Invited and solicited presentations (selected)

2019

external pageHerrenhausen Conference "Extreme events - Building climate resilient societies", Hannover, Germany, October 9, 2019, (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageHeidelberg Laureate Forum (Hot Topic "Climate Crisis"), Heidelberg, Germany, September 24, 2019 (Invited speaker)

external pageSwiss Embassy in Paris (Déjeuner-Débat "Les enjeux d'un réchauffement global à 1.5°C"), Paris, France, September 5, 2019 (Invited speaker, presentation about IPCC SR15 report)

external pageMétéo-France, Public event "Meeting with IPCC experts", Toulouse, France, August 29, 2019 (Invited speaker)

external pageUniversity of Lausanne, ISTE & IDYST Seminar Serie, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 20, 2019 (Invited seminar)

Training meeting of Chemistry High School Teachers of Canton of Zurich, Kantonschule Im Lee, Winterthur, Switzerland, April 2, 2019 (Invited speaker, Scientific presentation about IPCC SR15 report)

external pageScenarios Forum (Co-sponsored by IPCC and World Climate Research Programme), Denver, USA, March 12, 2019 (Invited plenary speaker) (presentation)

General Assembly of "Gletscherinitiative", Murten, Switzerland, January 26, 2019 (Invited speaker, Scientific presentation about IPCC SR15 report)

City of Zurich, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz, Internal information event, January 14, 2019 (Invited speaker, Scientific presentation about IPCC SR15 report)

2018

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, Session on external page"Land management in the Earth System: Measurements and models", Washington DC, USA, December 14, 2018 (Invited speaker)

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, Session on external page"Forest carbon and water dynamics under global environmental change", Washington DC, USA, December 12, 2018 (Invited speaker)

external pageIrish Parliament (Oireachtas), Testimony to Joint committee on climate, November 21, 2018 (Invited testimony)

external pageCarnegie Science Global Ecology Seminar, Stanford (USA), November 6, 2018 (Invited seminar)

external pageHarvard Climate Seminar, Boston (USA), October 31, 2018 (Invited seminar)

external pageGeneral Assembly of the European Meteorological Society, Budapest (Hungary), September 4, 2018 (Invited keynote)

external pageGordon Research Conference on Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere, Les Diablerets (Switzerland), June 12, 2018 (Invited keynote)

external pagePrinceton University, Department of Geosciences Lecture Series, Princeton NJ (USA), March 13, 2018 (Invited seminar)

2017

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, Session "Advances in understanding land-atmosphere interactions in a changing environment", New Orleans (USA), December 14, 2017 (Invited speaker)

external page5th International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR5), ECMWF Copernicus Climate Change Service / World Climate Research Programme, Rome (Italy), October 14, 2017 (Keynote speaker)

external pageSatellite Geodesy for Climate Studies, Bonn (Germany), September 20, 2017 (Keynote speaker)

external page5th ILEAPS Science Conference, Oxford (UK), September 12, 2017 (Invited plenary)

external pagePolicy Briefing at European Parliament, H2020 CRESCENDO project "Realising the Paris Agreement - Pathways and benefits of limiting global warming to 1.5°C", Brussels (Belgium/EU), February 28, 2017 (Keynote speaker)

external pageIPCC Scoping meeting on Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, Dublin (Ireland), February 13, 2017 (Keynote speaker)

2016

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 16, 2016, Session "Atmospheric circulation and hydrological cycle under a changing climate" (Invited speaker)

