Heini Wernli

Heini Wernli investigates the dynamics, climatology and predictability of extratropical weather systems, and transport processes in the atmosphere (of water, dust, and trace gases). To this end his research group combines numerical modeling, field experiments, and diagnostic techniques to achive a profound understanding of the role of diabatic processes for weather system dynamics.

Heini Wernli has been a Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science in the Department of Environmental Sciences since 2009.

He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1964.

Heini Wernli obtained a degree in physics from ETH Zurich in 1989.

In 1991 he completed a post-graduate degree at NADEL (ETH Zurich), which included an internship in Bamako in Mali.

In 1995 he completed a doctorate at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, where he went on to work as a postdoc and senior assistant.

From 2003 to 2009 he was a professor at the University of Mainz, Germany.