Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions

The Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions research group at SLF and ETH Zurich studies water and climate extremes in mountain regions under global change.

Its research focuses on three core areas:

1. Understanding processes governing multivariate hydro-climatic extreme events.
2. Assessing climate impacts on water and climate extremes in mountain regions with a particular focus on the Alps.
3. Improving predictions of extreme events by exploiting new datasets and the latest methodological advances in statistics, data science, and climate modeling.

The group is affiliated with the CERC research centre and operated in collaboration with the chair for Hydrology and Climate Impacts at ETH Zurich in the framework of a joint professorship by Manuela Brunner.

We are an engaged, open-minded, and innovative research group trying to make a difference by doing research relevant for society and decision makers. Our research topics and goals are summarised in this video and further outlined in the inaugural lecture of Manuela Brunner.

For student projects please check Open Theses Projects.

We are currently looking for a new PostDoc in compound climate/hydrologic extremes.