Dr. Bernhard Vogel receives the European Aerosol Assembly Award 2023

Dr. Bernhard Vogel, scientist at IMK-TRO for more than 30 years and group leader for 25 years until 2021, has received the prestigious European Aerosol Assembly (EAA) Award 2023. The EAA Award is a recognition of the scientific life and outstanding performance of an individual whose career has been distinguished by a sustained commitment to excellence in endeavours of science, research, and leadership in the field of aerosol science and technology. It is awarded biennially, this time at the European Aerosol Conference in Malaga (Spain).

Bernhard Vogel is recognized as a world-leading scientist in the highly multidisciplinary problem of interactions of atmospheric aerosols and weather. Throughout his career, he focused on the development of the most advanced online-coupled meteorological and aerosol-chemistry models at the mesoscale. This resulted in the model systems COSMO-ART (until about 2015) and its successor ICON-ART (2015 onwards), where ART comprises all modules for Aerosols and Reactive Trace Gases, which are now an integral part of the ICON model and are jointly developed with the Department Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing of IMK (IMK-ASF) and the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC). Bernhard Vogel has founded and has been leading the international COSMO-ART and ICON-ART communities, in which 18 universities and research institutes from 8 countries participate for joint code development, user support, educational outreach and applications of ICON-ART to a wide field of aerosol-relevant processes. This and the supervision of 16 Ph.D. theses and 24 master/diploma theses document his leadership and dedication to the education of the next generation of researchers. Bernhard Vogel has always been keen to incorporate findings from basic research, for example from experimental work at IMK-AAF (Department of Atmospheric Aerosol Research), to improve the models. Important scientific contributions are among others the development of parameterizations of relevant aerosol processes at the mesoscale, such as mineral dust interactions with clouds, pollen emission and transport, and volcanic ash dispersion and radiative effects. As a highly successful knowledge transfer to society, these developments have been picked up and are further co-developed by Deutscher Wetterdienst (Germany’s National Meteorological Service) and MeteoSwiss (Switzerland’s Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology) for operational forecast applications.