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CURRICULUM VITAE of Sonia I. Seneviratne Last name: First & m. names: Date of birth: Place of birth: Citizenships: 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) 2 *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) rd 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 nd 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) st 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 rd 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 st 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) rd 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