Franziska Glassmeier
| Department | Independent Research Groups |
| Group | Multiscale Cloud Physics, Lise Meitner Group |
| Position | Group Leader |
| phone | +49 40 41173 469 |
| franziska.glassmeier@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B119 |
Multiscale Cloud Physics Group - We are hiring
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About my research
Clouds not only puzzle the casual observer but remain one of the most elusive scientific challenges. They are a key obstacle to advances in our understanding of Earth’s climate and climate change. The processes that make clouds so hard to grasp range from the formation of cloud droplets on aerosol particles to the marvelous patterns that we can observe in cloud fields to their coupling with global dynamics. My research is broadly motivated by this complexity and approaches to capture it.
Curriculum vitae
I lead a permanent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology as part of the Max Planck Society's Lise Meitner Excellence Program and I am Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. I studied Physics at the University of Göttingen and earned my PhD from ETH Zurich in 2016, followed by positions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder and Wageningen University.
Teaching
In Spring 2026, I offer the lecture “Aerosol- und Wolkenphysik” (Aerosol and Cloud Physics).
Publications