Kilian Hermes Kilian is a PhD student at the University of Leeds and funded through the SENSE CDT. He holds a Master's degree in Meteorology from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he worked on impacts of Saharan dust outbreaks on weather forecast skill. Kilian's research interests are focused on atmospheric dust, weather forecasting, nowcasting, and applied machine learning. Paper/s Diffusion Models for Image-Based Nowcasting of Desert Dust for West Africa