Flavio Lehner

Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Flavio Lehner obtained a PhD in Climate Science from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 2013. After a brief engagement as Science Officer in the Technical Support Unit for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, he joined the Climate and Global Dynamics Lab at NCAR with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2014. Being awarded a NOAA postdoc fellowship, he continued on in NCAR’s Research Applications Lab. He then transitioned to a Project Scientist position at NCAR, leading and co-leading projects across NCAR labs.

For the past year Flavio has been working as a Senior Scientist at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, before joining Cornell as an Assistant Professor in fall of 2020.

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3142 Snee Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

flavio.lehner [at] cornell.edu

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The sun rising over mountains in Nevada.

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August 23, 2023

New modeling method helps to understand extreme heat waves

To prepare for extreme heat waves around the world, running climate-simulation models that include a new, efficient computing concept may save tens of thousands of lives.

Cornell Atkinson
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Climate Change

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July 18, 2022

Supercomputer simulates future of snow melt, water

Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more and more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere by later this century, according to a new study.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Climate Change
Environment

Flavio Lehner

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