Appenzeller, Christof

Biography

Christof Appenzeller is Adjunct Professor since 2012 at the ETH Zürich, where he was a senior lecturer from 2002 to 2014. He is head of the unit "Analysis and Prediction" at the Federal office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss). The unit includes five divisions covering operational weather forecasting, aviation meteorology, numerical modelling and climatology. Prior to working at MeteoSwiss he was research associate at the department for Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA). He finished his Ph.D. in atmospheric dynamics at Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the ETH Zürich and his studies in Environmental Physics in the Department Natural Sciences at ETH Zürich. Christof Appenzeller is author or co-author of many scientific contributions in reviewed journals including Science and Nature and has been governmental representative in various commissions including the World Meteorological Organization, the EUMETNET Program and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recently he has been involved in establishing a global and national Framework for Climate Service and became Co-chair of the Centre for Climate System Modeling at ETH Zürich. He also worked on committees at the climate research / policy interface (e.g. ProClim).

Research Interest

Christof Appenzellers research interest is in analysis and prediction of the weather and climate system with a focus on interannual climate variability, climate change, weather and climate risk management. He has led numerous research projects, was member of the steering committee of the National Centre for Competence in Research Climate and coordinator of the CH2011 initiative that developed the current Swiss Climate Change Scenarios.