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 12, 2016, Union Session "Observing Earth's water from space" (Invited speaker)

external page1.5 degree conference, Oxford University, Oxford (UK), September 21, 2016 (Invited speaker)

external pageIPCC Scoping meeting for Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C, Geneva (Switzerland), August 15, 2016 (Keynote speaker)

external pageMPI for Meteorology, KlimaCampus Colloquium, Hamburg (Germany), July 14, 2016 (Invited seminar)

external pageUNESCO, 12th Kovacs Colloquium, Paris (France), June 15, 2016 (Invited speaker)

external pageEcole Polytechnique, Coriolis Seminar, Paris (France), June 14, 2016 (Invited speaker)

external pageWorkshop on the role of atmospheric circulation in regional climate change, Reading (UK), April 14, 2016 (Invited speaker)

external pageDLR Conference on climate change, Cologne (Germany), April 7, 2016 (Invited speaker)

external pageAustin International Conference on Soil Modeling, Austin (USA), March 30, 2016 (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) CMUG (Climate Modeling User Group) meeting, University of Munich, Munich (Germany), March 14, 2016 (Keynote speaker)

external pageInternational Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG) meeting, Boulder (USA), February 1, 2016 (Solicited speaker)

external pageLondon School of Economics and Political Science / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London (UK), January 13, 2016 (Invited seminar)

2015

external pageFall school "Statistical and mathematical tools for the study of climate extremes", Cargese (France), November 9-13, 2015 (Invited speaker)

external pageECMWF Annual Seminar, Reading, September 1-4, 2015 (Invited seminar)

external pageInternational Scientific Conference "Our Common Future Under Climate Change", Paris (France), July 7-10, 2015 (Invited speaker and Invited convener)

external pageAlpine Summer School on Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Valsavarenche (Italy), June 25, 2015 (Invited speaker)

external pageScor Foundation Seminar on Climate Risks, Paris (France), June 9-10, 2015 (Invited speaker)

external pageIPCC Expert Meeting on Climate Change, Food, and Agriculture, Dublin (Ireland), May 27-29, 2015 (Invited speaker)

external pageEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), April 14, 2015, EGU-AGU Great Debate on Global Freshwater Use - The thirsty 10 billion: Are we managing? (Panellist)

external page7. Berner Wassertag, Bern (Switzerland), March 5, 2015 (Invited speaker)

external pageInternational Detection and Attribution Group meeting, Boulder, Colorado (USA), January 22, 2015 (Solicited speaker)

2014

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 18, 2014, Session "The Attribution of Extreme Weather Events and Their Impacts to External Drivers of Climate Change" (Invited speaker)

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 15, 2014, Session "Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions" (Invited speaker)

external pageUniversity of Saskatchewan, Distinguished lecture series on "Breakthroughs in water security research", Saskatoon (Canada), November 19, 2014 (Invited lecture)

external pageSchweizerischer Nationalfonds: NFP 61 Abschlusstagung / external pageFonds National Suisse: Présentation finale PNR 61, Bern (Switzerland), November 4, 2014 (Keynote speaker)

external pageWCRP/EUMETSAT Climate Symposium, Darmstadt (Germany), October 16, 2014, Session "Prediction and attribution of extremes" (Keynote speaker)

external pageISSI workshop "Remote sensing and water resources", Bern (Switzerland), October 6, 2014 (Invited speaker)

external pageISSI forum on "Continuity of microwave observations in L-Band for operational and climate applications", Bern (Switzerland), September 30, 2014 (Invited speaker)

external pageWorld Economic Forum: Annual meeting of the new champions (ETH IdeasLab), Tianjin (China), September 11, 2014 (Invited speaker)

external pageWCRP/IPCC post-AR5 workshop, Bern (Switzerland), September 8, 2014 (Invited speaker)

external pageThe World Weather Open Science Conference (WWOSC), Montréal (Canada), August 16, 2014, Theme 3 "Interactions between sub-systems" (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Meteorology Colloquium Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (Germany), May 27, 2014 (Invited seminar)

ETH seminar series "Die Erde im Visier" (FocusTerra), Zurich (Switzerland), February 5, 2014 (Invited seminar)

2013

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 13, 2013, Session "Environmental impacts of urbanisation" (Invited speaker)

