Prof. Dr. Daniel Farinotti

Prof. Dr.  Daniel Farinotti

Prof. Dr. Daniel Farinotti

Deputy head of Lab. Hydraulics,Hydrology,Glaciology

ETH Zürich

Professur für Glaziologie

HIA D 56.2

Hönggerbergring 26

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

Daniel Farinotti's research focuses on the evolution of glaciers and the implications for water resources.

His research includes the estimation of glacier ice thickness from surface characteristics, the long-term modelling of glacier mass budgets, the estimation of the runoff contributions from glacierized catchments, as well as the implications for water resource management in high-mountain environments.

Amongst his major scientific contributions are the development of a method to estimate the ice thickness distribution of individual glaciers (Farinotti et al., 2009call_made), an estimate for the ice volume of all glaciers on Earth (Farinotti et al., 2019acall_made), the reconstruction of decadal-scale glacier changes in the mountains of Central Asia (Farinotti et al., 2015call_made), or the assessment of the potential for presently glacierized areas to store water and produce hydropower (Farinotti et al., 2019bcall_made).

For information on ongoing projects, refer to this site.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 EDUCATION

  • 2009 - 2011: Postgraduate Course in Applied Statistics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2008 - 2010: PhD Thesis at VAW, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Title: Simple methods for inferring glacier ice-thickness and snow-accumulation distribution
  • 2001 - 2007: Master Studies in Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1997 - 2001: High School, Locarno, Switzerland

Honours

Year Distinction
2017 Nature Research citation as Outstanding Peer Reviewer in 2017
2013 Editors Citation for Excellence in Refereeing 2013; Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface

Additional information

X/Twitter: @VAW_glaciologycall_made

List of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zlnoh2MAAAAJcall_made

Website of the research group: https://vaw.ethz.ch/en/research/glaciology.html

Course Catalogue

Spring Semester 2024

Number Unit
651-4162-00L Field Course Glaciology
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