Heinz Wanner

[2] After completing his doctorate on fog and cold air dynamics over the Swiss Plateau, he worked from 1981 to 1982 at the Department of Atmospheric Science of the Colorado State University in Fort Collins (USA) and as deputy operations director of the international Mountain Experiment ALPEX, which was part of the Global Atmospheric Research Programme (GARP).

[1] In 1988 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Bern and was co-director of the Swiss research project POLLUMET (Air POLLUtion and METeorology).

[1][2] Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been mainly involved in palaeoclimatology and was director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Climate Research from 2001 to 2007.

He collaborated with Hans Oeschger and Thomas Stocker, with colleagues at ETH Zurich and with European and American research groups.

[9] He is an honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and a PAGES (Past Global Changes) Fellow,[12] a member of the Leopoldina,[10] received the Medal of Honour from Masaryk University in Brno in 2005 and was awarded the honorary doctorate from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2009[13]