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Volker Wulfmeyer (born 8 October 1965) is Managing Director and Chair of Physics and Meteorology at University of Hohenheim.

Biography
Volker Wulfmeyer studied physics at the University of Göttingen, Germany, followed by a diploma thesis written at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany.

He obtained his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1995.

Between 1996 and 1999 he was Research Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, USA. In 1999 and 2000 he was head of the Lidar Research Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, USA.

He became Managing Director of the Institute of Physics and Meteorology of University of Hohenheim in 2001.

Fields of interest and awards
Scientific questions concerning land-atmosphere exchange processes and deep convection are in the focus of Prof. Wulfmeyer’s research. A further emphasis is mesoscale modelling and data assimilation. In 2011, Prof. Wulfmeyer was appointed as member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Prof. Wulfmeyer and his team were awarded a research grant within the first cycle of the The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science in 2016. In 2017, he was appointed as Lead Scientist with a Research Grant of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) for the Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE).