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Michael Lehning

michael.lehning@epfl.ch http://cryos.epfl.ch

EPFL Valais Wallis
EPFL ENAC IIE CRYOS
Route des Ronquos 86
1951 Sion

EPFL CEN
BAC 104 (Château de Bassenges)
Station 5
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Interaction Cryosphere - Atmosphere in particular Snow Processes Natural Hazards Warning and Forecasting Turbulence and Boundary Layer Flows over Alpine Terrain Mountain Hydrology and Permafrost Dynamics Renewable Energy (Wind and Solar) in the Alps and as Contribution to the Swiss Energy Change Agenda

Expertise

Interaction Cryosphere - Atmosphere in particular Snow Processes Natural Hazards Warning and Forecasting Turbulence and Boundary Layer Flows over Alpine Terrain Mountain Hydrology and Permafrost Dynamics Renewable Energy (Wind and Solar) in the Alps and as Contribution to the Swiss Energy Change Agenda

Awards

Bavarian scholarship for highly gifted students (1988 - 1992) Award for the best student paper presentation at a conference of the American Meteorological Society in Charlotte (1995), USA. Award for extraordinary performance in transfer of scientific knowledge to users, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (2001). Offer (Ruf) of a full professorship (chair: W3) in environmental physics at the University of Tübingen (2009).

Grants

2010: EU Interreg and Cantonal Funding for application oriented work in Alpine flood forecasting and climate change, P. I. 2009: Swiss National Science Foundation: Wind tunnel investigations of shear stress partitioning over plants, P. I. 2009: Swiss National Science Foundation: Field investigations of surface heterogeneity and land-surface exchange in mountains, P. I. 2008: ETH CCES grant «Swiss Experiment» Main Project – Project on new technology and interdisciplinary environmental observation systems, P. I. 2008: HYDROSYS: EU – Project on new technology and hydrological consequences of cryosphere degradation in the ALPS, P.I. 2007: SNF R'EQUIP Terrestrial Laser Scanning System, P.I. 2007: ETH CCES grant «EXTREMES» on spatial extreme value statistics, Co-P. I. 2006: ETH CCES grant «Swiss Experiment» Pre-Project, P. I. 2006: Swiss National Science Foundation: Wind tunnel investigation of snow ventilation, P. I. 2005: KTI: Development of high resolution forecasting models of road surface conditions for winter road maintenance, P. I. 2004: AWARE: EU – Project on water resources in Alpine catchments with a focus on snow cover processes, P. I. 2003: Swiss National Science Foundation: Small scale investigation of flow, snow drift and surface energy balance, P. I. 2002: Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology: Distributed Computing (GRID) for Natural Hazard Prediction, Co - P. I. 2000: Swiss National Science Foundation: REQUIP: A cold, two phase wind tunnel with natural snow particles, P. I. 1997: Swiss National Science Foundation: Boundary layer wind field and the associated snow transport over high alpine topography, P. I. 1992: Scholarship for foreign studies at UC Davis.

Professionals experiences

Head Research Group �Process Models� and �Snowcover and �Micrometeorology�

1999–2011

Snow and Landscape Research, SLF, Davos

Awards

Bavarian scholarship for highly gifted students

1988 -

1992

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Patricia Asemann, Francesca Carletti, Albin Manuel Cintas, Rainette Engbers, Jimmy Gasser, Tim Giger, Henrik Jentgens, Anja Mödl, Valentin Marcel Philippe, Brandon Van Schaik, Ueli Schilt, Elizaveta Sharaborova

Past EPFL PhD Students

Tristan Jonas Brauchli (2018), Anna Braun (2024), Daniela Brito Melo (2023), Francesco Comola (2017), Philip Crivelli (2018), Jérôme Dujardin (2021), Yael Frischholz (2026), Aurélien Gallice (2016), Franziska Gerber (2018), Christine Dorothea Groot Zwaaftink (2013), Thomas Grünewald (2014), Océane Françoise Madeleine Hames (2025), Michael Haugeneder (2024), Mahdi Jafari (2022), Fanny Kristianti (2024), Quirien Eibhilín Krol (2017), Bert Kruyt (2019), Adrien Michel (2021), Tatjana Milojevic (2024), Dylan Stewart Reynolds (2024), Sebastian Schlögl (2018), Varun Sharma (2018), Armin Sigmund (2023), Christian Sommer (2018), Walter Steinkogler (2015), David Wagner (2023), Benjamin Andreas Walter (2012), Nander Wever (2015), Sebastian Würzer (2018), Yasmine Zakari (2022)

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Françoise Faure (2008), Rebecca Maria Mott-Grünewald (2011)

Courses

Atmospheric physics and the climate system

ENV-203

The course provides an introduction to the physical and dynamical processes that govern the atmosphere at small and large scales. The basis is laid for an in depth understanding of our atmospheric environment and the climate system.

Physics and chemistry of the atmosphere

ENV-320

The course provides an introduction to the physical and chemical processes that govern the atmospheric dynamics at small and large scales. The basis is laid for an in depth understanding of our atmospheric environment and the climate system.

Physics and hydrology of snow

ENV-525

This course covers principles of snow physics, snow hydrology, snow-atmosphere interaction, and snow modeling. It transmits detailed understanding of physical processes within the snow and at its interfaces with the atmosphere and the ground, and presents field, laboratory, and modeling techniques.