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 9, 2013, Session "Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions" (Invited speaker)

external pageARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Annual Workshop, Lorne (Australia), November 10-13, 2013 (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageMedia workshop on background to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Bern (Switzerland), August 29, 2013 (Invited speaker)

external pageDavos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly DACA-13, Davos (Switzerland), July 11, 2013 (Invited speaker, Session "Extreme events under changing climate")

external page4th WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, Exeter (UK), April 19, 2013 (Invited speaker)

external pageOpen Science Conference "Climate Extremes and Biogeochemical Cycles", Seefeld (Austria), April 2-5, 2013 (Invited keynote speaker)

external page10th Swiss GCOS roundtable, Zurich (Switzerland), January 31, 2013 (Invited speaker)

2012

external pageWorkshop on Attribution of Climate and Weather Extremes: Assessing, Anticipating and Communicating Climate Risks, Oxford (UK), September 12, 2012 (Invited speaker)

external pageECMWF annual seminar (Seasonal prediction), Reading (UK), September 5, 2012 (Invited speaker)

external pageWegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz (Austria), June 22, 2012 (Invited seminar)

external page5th International Workshop on Catchment Hydrological Modelling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-V), ITC University of Twente (Netherlands), July 11, 2012 (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageIPCC SREX regional outreach event, Dakar (Senegal), June 18, 2012 (Invited speaker)

external pageEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), April 27, 2012, Session “Climate extremes, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles” (Solicited speaker)

external pageEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), April 24, 2012, Session "Large-scale hydrology” (Solicited speaker)

external pageSwiss Global Change Day, Bern (Switzerland), April 4, 2012 (Invited speaker)

external pageGeneva Environment Network, IPCC SREX outreach event, Geneva (Switzerland), March 30, 2012 (Invited speaker)

external pageInternational symposium on climate impacts on low flow and droughts, Vienna (Austria), March 1, 2012 (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageClimate and Pollution Agency of Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, IPCC SREX outreach conference, Oslo (Norway), January 24, 2012 (Invited speaker)

external pageOxford University School of Geography and the Environment “Big event”, Oxford (UK), January 12, 2012 (Invited keynote speaker)

2011

external pageAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), December 7, 2011, Session "Effects of water limitations on water and carbon cycling of terrestrial ecosystems" (Invited speaker)

external pageWorld Climate Research Program (WCRP) Open Science Conference (OSC), Denver (USA), October 24, 2011, Session "Detecting, Understanding and Predicting Extreme Climate Events" (Invited speaker)

external pageNCCR climate summer school, Grindelwald (Switzerland), September 4, 2011 (Keynote lecture)

World Climate Research program (WCRP) workshop on drought predictability and prediction in changing climate, Barcelona (Spain), March 2, 2011 (Invited speaker)

external pageAmerican Meteorological Society (AMS), 91st Annual Meeting, Seattle (USA), January 27, 2011, Session "Regional climate modeling to improve climate variability and change projections at the local scale” (Invited speaker)

external pageAmerican Meteorological Society (AMS), 91st Annual Meeting, Seattle (USA), January 25, 2011, Session “Progress in estimating land surface evaporation” (Invited speaker)

2010

external pageCommittee for Science, Education, and Culture of Swiss Council of State (Swiss Parliament), Presentation within exhibition "Die Nationalen Forschungsschwerpunkte – eine Schweizer Erfolgsgeschichte", Bern (Switzerland), November 23, 2010 (Invited speaker)

2nd Symposium on “Hydrology delivers Earth System Science to Society”, Tokyo (Japan), June 22, 2010 (Invited speaker)

NCCR Climate / ScNat Workshop "Weather and Climate Extremes During the Past 100 years", Diessenhofen (Switzerland), June 9, 2010 (Invited speaker)

external pageCOSMO/external pageCLM Seminar, Langen (Germany), March 3, 2010 (Keynote presentation)

external pageWater Lecture Series of the United Nations University (UNU) Bonn, the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Global Water System Project (GWSP), Bonn (Germany), January 20, 2010 (Invited speaker)

