With January 1st, 2020 Martin Weissmann starts at the University of Vienna as a Professor of Theoretical Meteorology. He graduated Meteorologie in Innsbruck, afterwards Weissmann spent seven years at the German Aerospace Center. In the past nine years, Martin Weissmann was the leader of a junior research group sponsored by the German Weather Service at the LMU Munich (Link). His research focuses on numerical weather forecasting with a special focus on data assimilation and ensemble prediction.

With February 2nd, 2020 Andreas Stohl starts at the University of Vienna as a Professor of Allgemeine Meteorology. His research will concentrate on environmental topics, with a focus on atmospheric transport modeling, allowing further applications in a variety of fields. The aim is to investigate global atmospheric and regional humidity- and heat transport, atmospheric measurements of greenhouse gas emissions by "inversion" of transport, to study airborne pollutants and aerosols in the atmosphere, and measurements of micropollutants in ice cores as an archive of historical emissions and changes in atmospheric transport patterns. Close and interdisciplinary cooperation with working groups in Austria and international will certainly lead to further innovative applications of transport modeling.

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