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Curriculum vitae

Personal information

Harald Sodemann
Dr. sc. ETH. Dipl. Geoök. B.Sc. (Hons)
born 1975 in Esslingen am Neckar (Germany)

Education and Qualification
Apr 2007 - ongoing PostDoc with Andreas Stohl at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Oslo
Oct 2008 - Oct 2009 Visiting PostDoc with Jess Adkins at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, USA
May 2006 - Mar 2007 PostDoc in the group of Dynamical Meteorology at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH), ETH Zürich
2003-2006 PhD student at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zürich. Supervision and co-examination: Huw C. Davies, Heini Wernli, Conny Schwierz, and Valerie Masson-Delmotte. Ph.D. Thesis title: "Tropospheric moisture transport: Lagrangian and Eulerian perspectives"
1996-2002 Studies of Geoecology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Specialisation in the field of Micrometeorology. Diploma Thesis title: "Evaluation of a parameterisation for turbulent fluxes of momentum and heat in stably stratified surface layers"
2000 Studies in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Honours Thesis title: "Relationships between the origin of air masses and carbon monoxide trace gas measurements at the Cape Point trace gas monitoring station"

Work experience
Oct-Dec 2002
Internship at the IOC/UNESCO, Paris, France.
Oct-Dec 2001
Internship at the Federal Environmental Institute, Berlin, Germany

Teaching experience
  • Guest lecture on modelling and simulation at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2007
  • Teaching assistant for the practicals in atmospheric physics and measurement networks, 2003-2005
  • Student seminar in scientific writing, 2002

Supervised work
  • Zubler, E., Juli 2006: Comparison of moisture uptake regions between the north and south side of the Alps, Semester Thesis, IACETH, ETH Zurich, 34 pp.
  • Blattmann-Singh, M., August 2005: Durchführung idealisierter Simulationen im regionalen Klimamodell CHRM mit einem Wasserdampftracer, Bachelor's Thesis, IACETH, ETH Zurich, 43 pp.
  • Bürzle, S., October 2004: Untersuchung des Saharastaubtransportes an die nordafrikanische Küste im Jahre 2000, Diploma Thesis, IACETH, ETH Zürich, 71 pp.

Awards

Medal of the ETH Zurich for Ph.D. Thesis, 2007
Poster prize at the 5th Swiss Global Change Day, Bern, 2004
1-year stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2000

Reviews

US National Science Foundation, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science,
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2),
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (5), EOS, Climate Dynamics (2),
Tellus B, Institute Polaire Paul-Emile Victor