Sanam Vardag
Research interests
- Simulating atmospheric transport on scales from urban over regional to global
- Budgeting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
- Understanding biogenic processes
- Designing Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE)
- Interdisciplinary Climate Action Science
Career
- 09/2020 – present: Senior Scientist, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 04/2017 - 08/2020: Executive manager of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 01/2013 - 04/2017: Research Associate, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 05/2016: PhD in Physics “Greenhouse gas measurments with a FTIR spectrometer” (final grade: Summa cum laude) from University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 03/2011 - 09/2012: Master of Science, Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 08/2008 - 04/2009: Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (Erasmus semester)
- 09/2007 - 03/2011: Bachelor of Science, Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Selected other activities and awards
- 11/2021 Teaching award by the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
- 06/2021 - 06/2022: Member of the ICOS Science programme comittee
- 09/2020 - today: Member of the Supervisory Board of Heidelberger Energie Genossenschaft
- 11/2017: Environmental Award of the Viktor and Sigrid Dulger Foundation for an outstanding scientific dissertation, Heidelberg, Germany
- 09/2014-09/2019: Press spokesperson and active member of the Heidelberg university group Amnesty International
- 06/2007: Pierre de Coubertin Award, Usingen, Germany, Award for special commitment in honorary office combined with fair attitude in sports