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CURRICULUM VITAE of Sonia I. Seneviratne
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Seneviratne
Sonia, Isabelle
June 5, 1974
Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss / Sri Lankan
IAC-ETH, CHN N11, ETH Zurich
Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: + 41 44 632 80 76
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/sonia
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/groups/seneviratne
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
04/07 –
Assistant Professor (tenure-track; “Land-Climate Interactions”)
Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
01/05 – 03/07
Senior Research Scientist / Oberassistentin
Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
10/03 – 12/04
Visiting Research Associate
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA
01/03 – 09/03
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
07/99 – 12/02
Research Assistant and PhD Student
Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
10/98 – 05/99
Visiting Research Scientist
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Hydrodynamics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA
10/96 – 04/97
Intern in Development Aid and Environmental Protection
IUCN (World Conservation Union) & PROBONA (Proyecto Bosques Nativos Andinos),
Ecuador
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1999-2002:
PhD in Atmospheric and Climate Science
Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
PhD Thesis: “Terrestrial Water Storage: A Critical Variable for Mid-latitude Climate
and Climate Change”
1995-1999:
MSc in Environmental Sciences (Major: Atmospheric physics)
ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Sciences
MSc Thesis / Diploma thesis: “Summer Dryness in a Warmer Climate: A Regional
Climate Study” (performed at Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Hydrodynamics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA)
1992-1995:
BSc in Biology (“Pré-licence”)
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
1989-1992
Baccalauréat Vaudois de Type X (Majors: Mathematics, Physics and Latin)
Maturité Fédérale de Type B (Majors: Latin and English)
Gymnase cantonal de Chamblandes, Pully (VD), Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS, published or in press
(*led by group member; +led by co-advised PhD student)
*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Statistical analyses of land-atmosphere feedbacks and their
possible pitfalls. J. Climate, in press.
*Jaeger, E.B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Impact of soil moisture-atmosphere coupling on European
climate extremes and trends in a regional climate model. Climate Dynamics, in press.
*Teuling, A.J., R. Stöckli, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Bivariate color maps for climate research. Int. J.
Climatology, in press.
*Mueller, B., M. Hirschi, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: New diagnostic estimates of variations in
terrestrial water storage based on ERA-Interim data. Hydrological Processes, in press.
+Mahecha, M.D., M. Reichstein, M. Jung, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Zaehle, C. Beer, M.C. Brakhekke, N.
Carvalhais, H. Lange, G. Le Maire, and E. Moors, 2010: Comparing observations and process-based
simulations of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges on multiple time scales. J. Geophys. Res. –
Biogeosciences, in press.
Seneviratne, S.I., T. Corti, E.L. Davin, M. Hirschi, I. Lehner, and A.J. Teuling, 2010: Soil moistureclimate interactions in a changing climate: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, in press,
doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.02.004. (Invited review).
Koster, R.D., Mahanama, S., Yamada, T.J., Balsamo, G., Boisserie, M., Dirmeyer, P., Doblas-Reyes,
F., Gordon, C.T., Guo, Z., Jeong J.H., Lawrence D., Li, Z., L. Luo, S. Malyshev, W. Merryfield, S.I.
Seneviratne, T. Stanelle, B. van den Hurk, F. Vitart, and E.F. Wood, 2010. The contribution of land
initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: First results from the GLACE-2 Project. Geophys. Res. Lett.,
37, L02402, doi:10.1029/2009GL041677.
*Hirschi, M., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Co-variability of spring and autumn precipitation over France.
Climate Dynamics, published online, doi: 10.1007/s00382-009-0734-1.
Piao, S., L. Yin, X. Wang, P. Ciais, S. Peng, Z. Shen, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Summer soil
moisture regulated by precipitation frequency in China. Environ. Res. Lett., 4, 044012,
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044012.
*Corti, T., V. Muccione, P. Köllner-Heck, D. Bresch, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Simulating past
droughts and associated building damages in France. HESS, 13, 1739-1747.
*Jaeger, E.B., R. Stöckli, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Analysis of planetary boundary layer fluxes and
land-atmosphere coupling in the Regional Climate Model CLM. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 114,
D17106.
Pitman, A.J., N. de Noblet-Ducoudré, F.T. Cruz, E. L. Davin, G.B. Bonan, V. Brovkin, M. Claussen, C.
