Short Biography

Dr Martin Widmann is a climate scientist. His current main research area is regional climate change, in particular the development and validation of statistical downscaling methods. He also studies past climates; the main activity in this field is the development of data assimilation methods to combine climate simulations with empirical knowledge from proxy data.

Dipl. Phys., University of Freiburg, 1992
Ph.D., Institute for Atmospheric Science, ETH Zuerich, 1996
Postdoc, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 1996-1999
Scientist, Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, 1999-2006
Lecturer, GEES, University of Birmingham, 2006 - 2011
Senior Lecturer, GEES, University of Birmingham, 2011-present