Markus Stoffel#
| Membership Number: | 4708 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.unige.ch/climate |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Full Professor, Chair for Climate Impacts & Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva
- 2013 - 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva
- 2011 - 2016 Privatdozent (Lecturer with venia legendi), Faculty of Science, University of Bern
- 2009 - 2011 Senior Lecturer, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern
- 2009 - 2013 Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva
- 2006 - 2009 Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg
- 2000 Initiator and Director of the Swiss Tree-Ring Lab (http://www.dendrolab.ch
)
Fields of Scholarship
- Alpine meteorology and climatology
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Anthropocene, integrated disaster risk management
- Dendroecology
- Climate change impacts and risks
- Climate-cryosphere linkages and their impacts on integrated water resources management
- Climatic impacts of large, tropical volcanic eruptions on Common Era societies
Honours and Awards
- 2018 CHOICE Book Award for Outstanding Academic Title: International Encyclopedia of Geography for which M. Stoffel served as one of the editors
- 2016 Nomination for the 2017 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science for work on Perturbation of Systems in the Anthropocene, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, U.S.
- 2016 International Tree-Ring Society José Boninsegna Frontiers in Dendrochronology Award for significant contributions to cutting‐edge science in dendrochronology, AmeriDendro Meeting, Mendoza
- 2015 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Denali Recent Achievement Award for excellence in research on climate impacts on mass movements, AAG Meeting Chicago
- 2010 Distinguished Professor (Professor honoris causa) in Physical and Technical Geography, Facultatea de Geografie, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2006 Award for the best PhD thesis in Experimental Sciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg
- 2005 CHGEOL Award for the best application-oriented study conducted in the field of Geosciences, Swiss Geosciences Meeting 2005, Zurich