Delire, V. Gayler, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, P.J. Lawrence, M.K. van der Molen, C. Müller, C.H. Reick, S.I.
Seneviratne, B. J. Strengers, A. Voldoire, 2009: Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover
change: first results from the LUCID intercomparison study. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L14814,
doi:10.1029/2009GL039076.
*Teuling, A.J., R. Uijlenhoet, B. van den Hurk, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Parameter sensitivity in
LSMs: An analysis using stochastic soil moisture models and ELDAS soil parameters. J.
Hydrometeorology, 10 (3), 751-763, doi:10.1175/2008JHM1033.1.
*Teuling, A.J., M. Hirschi, A. Ohmura, M. Wild, M. Reichstein, P. Ciais, N. Buchmann, C. Ammann, L.
Montagnani, A.D. Richardson, G. Wohlfahrt, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: A regional perspective on
trends in continental evaporation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L02404, doi:10.1029/2008GL036584
*Jaeger, E.B., I. Anders, D. Lüthi, B. Rockel, C. Schär, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2008: Analysis of ERA40driven CLM simulations for Europe. Meteor. Zeit., 17 (4), 349-367. (CLM special issue)
*Roesch, A., E.B. Jaeger, D. Lüthi, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2008: The analysis of CLM model biases in
relation to intra-ensemble model variability. Meteor. Zeit., 17 (4), 369-382. (CLM special issue).
Seneviratne, S.I., and R. Stöckli, 2008: The role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability in
Europe. In: Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 years, Brönnimann et al. (eds.),
Springer Verlag. (Book chapter)
*Teuling, A.J., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2008: Contrasting spectral changes limit albedo impact on landatmosphere coupling during the 2003 European heat wave. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03401,
doi:10.1029/2007GL032778.
Troch, P.A., M. Durcik, S.I. Seneviratne, M. Hirschi, A.J. Teuling, R. Hurkmans, and S. Hasan, 2007:
New datasets to estimate terrestrial water storage change. EOS T. Am. Geophys. Un., 88(45), 469-470.
+Hirschi, M., S.I. Seneviratne, S. Hagemann, and C. Schär, 2007: Analysis of seasonal terrestrial water
storage variations in regional climate simulations over Europe. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D22109,
doi:10.1029/2006JD008338.
+Fischer E., S.I. Seneviratne, P.L. Vidale, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär, 2007: Soil moisture - atmosphere
interactions during the 2003 European summer heatwave. J. Climate, 20, 5081-5099.
Jacob, D., L. Barring, O.B. Christensen, J.H. Christensen, S. Hagemann, M. Hirschi, E. Kjellström, G.
Lenderink, B. Rockel, C. Schär, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Somot, A. van Ulden, B. van den Hurk, 2007: An
inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: Design of the experiments and model
performance. Clim. Change, 81 (1), 31-52.
+Fischer E., S.I. Seneviratne, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär, 2007: The contribution of land-atmosphere
coupling to recent European summer heatwaves. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L06707,
doi:10.1029/2006GL029068.
Seneviratne, S.I., D. Lüthi, M. Litschi, and C. Schär, 2006: Land-atmosphere coupling and climate
change in Europe. Nature, 443, 205-209.
Seneviratne, S.I., R.D. Koster, Z. Guo, P.A. Dirmeyer, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, D.
Mocko, K.W. Oleson, and D. Verseghy, 2006: Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of
Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) data. J. Hydrometeorology, 7, 1090-1112.
+Hirschi, M., P. Viterbo, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2006: Basin-scale water-balance estimates of terrestrial
water storage from ECMWF operational forecast analysis data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L21401,
doi:10.1029/2006GL027659.
Teuling, A.J., S.I. Seneviratne, C. Williams, and P.A. Troch, 2006: Observed timescales of evapotranspiration response to soil moisture. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L023403, doi:10.1029/2006GL028178.
+Hirschi, M., S.I. Seneviratne and C. Schär, 2006: Seasonal variations in terrestrial water storage for
major mid-latitude river basins. J. Hydrometeorology, 7 (1), 39–60.
Syed, T.H., J.S. Famiglietti, J. Chen, M. Rodell, S.I. Seneviratne, P. Viterbo, and C.R. Wilson, 2005:
Total basin discharge for the Amazon and Mississippi River basins from GRACE and a landatmosphere water balance. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (L24404), doi:10.1029/2005GL024851.
