, P. Barone, R. Valenti, G. Sangiovanni, T. O. Wehling, 
  Deconfinement of Mott Localized Electrons into Topological and Spin-Orbit Coupled Dirac Fermions, 
  npj Quantum Materials 5, 79 (2020)
  arXiv:2001.04102 (2020)

2019

• K. Zantout, S. Backes, R. Valenti, 
  Effect of non-local correlations on the electronic structure of LiFeAs, 
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 256401 (2019)
  arXiv:1906.11853 (2019)
• T. Mertz, K. Zantout, R. Valenti, 
  Statistical Analysis of the Chern Number in the Interacting Haldane-Hubbard Model, 
  Phys. Rev. B 100, 125111 (2019)
  arXiv:1905.02218 (2019)

2018

• T. Mertz, K. Zantout, R. Valenti, 
  Self-Energy Dispersion in the Hubbard Model, 
  Phys. Rev. B 98, 235105 (2018)
  arXiv:1806.09645 (2018)
• K. Zantout, M. Altmeyer, S. Backes, R. Valenti, 
  Superconductivity in correlated BEDT-TTF molecular conductors: Critical temperatures and gap symmetries, 
  Phys. Rev. B 97, 014530 (2018)
  arXiv:1711.09630 (2017)

Project reports

• Jacob Schewe, Karim Zantout,
  Scenarios for future international migration under climate change,
  HABITABLE project report D3.4 (2024)

Theses

• PhD thesis (2020) with corrections (June 2022):
  The Two-Particle Self-Consistent approach and its application to real materials
• Master thesis (2016):
  Unconventional superconductivity within the single-orbital Hubbard model beyond the Random Phase Approximation
• Bachelor thesis mathematics (2020):
  Eigenschaften des Spektrums periodischer Schrödingeroperatoren
• Bachelor thesis physics (2014):
  London-, Ginzburg-Landau- und Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-Theorie für konventionelle Supraleiter

Interests

• Climate Communication (Climate Working Group of the German Physical Society)
• Anti-discrimination and anti-racism