Frida Bender and Thorsten Mauritsen new Professors, Magnus Hieronymus new Associate Professor
Congratulations to Frida Bender, appointed Professor of Climate modeling, and Thorsten Mauritsen, appointed Professor of Climate science, at the Department of Meteorology (MISU) at Stockholm University, and to Magnus Hieronymus at SMHI, appointed Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography.
Frida Bender, Professor of Climate modeling
Frida Bender. Photo Erik Thor, Young Academy of Sweden.
Climate models are invaluable tools for understanding and projecting past, present and future climate change.
– My research concerns clouds as part of the climate system, and large scale effects of interactions between aerosols and clouds. Climate models are invaluable tools for understanding and projecting past, present and future climate change. My research contributes to making the models even better, not least when it comes to their representation of clouds, that are of great importance for the sensitivity of the climate to anthropogenic forcing.
The aim is to better predict the magnitude and nature of future climate change, including by delineating the Earth's climate sensitivity.
– I am doing research on large-scale and global climate with the aim of better predicting the magnitude and nature of future climate change. This includes delineating the Earth's climate sensitivity – a key measure of how much warmer it will get if you double the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere.
– I am also developing a future European satellite system that will measure the Earth's radiation balance directly from space for the first time. From the second half of the 2030s, if all goes well, the system will monitor humanity's efforts to keep the Earth's average temperature below two degrees. It will also as early as possible detect whether climate scientists' predictions are wrong.
Magnus Hieronymus, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Magnus Hieronymus. Photo: SMHI/Niclas Kindahl, Fotofabriken.
As a researcher, I like to tackle a wide range of different issues.
– In my research at SMHI, I focus on the role of the ocean in the climate system, in particular on sea level extremes and mean sea level changes. I also work with the development of climate models and climate services. I have worked at MISU on two occasions; as a PhD student 2010–2014 and as a postdoc 2017–2018. As a PhD student I worked on ocean thermodynamics and water mass transformation, as a postdoc mainly on variability in the large-scale circulation of the ocean and atmosphere.