2009

external pageJoint Annual Meeting of the Austrian Physical Society, Swiss Physical Society, and Austrian Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Innsbruck (Austria), September 2, 2009 (Invited plenary presentation)

external pageGEWEX International Symposium “Global Land-surface Evaporation and Climate“, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford (UK), July 14, 2009 (Invited presentation)

University of Freiburg i. Breisgau, Zentrum für Wasserforschung und Institut für Hydrologie, Freiburg i. Breisgau (Germany), June 25, 2009 (Invited seminar)

University of Bern, Seminar Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern (Switzerland), May 18, 2009 (Invited seminar)

FLUXNET Asilomar modeling workshop, Asilomar/Monterrey (USA), February 11, 2009 (Invited keynote presentation)

European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA), Grenoble (France), January 29-30, 2009 (2 Invited lectures)

2008

Conference Marie Curie-iLEAPS - Feedbacks-Land-Climate Dynamics - Key Gaps, Hyères (France), November 16, 2008 (Invited keynote speaker)

Workshop "Großskalige hydrologische Modellierung", Salzau (Germany), November 13, 2008 (Invited keynote speaker)

external pageLoCo / WATCH workshop, KNMI, De Bilt (Netherlands), June 26, 2008 (Invited speaker)

external pageEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), April 15, 2008, Session "Interactions of land cover and climate" (Solicited speaker)

IPL workshop on “Critical transitions at multiple scales in coupled biosphere-atmosphere systems”, Wageningen (Netherlands), April 10, 2008 (Invited speaker)

QUEST Annual Science Meeting, Winchester (UK), March 17, 2008 (Invited speaker)

MPI-Biogeochemistry, Jena (Germany), January 31, 2008 (Invited seminar)

CAHMDA-III International workshop, Melbourne (Australia), January 10, 2008 (Invited keynote speaker)

2007

MPI-Meteorology, Hamburg (Germany), December 13, 2007 (Invited seminar)

EAWAG Kastanienbaum seminars, Kastanienbaum (Switzerland), November 26, 2007 (Invited seminar)

EPFL ISTE seminar series, Lausanne (Switzerland), October 29, 2007 (Invited seminar)

external pageNCCR Climate Summer School, Grindelwald (Switzerland), September 26, 2007 (Keynote lecture)

Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU Commission, Ispra (Italy), February 18, 2007 (Invited seminar)

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette (France), January 18, 2007 (Invited seminar)

2003-2006

University of Bern, Pflanzenphysiologisches Kolloquium, Bern (Switzerland), November 20, 2006 (Invited seminar)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Seminar on Atmosphere and Climate Dynamics, Frankfurt (Germany), November 6, 2006 (Invited seminar)

SwissRe Événement “Changement Climatique: Tempêtes en Europe”, Paris (France), October 5, 2006 (Invited seminar)

external pageNCCR Climate Summer School, Grindelwald (Switzerland), August 28, 2006 (Keynote lecture)

ETH Zurich Seminar series "Climate physics and diagnostics", Zurich (Switzerland), June 27, 2006 (Invited seminar)

3rd ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, Miramare / Trieste (Italy), June 1, 2006 (Invited lecture)

Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, École Doctorale STUE, Strasbourg (France), January 18, 2006 (Invited lecture)

Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg (France), June 9, 2005 (Invited seminar)

external pageEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), April 29, 2005, Session "Estimation of soil moisture at the regional and global scale" (Solicited speaker)

Ouranos Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change, Montreal (Canada), September 20, 2004 (Invited seminar)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton / New Jersey (USA), July 15, 2004 (Invited seminar)

Ralph M. Parsons’ Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics, MIT, Cambridge / MA (USA), May 24, 2004 (Invited seminar)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), GMAO Seminar, Greenbelt / MD (USA), February 5, 2004 (Invited seminar)

ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, Miramare / Trieste (Italy), June 2, 2003 (Invited lecture)