Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler

• Role of water vapor and clouds in the climate system
• Radiative transfer modeling
• New sensor concepts for water vapor and cloud ice remote sensing
• Cloud ice microphysics
• Numerical methods
• Satellite climate data records

Since 2025:

Head, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of Hamburg

Since 2018:

Member of FORUM ESA Mission Advisory Group

2015-2025:

Director, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg

Since 2014:

Member of Metop-SG Microwave Imager and Ice Cloud Imager Science Advisory Group

Since September 2013:

Professor (W3) in Meteorology, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of Hamburg

September 2006 - August 2013:

Professor chair in Space Technology, Lulea University of Technology, Department of Space Science, Kiruna, Sweden

2005-2006:

"Privatdozent" (A13), University of Bremen

December 2004:

Habilitation. Thesis: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Composition for Climate Applications

2001-2004:

Assistant professor (C2)

2000-2001:

Senior working group leader (BAT Ia)

1998-2000:

Working group leader (BAT IIa)

1998:

Phd, University of Bremen. Thesis: Microwave Limb Sounding of the Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere

1994-1998:

PhD student, University of Bremen, Institute of Remote Sensing

1994:

Master, SUNY at Stony Brook. Thesis: A Study of Atmospheric Opacity near 275 GHz at very low Temperatures

1993-1994:

Graduate student, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dept. of Physics

1993:

Vordiplom, University of Tübingen

1990-1993:

Undergraduate student, University of Tübingen, Dept. of Physics