Andersen, O.B., S.I. Seneviratne, J. Hinderer, and P. Viterbo, 2005: GRACE-derived terrestrial water
storage depletion associated with the 2003 European heat wave. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (L18405),
doi:10.1029/2005GL023574.
Rodell, M., J.S. Famiglietti, J. Chen, S.I. Seneviratne, P. Viterbo, S. Holl, and C.R. Wilson, 2004: Basin
scale estimates of evapotranspiration using GRACE and other observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31
(L20504), doi:10.1029/2004GL020873.
Seneviratne, S.I., P. Viterbo, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär, 2004: Inferring changes in terrestrial water storage
using ERA-40 reanalysis data: The Mississippi River basin. J. Climate, 17 (11), 2039-2057.
Seneviratne, S.I., 2003: Terrestrial water storage: A critical variable for mid-latitude climate and climate
change. PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, 155 pp.
Vidale, P.L., D. Lüthi, C. Frei, S.I. Seneviratne, and C. Schär, 2003: Predictability and uncertainty in a
regional climate model. JGR-Atmospheres, 108 (D18), 4586, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002810
Seneviratne, S.I., J.S. Pal, E.A.B. Eltahir, and C. Schär, 2002: Summer dryness in a warmer climate: A
process study with a regional climate model. Climate Dynamics, 20, 69-85
PUBLICATIONS, submitted
(*led by group member; +led by co-advised PhD student)
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*Davin, E.L., R. Stöckli, E.B. Jaeger, S. Levis, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: COSMO-CLM : A new
version of the COSMO-CLM model coupled to the Community Land Model. Submitted to Climate
Dynamics.
Rietkerk, M., V. Brovkin, P.M. van Bodegom, M. Claussen, S.C. Dekker, H.A. Dijkstra, S.V. Goryachkin,
P. Kabat, E.H. van Nes, A-M. Neutel, S.E. Nicholson, C. Nobre, V. Petoukhov, A. Provenzale, M.
Scheffer, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate.
Submitted to Biogeosciences.
*Teuling, A.J., I. Lehner, J. Kirchner, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Catchments as simple dynamic
systems: experience from a Swiss pre-alpine catchment. Submitted to Wat. Resour. Res.
Seneviratne, S.I., I. Lehner, J. Gurtz, H. Lang, U. Moser, A.J. Teuling, D. Grebner, L. Menzel, K.
Schroff, and T. Vitvar, 2010: The Rietholzbach catchment site: A 32-year hydroclimatological data set
from a Swiss pre-alpine watershed. Submitted to Water Resources Research.
*Lorenz, R., E.B. Jaeger, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Persistence of heat waves and its link to soil
moisture memory. Submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett., revised.
*Hendricks Franssen, H.J., R. Stöckli, I. Lehner, E. Rotenberg, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Energy
balance closure of eddy-covariance data: the role of atmospheric stability and wind velocity. Submitted
to Agr. For. Met., revised.
