Dr. Julian Hofer
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 27177336
Mail: julian.hofer@tropos.de
Room: 215 (Building 23.1)
Function
PostDoc
Department
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Processes
Group
Ground-Based Remote Sensing
Research areas & research interest
- Aerosol remote sensing by lidar
- Central Asian dust
- Transport of atmospheric mineral dust
Current projects
- 2020: MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) Leg 4 onboard RV Polarstern
- 2020-2021: LOSTECCA (Lidar Observations of SpatioTEmporal Contrasts in Clouds and Aerosols) with NIWA Lauder New Zealand
Completed projects
- 2012/13: ParisFog at the École Polytechnique Palaiseau, France (with LAC PSI, Villigen)
- 2014-2016: CADEX (Central Asian Dust Experiment) together with the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan
- 2016-2018: Widefield Sky Scatterer Tomography by Lidar Anchor together with Technion Haifa
Measuring Systems (constructed and supervised)
- PollyXT multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar
- Polly1v2 Raman lidar
- OCEANET container onboard RV Polarstern
Curriculum vitae
Academic qualification
Time frame | Title | Affiliation, place |
2007-2014 | Student of Environmental Science with Major in Atmosphere and Climate | ETH Zurich |
2012-2013 | Internship at Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) | Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen |
2013 | Master thesis | ETH Zurich |
2014-2020 | PhD student | TROPOS, Leipzig |
Since 2020 | PostDoc | TROPOS, Leipzig |
Publications