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President of Commission “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics” (ACP) of sc.nat
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Lead author, Chapter 2 of the contribution of Working Group I to the 5th assessment report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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PI, co-PI, or member of several national and international projects (SNF, NCCR Climate, EU FP-7,
HORIZON2020, COST, ERAnet.RUS)
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Active in international initiatives “The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project” (20CR), “Atmospheric
Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE)”, “International Surface Temperature Initiative”
(ISTI)
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Leader, Work Package 2 of Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
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Member, Steering Group Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
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Editor/coordinator of Meteorologische Zeitschrift, since August 2006, Climate of the Past since 2012,
Physik in unserer Zeit since 2012, Editor of Geographica Bernensia since 2011.
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Head of conference board, international workshops “Weather and Climate Extremes During the Past
100 years”, Diessenhofen (Switzerland), 7-9 June 2010, “Variability of Global Atmospheric Circulation
During the Past 100 years”, Monte Verità (Switzerland), 15-20 June 2008, “Climate variability and
extremes during the past 100 years”, Gwatt (Switzerland), 24–26 July 2006, “Bicentenary of the Great
Tambora Eruption”, Bern (Switzerland), 7-10 April 2015
