Dr. Henning Löwe

Research Interests

My research is devoted to the physical understanding of microstructural controls on snow physical properties (heat transfer, mechanics, electromagnetics, crystal growth) in the context of remote sensing, polar climatology and natural hazards. I mainly rely on statistical physics, numerical simulations, and the analysis of experimental data (field and lab), in particular from micro-computed tomography experiments. My main goal is the unification of microstructural characterizations of snow to develop models that can be parametrized by micro-scale experiments to predict macro-scale behavior of snow for diverse applications in cryospheric sciences.

Positions and Boards

• Head of Group Snow Physics, SLF Davos
• Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich
• Member of the WSL Research Commission
• Co-chair IACS Working group "MicroSnow"

Thesis Topics

There are always opportunities for MSc/BSc topics. Just send me an email.

Teaching

You want to know more about Snow Physics? Visit our lecture  "Snowcover: Physics and modeling" at ETH, Zurich. The lecture is held every spring semester.

Publications, CV

Can be found here. 

Academic Education

• Diploma Physics, University of Göttingen
• PhD Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen
• Postdoc, Snowcover and Micrometeorology, SLF, Davos