New honorary professor at UoC

We congratulate Peter Düben on his “Honorary Professorship” at the University of Cologne (UoC)!

On May 8, 2024 Prof. Georg Bareth, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, presented the certificate at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology. Peter Düben has been working at ECMWF, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, since 2016, where he has been Head of the Earth System Modelling Department since 2022. In research topics related to the development of weather and climate simulations and machine learning in Earth system science, he successfully collaborates with the scientists of the UoC’s Meteorology Department and the CESOC. He has already held and continues to hold courses within CESOC and the Master’s program ‘Physics of the Earth Atmosphere’ at the UoC.

Peter Dueben gave an interesting overview of the topics on which he is working and continues to gives lectures.

Peter himself says: “I am delighted to accept this special title. The dual role as Head of the Department of Earth System Modeling at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and as Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne will help me to further strengthen the bridges between the two institutes, to link university research and research on operational weather models more closely, and to give new impetus to students with practice-oriented teaching. I am very much looking forward to working more closely with students and scientists at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and in particular at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology.”