Jan-Peter Schulz gratuated “with distiction” in Physics at the University of Kiel (Germany) in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg/Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (Germany) in the field of Geosciences in 1998. His Ph.D. thesis was “On the role of the land surface representation and the numerical coupling to the atmosphere for the simulated climate of the global ECHAM4 model”. Shortly afterwards, in 1999, he got his first permanent position at the Danish Meteorological Service (Denmark) in the topic of Regional Climate Modeling. In 2001, he moved to the German Meteorological Service (DWD), where he was responsible for COSMO-EU, the DWD forecast model on the European domain. During this period, he improved the formulations of the turbulent and convective gusts, the sea ice, the phenology, the bare soil evaporation, and the surface (skin) temperature. Since 2023, he is also researcher at CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change) – REgional Modeling and geo-Hydrological Impacts (REMHI) division. The goals of his scientific activities are: Focus on further developing the ICON model, in particular with respect to urban processes, and setting up the model for high-resolution convection-permitting applications for weather and climate over an Italian domain. He advises colleagues at CMCC about ICON, how to set up the model, and how to analyse the simulation results, with particular focus on the general context of land surface, and especially urban, processes.