Bruno Messerli (17 September 1931, in Belp – 4 February 2019)[3] was a Swiss geographer and university professor who focused on high mountains and highland-lowland linkages.

[4] He was appointed Full Professor of Geomorphology in 1968 by the University of Bern,[5] where he taught and carried out research until his retirement in 1996.

[1] His post-doctoral Habilitation thesis concerned Quaternary glaciation of mountain ranges around the Mediterranean basin.

[1] From 1996 to 2001 he served as Co-Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s project on Past Global Changes (PAGES), founded by Messerli's friend and colleague at the University of Bern, Hans Oeschger.

[1] Messerli worked on the United Nations University's Himalayan Highland-Lowland Interactive Project together with Professor Jack D. Ives.