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Short biography



SPARC SSG, Pune India 2010

Michaela I. Hegglin obtained her diploma in Environmental Sciences (Dipl. Natw. ETH) in 2000 and a doctoral degree (Dr. Sc. ETH) in 2004 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. During her Ph.D. she performed in-situ measurements of ozone and reactive nitrogens as part of the SPURT aircraft campaign, aimed at the study of transport processes in the tropopause region (working under the supervision of Thomas Peter and Johannes Staehelin). She then spent seven years as postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Toronto (working with Ted Shepherd and Dylan Jones). Her research at the University of Toronto focussed on the synergistic use of observations and models, in particular the validation of model processes in chemistry-climate models, and the use of newly available satellite observations from the Canadian ACE-FTS instrument to study the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere. In May 2012 she moved to the Meteorology Department at the University of Reading as a Senior Research Fellow in Atmospheric Chemistry, with promotion to Lecturer in Atmospheric Chemistry in May 2015, and to her current position of Associate Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry in May 2017. Her current research focuses on chemistry-climate interactions in the atmosphere and the Earth system more generally, the state of the stratospheric ozone layer and its impacts on air quality, UV-radiation, and human and ecosystem health.


Significant Responsibilities


  1. -Co-lead Chapter Modelling of the WMO/UNEP Assessment Report on the Unreported CFC-11 Emissions (from Sep 2019)

  2. -Principal Investigator ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initative (from May 2018)

  3. -Member Editorial Board Nature Scientific Reports (from 2017)

  4. -Co-lead author of chapter 4 'Upper tropospheric and stratospheric water vapor and ozone' of the SPARC Reanalyses Intercomparison Report (2016-2019)

  5. -Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of AerChemMIP (from Sep 2015)

  6. -Coordinating lead author (CLA) of the ‘Twenty Questions’ chapter of the 2010, 2014, and 2018 WMO/UNEP Ozone Assessment Reports

  7. -Co-chair of the IGAC/SPARC Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (2013-2019)

  8. -Co-lead of the SPARC Data Initiative (2009-2017)

  9. -Member of the PREMIER Mission Advisory Group (MAG) during Phase A of the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Explorer 7 satellite selection procedure (2009-2013)

  10. -Co-lead author of chapter 7 ‘The UTLS’ of the SPARC CCMVal Report (2007-2010)