Wernli, Heini
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Heini Wernli has been a Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science in the Department of Environmental Sciences since 2009. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1964. Heini Wernli obtained a degree in physics from ETH Zurich in 1989. In 1991 he completed a post-graduate degree at NADEL (ETH Zurich), which included an internship in Bamako in Mali. In 1995 he completed a doctorate at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, where he went on to work as a postdoc and senior assistant. From 2003 to 2009 he was a professor at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Research Interest
Heini Wernli researches the dynamics, climatology and predictability of weather systems in the mid-latitudes, and transport processes in the atmosphere (water, dust, trace gases).
Publications
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Meteorological influences on the incidence of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage - a single center study of 511 patients. Neidert MC, Sprenger M, Wernli H, Burkhardt JK, Krayenbühl N, Bozinov O, Regli L, Woernle CM. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 2;8(12):e81621. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081621. eCollection 2013.
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Marine Primary Productivity as a Potential Indirect Source of Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Atmospheric Deposition. Blazina T, Läderach A, Jones GD, Sodemann H, Wernli H, Kirchner JW, Winkel LH. Environ Sci Technol. 2017 Jan 3;51(1):108-118. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03063. Epub 2016 Dec 13.
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Balancing Europe's wind power output through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes. Grams CM, Beerli R, Pfenninger S, Staffell I, Wernli H. Nat Clim Chang. 2017 Aug;7(8):557-562. doi: 10.1038/nclimate3338. Epub 2017 Jul 17.
