OUR MENTORS
Our mentors are researchers or professors that are willing to help early career researcher in various research areas. This may include meeting students at conferences, workshop, seminars etc., answering to occasional emails and give general career guidance if needed.
All their information are in the database on the main APECS website.
FRANZISKA AEMISEGGER
I am fascinated by the cycling of water in the atmosphere. I use stable water isotope measurements and modelling to explore how different physical processes affect the dynamics of the atmospheric branch of Earth's hydrological cycle. At high latitudes, I am particularly interested in how the pathways of water from ocean evaporation over transport by strong winds, cloud formation, precipitation and deposition on the ice sheets are influenced by extratropical cyclones.
JULIA SCHMALE
With a background in atmospheric science, my main research interest is to better understand the radiative impacts and emission sources of aerosols in extreme environments. Climate impacts can result from direct aerosol radiation interaction, aerosol-cloud interactions or albedo reduction through deposited particles, while aerosol sources can be natural and anthropogenic. To study the relevant processes, I use different platforms (ships, aircraft, observatories). Two recent field studies were the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition and the Arctic Ocean 2018 Expedition. In 2019 the Greenland Circumnavigation and MOSAiC are on the agenda.
In addition to the above, my work has exposed me to questions of Arctic urbanization and sustainable development as well as science-policy interactions, topics that I enjoy collaborating on.
MARTIN SCHNEEBELI
My current work is focused on snow and firn. The work in the past years was focused on how to measure snow properties quantitatively and at higher spatial resolution, and from the field- to the micro-scale. To this goal, I am developing new instruments. Scientifically, I am interested in all physical and geological processes occurring in the snowpack, and in different environments. Recent expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic widened my experience in these fascinating environments.
CHARLES FIERZ
Current projects:
- How much snow is lost to sublimation?
- SNOWPACK
- Snowpack in Antarctica
- Measuring and modelling spatial variability of snowpack stability
- Feature Formation on the Snow Surface due to Interactions with the Atmospheric Surface Layer
- Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space (CLISP)
MATTHIAS HUSS
Current projects:
- SNF-Project: New monitoring techniques for understanding the response of very small glaciers to climate change (2012-present)
- SNF-project: Helicopter-borne GPR for mapping snow accumulation distribution (2011-present)
- FREEZWATER: Artificial glaciers in Armenia (2011-present)