Prof. Christoph Schär 

Prof. Christoph Schär, Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich

Christoph Schär has been full Professor in the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science since 2001, previously Assistant and Associate Professor since 1992. He is chairman of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science and is involved in climate and weather research.

Prof. Schär was born in 1958 and comes from Wil/SG, Switzerland. He studied physics at and obtained a Ph.D. from ETH Zürich. For his doctoral dissertation on the formation of low-pressure systems he received the ETH Zürich medal. He spent two and a half years in research at Yale University (New Haven, CT) and the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). He conducts research on atmospheric dynamics and processes, climate dynamics, and the water cycle. Specific research interests are: hydrological cycle in Europe and the Alpine region, climate variability and climate change, atmospheric flow past topography, numerical methods in atmospheric and climate models.

Christoph Schär works in several national and international committees, among them as chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, GB), as a co-author of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), as an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a as member of the SCSC/CSCS research council (Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, Manno).