PRESENTATIONS AT INSTITUTIONS AND CONFERENCES
Invited or solicited presentations
March 3, 2010, Langen (Germany), COSMO/CLM Seminar (Keynote presentation)
January 20, 2010, Bonn (Germany), Center for Development Research (ZEF), Water lecture series
(Seminar)
October 13, 2009, Rostock (Germany), GEWEX/GRP meeting
September 2, 2009, Innsbruck (Austria), Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian Physical Society, Swiss
Physical Society, and Austrian Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Plenary presentation)
July 14, 2009, Wallingford (UK), GEWEX International Symposium “Global Land-surface Evaporation
and Climate“, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Keynote presentation)
June 25, 2009, Freiburg i. Breisgau (Germany), Zentrum für Wasserforschung und Institut für
Hydrologie, University of Freiburg i. Breisgau (Seminar)
May 20, 2009, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, EC-Earth Land Workshop
May 18, 2009, Bern (Switzerland), University of Bern, Seminar Climate and Environmental Physics
(Seminar)
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March 10, 2009, Lisbon (Portugal), 3 meeting of the International Soil Moisture Working Group
February 11, 2009, Asilomar/Monterey (USA), Fluxnet modeling workshop
January 29-30, 2009, Grenoble (France), ERCA (European Research Course on Atmospheres) (2
Lectures)
November 16, 2008, Hyeres (France), Conference Marie Curie-iLEAPS - Feedbacks-Land-Climate
Dynamics - Key Gaps (Keynote Lecture)
November 13, 2008, Salzau (Germany), Workshop "Großskalige hydrologische Modellierung" (Keynote
presentation)
October 16, 2008, Jeju (South Corea), GEWEX/GRP meeting
October 2, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, CCES ClimPol Kick-off meeting
September 24, 2008, Frascatti (Italy), ESA/ESRIN meeting on global albedo products
June 26, 2008, DeBilt (Netherlands), LoCo/WATCH workshop, KNMI
April 15, 2008, Vienna (Austria), General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union
April 10, 2008, Wageningen (Netherlands), IPL workshop on “Critical transitions at multiple scales in
coupled biosphere-atmosphere systems”
March 31, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, Women Faculty Meeting
March 17, 2008, Winchester (UK), QUEST Annual Science Meeting
February 5, 2008, Budapest (Hungary), HMS CLAVIER-CECILIA Workshop
January 31, 2008, Jena (Germany), MPI for Biogeochemistry (Colloquium Seminar)
January 10, 2008, Melbourne (Australia), CAHMDA-III International Workshop (Keynote presentation)
December 13, 2007, Hamburg (Germany), MPI for Meteorology (Seminar)
December 6, 2007, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich (Introduction Lecture).
November 26, 2007, Kastanienbaum (Switzerland), EAWAG Kastanienbaum seminars (Seminar)
October 29, 2007, Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL, ISTE seminar series (Seminar)
October 23, 2007, Wageningen (The Netherlands), Wageningen University (Hydrology Mini-Symposium)
October 5, 2007, Manno (Switzerland), CSCS User day
September 26, 2007, Grindelwald (Switzerland), NCCR Summer School 2007 “Land Surface –
Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Climate” (Lecture)
June 20, 2007, Paris (France), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Heatwave and Drought
Meeting
June 14, 2007, Kalithea (Greece), CECILIA 2
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Working Meeting
May 29, 2007, Toulouse (France), GEWEX Land-Flux Meeting
February 18, 2007, Ispra (Italy), Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU Commission (Seminar)
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January 31, 2007, Semmering (Austria), CECILIA 1 Working Meeting
January 18, 2007, Gif-sur-Yvette (France), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement
(LSCE) (Seminar)
rd
November 22, 2006, Lund (Sweden), ENSEMBLES 3 General Assembly
November 20, 2006, Bern (Switzerland), University of Bern, Pflanzenphysiologisches Kolloquium
(Colloquium in Plant Physiology) (Seminar)
November 6, 2006, Frankfurt (Germany), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Seminar on Atmosphere
and Climate Dynamics (Seminar)
October 5, 2006, Paris (France), SwissRe Événement “Changement Climatique: Tempêtes en Europe”
(Seminar)
September 7, 2006, Zurich (Switzerland), NCCR Press-workshop
August 28, 2006, Grindelwald (Switzerland), NCCR Summer School 2006 “Adaptation and Mitigation:
Responses to Climate Change” (Lecture)
June 27, 2006, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, Seminar Series - Climate physics and diagnostics
(Seminar)
June 12 & 13, 2006, Bucharest (Romania), CECILIA Kick-off meeting
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June 1, 2006, Miramare, Trieste (Italy), 3 ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate
Models (Lecture)
March 26, 2006, Riederalp (Switzerland), ENSEMBLES Workshop on Extreme Climatic Events and
Impacts
January 18, 2006, Strasbourg (France), École Doctorale STUE, Université Louis Pasteur (Lecture)
November 25, 2005, Gurten (Switzerland), NCCR-Climate Science Meeting
