Two new professors at IAC
Claudia Mohr will start as a Full Professor of Aerosol Chemistry jointly between the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and IAC. Erich Fischer has been promoted to Adjoint Professor (Titularprofessor) at IAC.
Claudia Mohr (*1982) is currently Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. Early next year she will join the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and our institute as a joint Full Professor of Aerosol Chemistry. Claudia Mohr is an internationally recognised expert in the field of aerosol chemistry, covering the scientifically and socially topical themes of air quality, climate change and health. She specialises in the characterisation of the chemical composition of aerosol particles by means of advanced mass spectrometric techniques. Claudia Mohr has won multiple awards and has cultivated an extensive network. Her appointment will make an excellent contribution to strengthening the cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IAC) at ETH Zurich for research and teaching, especially in the area of experimental work and lab courses.
Erich Fischer (*1978), currently Senior Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Systems Science, has been promoted to Adjunct Professor (Titularprofessor) at ETH Zurich. Erich Fischer is an expert on weather and climate extremes and works on understanding physical processes, predicting changes in extreme events, uncertainty quantification, detection and attribution of human influence all the way to assessing impact-relevant metrics such as indicators for public health or simulating urban heat island effects that are relevant for national climate scenarios. He is a highly cited scientist, a lead author of the recent IPCC Working Group 1 report, and his work on record-shattering extremes and the human contribution to such events has received much attention in the media and public. At IAC he has coordinated the Master for Atmospheric and Climate Science for many years.