Job opportunities

I always welcome applications from skilled and motived students for Master and Bachelor thesis.

Portrait by SNSF (german)

About my research    (german)

About marine heatwaves (English)

Science and sailing to collect environmental data during the Vendée Globe race (English)

Unprecedented ocean warming in summer 2023

The Adaptive Emission Reduction Approach

Compound events in the ocean

Download my CV here (updated January 26, 2021)

 

Education and academic positions

2024 -

Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

Full Professor 


2017 - 2024

Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

SNF Assistant Professor 


2016 - 2017

Environmental Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Senior Researcher

Group: Prof. Dr. Nicolas Gruber


2013 - 2016

Environmental Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Ambizione Fellow Swiss National Science Foundation

Host: Prof. Dr. Nicolas Gruber


2012 - 2013

AOS Program, Princeton University, USA

Nippon Foundation, Senior Nereus Fellow

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jorge Sarmiento


2011 - 2012

AOS Program, Princeton University, USA

Postdoctoral Research Associate, CMI fellow

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jorge Sarmiento


2010 - 2011

AOS Program, Princeton University, USA

SNSF Postdoctoral Research fellow

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jorge Sarmiento


2005 - 2009

Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland

PhD Student (passed with summa cum laude)

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fortunat Joos

Co-Referee: Prof. Dr. Thomas Stocker, Prof, Dr. Christoph Heinze


1999 - 2004

Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Diploma (Major: Physics, Atmosphere)


Grants and awards

2019

2017

Theodor Kocher Prize, University of Bern

Assistant Professorship, Swiss National Science Foundation


2014

CMI Best Paper Award for Postdoctoral Fellows, Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University


2013 - 2016

Ambizione fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation


2012

Travel grant by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research to attend the Open Science Conference 2012 in Portland, Oregon


2012

Travel grant by the World Climate Research Programme to attend the CMIP5 analysis workshop in Hawaii


2010 - 2011

Postdoctoral research fellowship for prospective researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation


2009

Publication contest winner: Best EU FP6 Integrated Project Carboocean related PhD publication