Nicolas Gruber

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Gruber

Position

Deputy head of Dep. of Environmental Systems Science
Head of Kommission für gute wiss. Praxis

Relation

Full Professor

Contact Data

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Fax: +41 44 632 16 91
Tel. (Sec.): +41 44 632 07 64

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ORCID: 0000-0002-2085-2310

Address

ETH Zürich
Nicolas Gruber
I. f. Biogeochemie/Schadstoffdyn.
CHN  E 31.2
Universitätstrasse 16
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Other Addresses
ETH Zürich
Nicolas Gruber
Center f. Climate Systems Modeling
CHN  E 31.2
Universitätstrasse 16
8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Organisations Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
http://www.usys.ethz.ch/
Research Field

Dr. Gruber's research interests are the study of biogeochemical cycles on regional to global scales and on timescales from months to millennia, with a particular focus on the interaction of these cycles with Earth's climate system.

His goal is to better understand the physical, chemical and biological processes that control these cycles and to be able to make predictions for the future, especially with regard to the potential feedbacks between the global carbon cycle and a changing climate. His primary research tools are the interpretation and analysis of observational data coupled with the use of models ranging in complexity from simple box models to general circulation models.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Nicolas Gruber has been Full Professor of Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich since July 2006.

Dr. Gruber was born in Peru in 1968, and moved to Switzerland at the age of 6.

After his Matura in 1989, he was among the first students to enter the new Environmental Sciences degree program at ETH Zurich. As part of his undergraduate studies, he spent one year at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, where he worked with the late Charles D. Keeling, sparking his interests in the human perturbation of the global carbon cycle. After earning his diploma degree in 1993, Dr. Gruber went to the University of Bern for his Ph.D. studies, which he completed in 1997. He then worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. In 2000, he joined the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, first as an assistant professor, and from 2005 until 2007 as a tenured associate professor. In 2006, he was appointed as a full professor at ETH Zurich.

Dr. Gruber has written over 170 peer-reviewed publications, with more than 20 having appeared in Science, Nature, and the offsprings of Nature. 

Dr. Gruber, together with Jorge Sarmiento from Princeton University, is author of the textbook "Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics" that has become a standard text in the field. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to Marine Sciences, Dr. Gruber received the Rosenstiel Award from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami in 2004. In 2012 he was elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He is member of several international research boards, is member of the governing board of Climate-KIC, and serves as review editor for the Science Magazine. 

 

 

Honours
Additional Information

Dr. Gruber, together with Jorge Sarmiento from Princeton University, is author of the textbook "Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics" that has become a standard text in the field. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to Marine Sciences, Dr. Gruber received the Rosenstiel Award from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami in 2004. In 2012 he was elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Course Catalogue
151-0928-00L CO2 Capture and Storage and the Industry of Carbon-Based Resources
651-4095-01L Colloquium Atmosphere and Climate 1
651-4095-02L Colloquium Atmosphere and Climate 2
651-4095-03L Colloquium Atmosphere and Climate 3
701-1302-00L Term Paper 2: Seminar
701-1303-00L Term Paper 1: Writing
701-1317-00L Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate
743-0001-00L CAS ETH in Climate Innovation
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