Announcing the Atmosphere 2017 Travel Award for Young Investigators

With the goal of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of atmosphere sciences by early-career investigators, including postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, or equivalent, and assisting them in attending international conferences in 2017, last year the journal Atmosphere accepted nominations for the 2017 Travel Award for Young Investigators. Over 70 nominations were received and were evaluated by a panel of judges comprised of Atmosphere editorial board members.

We are excited to announce the two winners: Dr. Carolin Klinger and Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri. They will be supported with up to 800 Swiss Francs (CHF) each towards their travel expenses to attend international conferences in 2017.

Dr. Carolin Klinger

Dr. Carolin Klinger

Dr. Carolin Klinger is a Postdoctoral Researcher. She was recently granted a DFG-Research-Fellowship to spend a year at NOAA Earth System Laboratory, Chemical Science Division, Boulder, CO, where she is currently working.

Dr. Carolin Klinger received her PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich at the Faculty of Physics in December 2015, supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Mayer. During that time she developed fast methods for the calculation of 3D thermal heating rates in the atmosphere. The newly developed methods allow her to study the effects of 3D thermal radiative transfer on cloud development for the first time in a comprehensive and systematic way.

While the main focus of her studies during her PhD was on the dynamical impacts of 3D thermal radiation on cloud development, she is now investigating the effects on cloud microphysics at NOAA ESRL under the guidance of Dr. Graham Feingold.

Dr. Carolin Klinger has published her research results in several articles and presented her work at various international conferences. She was granted the LMU Excellent Travel Award in 2016 to attend the IRS Conference in Auckland, New Zealand and the above mentioned DFG Fellowship for her current research.

Dr. Carolin Klinger will use the “2017 Travel Award for Young Investigators” to attend the JpGU/AGU Joint Meeting in Chiba, Japan, where she is invited to give a talk.

Next to her scientific activities, Dr. Klinger enjoys various outdoor activities, such as running, cycling, hiking and skiing.

Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri

Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri

Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri is Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Salento, Italy. He received the Master’s degree cum laude in Environmental Science from University of Salento in April 2005, with a thesis on flow and pollutant dispersion in urban environment with application to Lecce city, and the PhD in Environmental Geophysics from University of Messina, Italy, in March 2009, with a thesis on Computational Fluid Dynamics and integral models applied to pollution dispersion in urban areas.

His research is in the field of micrometeorology and atmospheric circulation at local scale through experimental (field and laboratory) and modelling approaches. Specifically, his studies are focused on the study of flow and air pollution dispersion in the urban environment and the effects of morphology, wind direction and urban vegetation on city ventilation.

Since 2008 he has been visiting scientist at the University of Gävle (Sweden) carrying out wind tunnel experiments and modelling simulations of the effects of city morphology on the drag force with the aim of developing parametrizations of urban effects in mesoscale dispersion models. He is currently collaborating with other international institutes such as the École Centrale de Lyon (France), the Sun Yat-Sen University (China), the University of Leicester (UK) and the CIEMAT (Spain).

He took part in several regional, national and international projects, such as, among others, the European Project COST Action 732 (www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/essem/732), the European Territorial Cooperation Programme Greece-Italy CESAPO (Contribution of Emission Sources on the Air quality of the Port-cities in Greece and Italy, www.cesapo.upatras.gr), the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union project RESCUE (Reform of Education in Sustainability & Climate in Urban Environments, rescueproject.wordpress.com).

He is reviewer and member of Editorial Boards of several international scientific journals and author of scientific articles, proceedings and book chapters.

On behalf of the Atmosphere editorial board members and editorial staffs, we wish to congratulate the two outstanding young investigators for their accomplishments.