Thomas Frölicher is a full Professor at the Climate and Environmental Physics Division of the University of Bern and the head of the ocean modelling group. He is interested in marine ecosystem-carbon-climate interactions with focus on ocean extreme events and their impacts on climate and on marine organisms and ecosystem services. He studied Environmental Sciences at ETH Zürich and graduated in Physics with summa cum laude at the University of Bern. He worked almost 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and 4 years as a senior researcher at ETH Zürich. He is the recipient of the 2019 Theodor Kocher Prize of the University of Bern. Thomas authored or co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. He currently co-leads the work package 8 (WP8) of the HEurope project TipESM (tipping points in the Earth system). He is also the principal investigator in the AtlantECO H2020 consortium on Atlantic Ocean.
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