September 30, 2005, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH / NCCR Workshop on Climate Change Scenarios
June 9, 2005, Strasbourg (France), École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Université Louis
Pasteur (Seminar)
Mai 17, 2005, Bern (Switzerland), NCCR Climate, Schlussveranstaltung Phase I. Kursaal
Apr. 29, 2005, Vienna (Austria), General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union
Sep. 20, 2004, Montreal (Canada), Ouranos Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to
Climate Change (Seminar)
July 15, 2004, Princeton, New Jersey (USA), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Seminar)
May 24, 2004, Cambridge, Massachussetts (USA), Ralph M. Parsons’ Laboratory for Water Resources
and Hydrodynamics, MIT (Seminar)
February 5, 2004, Greenbelt, Maryland (USA), GMAO Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(Seminar
June 2, 2003, Miramare, Trieste (Italy), ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate
Models (Lecture)
Other oral presentations
September 14, 2009, Karlsruhe (Germany), COSMO-CLM general assembly
August 26, 2009, Melbourne (Australia), Joint ILEAPS/GEWEX conference
August 23, 2009, Melbourne (Australia), LandFlux workshop
November 18, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich Seminar for Hydrology
March 6, 2008, Langen (Germany), CLM assembly
February 26, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland), Rietholzbach workshop
November 29, 2007, Baden (Switzerland), “Baden workshop” of the SwissFluxnet community
November 20, 2007, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, Seminar for Hydrology
November 4, 2007, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, 20 Jahre Umwelnaturwissenschaften an der ETH
Zürich (Forschende im Gespräch)
July 10, 2007, Perugia (Italy), XXIV Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
April 15-20, 2007, Vienna (Austria), General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union
January 25, 2007, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany), CLM meeting on soil model and pre-processor
December 15, 2006, San Francisco (USA), AGU Fall meeting
November 21, 2006, Zurich (Switzerland), ETH Zurich, Hydrology Seminar
October 4, 2006, Zurich (Switzerland), Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Meteorologie:
July 26, 2006, Gwatt (Switzerland), Workshop on climate variability and extremes during the past 100
years
April 2-7, 2006, Vienna (Austria), General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union
March 9, 2006, Langen (Germany), CLM-community meeting
Jan. 30, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), 86th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
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Jan. 23, 2006, Boulder, Colorado (USA), 1 ILEAPS Science Conference
June 28, 2005, Costa Mesa, California (USA), 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global
Energy and Water Cycle (GEWEX)
Aug. 11, 2005, Beijing (China), Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and
Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
Aug. 3, 2005, Beijing (China), Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and
Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
June 30, 2005, Costa Mesa, California (USA), 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global
Energy and Water Cycle (GEWEX)
Apr. 24-29, 2005, Vienna (Austria), European Geophysical Union
Oct. 25, 2004, Princeton, New Jersey (USA), CAHMDA II Workshop
May 17-21, 2004, Montreal (Canada), AGU Joint Assembly
Apr. 6-11, 2003, Nice (France), EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly
Feb. 11, 2003, Long Beach, California (USA), 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological
Sociey.
Oct. 2, 2002, Miramare, Trieste (Italy), 2nd ICTP Conference on Detection and Modeling of Regional
Climate Change
Jan. 13-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida (USA), 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
Jun. 14, 2001, Miramare, Trieste (Italy), Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Conference on Climate Variability and Land-Surface Processes.
Mar. 30, 2001, Nice (France), General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society
TEACHING
ETH Zurich
(present lectures)
Lecturer of Master-level class “Land-Climate Interactions”, Fall terms 2007-2009
Co-lecturer of MSc-level class ”Climatological and hydrological field work” (Coordinated by group member
Dr. I. Lehner), Spring terms 2009-2010
Co-lecturer and invited lectures in several classes, 2007-2010, (Hydrological processes and modeling
(MSc), Climate Systems (BSc), Colloquium in Atmospheric and Climate Science (MSc), Seminar in
Hydrology (MSc), Students Seminars (BSc/MSc), Introduction course to MSc in Atmosphere and Climate)
(past lectures)
Co-Lecturer of Master-level class “Land-Atmosphere-Climate Interactions” (70%), Winter term 2006/2007.
Co-Lecturer of the Undergraduate-level class “Klimatologie und Hydrologie II” (50%), Summer term 2005.
