Ulrike Lohmann

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Ulrike Lohmann (born 1966 in Berlin ) is a climate researcher . She is Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Lohmann comes from Kiel as the daughter of a teacher and an SPD politician. She did a volunteer year in an SOS Children's Village in Nigeria . This was followed by studies in ethnology and geography. Inspired by environmental reports on climate change, she studied meteorology in Mainz and Hamburg from 1988 to 1993. She did her doctorate in 1996 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. She initially worked as assistant professor and associate professor for atmospheric sciences at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Since 2004 she has been a full professor of atmospheric physics at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate at ETH Zurich.

She lives on Lake Zurich . Her passions are endurance sports and rowing.

Act

Lohmann deals with the interplay between global warming , aerosols and cloud formation . She summarized her findings as follows: “We assume that there are fewer deep clouds in a warmer climate, but more high ones. That would mean that the bottom line is that the clouds have a warming effect. "

She is also concerned with the possibility of geoengineering by thinning cirrus clouds. However, she assesses such interventions critically: "As things stand at the moment, the cirrus cloud thinning should only be seen as a thought experiment that helps to understand the formation of the ice clouds."

She is one of the lead authors of the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In 2019, Lohmann was one of the signatories of a statement on the school protests for climate protection to draw attention to the climate crisis . She emphasizes the importance of the solidarity of climate researchers with the global climate strike movement. She once said: "We know enough to be able to make a political statement."

Publications (selection)

  • U. Lohmann, J. Feichter: Global indirect aerosol effects: a review. In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Volume 5, No. 3, 2005, pp. 715-737.
  • U. Lohmann, B. Gasparini: A cirrus cloud climate dial? In: Science. Volume 357, No. 6348, 2017, pp. 248-249. doi: 10.1126 / science.aan3325
  • T. Storelvmo, T. Leirvik, U. Lohmann, PC Phillips, M. Wild: Disentangling greenhouse warming and aerosol cooling to reveal Earth's climate sensitivity. In :: Nature Geoscience. Volume 9, No. 4, 2016, p. 286. doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2670

Awards (excerpt)

  • 2018: Honorary doctorate from Stockholm University
  • 2018: Highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters
  • 2017: Highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters * 2016: Highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters
  • 2015: Highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters
  • 2014: Highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters (top 1% cited papers published 2002-2013)
  • 2014: Admission to the Geosciences Section as a member ( matriculation no. 7587 ) of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 2013: The Golden Tricycle from ETH Zurich for family-friendly leadership

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c d e f usys.ethz.ch
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j The Cloud Woman. In: The Bund. Der Bund, accessed on December 22, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  3. ↑ Lohmann & Gasparini, doi: 10.1126 / science.aan3325
  4. ↑ Climate manipulation With technology against global warming. In: Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 12,000 scientists stand behind the striking students. In: Sci Logs. Sci Logs, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Seven “Highly Cited Researchers 2018” from D-USYS. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2017. Accessed May 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Highly cited researchers at IAC. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Reuters / Carlos Barra: The world's most influential scientific minds 2015. Thomson Reuters, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Reuters / Tony Gentile: The world's most influential scientific minds 2014. Thomson Reuters, accessed on May 1, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ Employees suggest exemplary superiors. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lohmann, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climate researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin