Erich Fischer Senior scientist, lecturer ETH Zurich

Erich Fischer is a senior scientist and lecturer at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In 2007 he completed his PhD at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich. He then worked as a Postdoc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado and as a visiting scientist at the University of Reading, UK before moving back to ETH Zurich.

He is a lead author of the IPCC AR6 assessment report and is a co-lead of the Grand Challenge on Weather and Climate Extremes of the World Climate Research Program WCRP. In the last three years he has been listed as a Clarivate Web Of Science 1% most highly cited researchers and ranked among the top 200 on the Reuters list of the world’s top climate scientists. Erich Fischer acts as an associate editor of the Science magazine family journal Science Advances.

His research interests include understanding and quantifying changes in weather and climate extremes in a warming climate, climate model evaluation, detection and attribution of observed changes, changes in climate variability, quantifying and constraining uncertainties in global to regional model projections, heat stress in urban environments and the climate response to volcanic eruptions.