Other universities, workshops
Invited lecturer at ERCA training course, 29-30 January 2009, Grenoble, France
Invited lecturer at the NCCR summer school (Land Surface – Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing
Climate), 26-31 August 2007, Grindelwald, Switzerland
Invited lecturer at the NCCR summer school (Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change),
27 August -1 September 2006, Grindelwald, Switzerland
Invited lecturer at the ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, 29 May – 9
June 2006, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Miramare, Trieste, Italy
Invited lecturer at the “École doctorale STUE”, 18 – 20 January 2006, Université Louis Pasteur,
Strasbourg, France
Invited lecturer at the ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, 26 May – 6
June 2003, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Miramare, Trieste, Italy
ADVISING (PhD students)
Main advisor:
Ruth Lorenz (2009-), ETH Zurich
Heidi Mittelbach (2008-), ETH Zurich
Brigitte Müller (2008-), ETH Zurich
Paulo Oliveira (2008-), ETH Zurich
Eric Jaeger (2006-2009), ETH Zurich
Advisor, external PhD thesis
Miguel Mahecha (2007-2009), MPI-Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany (local advisor: M. Reichstein)
Co-advisor:
Erich Fischer (2005-2007), ETH Zurich (Advisor: C. Schär)
Martin Hirschi (2003-2006), ETH Zurich (Advisor: C. Schär)
PhD examination committees
Thomas Griesser, exam August 2008, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Advisor: S. Brönnimann)
Edouard Davin, exam April 2008, LSCE, Paris, France (Advisor: N. De Noblet-Ducoudré)
David Volken, exam April 2008, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Advisor: A. Ohmura)
Julien Boé, exam November 2007, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (Advisor: L. Terray)
Ryan (A.J.) Teuling, exam October 2007, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (Advisor: P. Troch)
GRANTS
NRP61 project DROUGHT-CH: 200 kCHF out of 990 kCHF total (2010-2012) [Lead PI]
EU-FP7 project CARBO-Extreme: 130 k€ (2009-2012)
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NCCR-Climate 3 phase (including SwissRE contribution): 110 kCHF (2009-2012)
SNF-project SwissSMEX: 260 kCHF (2008-2011) [Lead PI]
CCES-project MAIOLICA (including S-ENETH contribution): 270 kCHF (2008-2011)
NCCR-Climate (http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/): SwissRe funded activity, 200 kCHF (2007-2009)
EU-FP6 project CECILIA (http://www.cecilia-eu.org/WP4.htm): EU-FP6, 220 k€ (2006-2009)
NCCR-Climate Research Fellowship, 75.7 kCHF (2003-2004)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Committees
Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC SREX report (2009-2011; http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/extremes-sr/)
IPCC scoping meeting, Climate change and extreme events (2009)
Advisory Board, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich (2009-)
Executive Board, EU-FP7 project CARBO-Extreme (2009-2012)
ILEAPS SSC (2008-; http://www.ileaps.org/)
GEWEX GLASS Panel (2008-; http://www.gewex.org/glass.html)
GEWEX Radiation Panel (GRP, 2008-; http://www.gewex.org/leadersrad.htm)
Advisory Board, TERENO project (2008-; http://www.tereno.net)
CHy Hydrology Commission (2008-)
Scientific Steering Group and Work package coordinator (WP4), EU-FP6 project CECILIA (2006-2009)
Doctoral Committee, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich (2007-)
Reviews/Evaluations
Associate Editor, J. Hydrometeorology (2009-)
Panel reviewer for institution evaluation (AERES): LSCE, France (2009)
Peer reviewer for research programs:
National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), Program on Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics; National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA), Atmospheric Composition and Climate Program;
NORKLIM (Norwegian National Science Foundation); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(NWO); German Science Foundation (DFG); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF/FNS/SNSF)
Peer reviewer for scientific journals:
Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of
Climate, Climate Dynamics, Global Change Biology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of
Geophysical Research, Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Resources, International
Journal of Climatology, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Hydrology and Earth
System Sciences, Annales Geophysicae, Global and Planetary Change, Journal of Advances in
Modeling Earth Systems
Conference/Workshop organization
Convener and Co-convener at European Geosciences Union general assembly, 2006-2010 (Vienna,
Austria)
Convener at ILEAPS/GEWEX meeting, 2009 (Melbourne, Australia)
Co-Organizer of LandFlux meeting, 2009 (Melbourne, Australia)
Co-Convener at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics meeting, 2007 (Perugia, Italy)
MEMBERSHIPS
American Meteorological Society
American Geophysical Union
European Geosciences Union
Schweizer Gesellschaft für Meteorologie
LANGUAGES:
French (mother tongue), English, German, Spanish