Ulrike Lohmann | |
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Born | 1966[1] |
Alma mater | Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | ETH Zurich |
Thesis | Sensitivität des Modellklimas eines globalen Zirkulationsmodells der Atmosphäre gegenüber Änderungen der Wolkenmikrophysik (1996) |
Ulrike Lohmann is a climate researcher and professor for atmospheric physics at the ETH Zurich. She is known for her research on aerosol particles in clouds.
Lohmann comes from Kiel as the daughter of a teacher and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.[2] She did a volunteer year in an SOS Children's Village in Nigeria, and then studied ethnology and geography.[2] Inspired by environmental reports on climate change, she studied meteorology at the University of Mainz from 1988 to 1993.[2][3] She received her doctorate in 1996 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.[4] She initially worked as assistant professor and associate professor for atmospheric sciences at Dalhousie University.[3] She has been a full professor of atmospheric physics at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate at ETH Zurich since 2004.[3]
Lohmann's research centers on the interactions between global warming, aerosols, and cloud formation. Her early research modeled the influence of cirrus clouds on climate,[5] which she continued in her use of the ECHAM model.[6][7] Her research also considers the global indirect aerosol effects and the connection to climate change.[8] She also deals with the possibility of geoengineering by thinning cirrus clouds.[9] In the 2017 Science article, she notes "for the time being, cirrus cloud thinning should be viewed as a thought experiment that is helping to understand cirrus cloud–formation mechanisms".[9]
She is one of the lead authors on the chapters on Clouds and Aerosols in the fourth and fifth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),[10] and she shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to the IPCC reports.[11]
Lohmann supports the young people striking to draw attention to climate change,[2] and in 2019 she was one of the scientists signing on to a statement on the school protests for climate protection to draw attention to the climate crisis.[12]
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)She lives on Lake Zurich, and her passions are endurance sports and rowing.[2]