Ulrike Lohmann

Ulrike Lohmann (born 1966 ) is a climate researcher and professor for atmospheric physics at the ETH Zurich. She is known for her research on aerosol particles in clouds.

Early life, education, and career Lohmann comes from Kiel as the daughter of a teacher and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She did a volunteer year in an SOS Children's Village in Nigeria, and then studied ethnology and geography. She received her doctorate in 1996 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. She initially worked as assistant professor and associate professor for atmospheric sciences at Dalhousie University. which she continued in her use of the ECHAM model. Her research also considers the global indirect aerosol effects and the connection to climate change. She also deals with the possibility of geoengineering by thinning cirrus clouds. In the 2017 Science article, she notes "for the time being, cirrus cloud thinning should be viewed as a thought experiment that is helping to understand cirrus cloud–formation mechanisms". and she shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to the IPCC reports.

Lohmann supports the young people striking to draw attention to climate change,

Selected publications

Awards Henry G. Houghton Award, American Meteorological Society (2007) The Golden Tricycle from ETH Zurich for family-friendly leadership (2013) Elected member, German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (2014) Peter Hobbs Memorial lecture, University of Washington (2016) Honorary doctorate from Stockholm University (2018) Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal, European Geosciences Union (2025)

Personal life She lives on Lake Zurich, and her passions are endurance sports and rowing.