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Markus Stoffel (born April 28, 1974 in Visp) is a Swiss environmental scientist and full professor of Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene at the University of Geneva.

Career
Markus Stoffel graduated in Geography at the University of Fribourg in 1999 with a diploma thesis dedicated to the challenges of climate change for spatial planning in the Vispa valleys. His thesis was part of a major synthesis report for the National Research Program (NRP) 31 Climate Change and Natural Disasters of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and was published by vdf Hochschulverlag at ETH Zurich.

Markus Stoffel defended his habilitation thesis at the University of Bern and was hired as a senior lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Geneva from 2006 onward. In 2017, he was appointed Full Professor of Climate Change Impacts and Climate Risks in the Anthropocene and has since been working at the Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement, the Département F.-A. Forel and the Département des Sciences de la Terre at the University of Geneva.

Markus Stoffel is also the founder and director of dendrolab.ch - The Swiss Tree-Ring Lab where he and his team study climatic, ecological and geomorphic processes with growth rings from trees and perennial shrubs.

Research and scientific activity
The research of Markus Stoffel and his group focuses on the impacts and risks of climate change, with the goal of understanding, documenting, and quantifying processes and drivers of change. The group observes, documents, and analyzes environmental and climate change at both local and hemispheric scales, covering daily to seasonal, decadal, centennial, and millennial time scales.

The C-CIA team's scientific activities focus on the effects of climate change on hydrogeomorphic and gravitational processes in mountains and at high latitudes, as well as on the dendroecology and wood anatomy of trees and shrubs. Ongoing research projects address the effects of climate change on periglacial mass movements, the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate (temperature, precipitation), the evolution of climate and peatlands in the Holocene, and the effects of climate and global change on biodiversity. The studies are carried out in advance in the Alps, the Himalayas, Central Asia and the Andes.

Markus Stoffel is a member of the scientific advisory board of Interpraevent and in the committee of the Natural Hazards Experts Switzerland. He also chairs the Research Commission of the Swiss National Park since 2020.

Awards
Markus Stoffel's work has received several awards. His first scientific article received the CHGEOL Award in 2005, and for his dissertation he received the prize for the best work in experimental science from the University of Fribourg in 2006.

In 2010, the Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca awarded him an honorary professorship (Professor honoris causa) for his work in the field of dendrogeomorphology.

In 2015, the American Association of Geographers (AAG) awarded him the Denali Recent Achievement Award for excellence in research on climate impacts on mass movements at AAG’s Chicago meeting, and in 2016 he received the José Boninsegna Frontiers in Dendrochronology Award for significant contributions to cutting-edge science in dendrochronology from the International Tree-Ring Society during its conference in Mendoza.

Publications (excerpt)

 * Madrigal-González et al., 2020. Climate reverses directionality in the richness-abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes. Nature Communications 11, 5635.
 * Ballesteros-Cánovas et al., 2018. Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 115, 3410–3415.
 * Stoffel M, Corona C, 2018. Future winters glimpsed in the Alps. Nature Geoscience 11, 458–460.
 * Stoffel et al., 2015. Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years. Nature Geoscience 8: 784–788.
 * Gobiet et al., 2014. 21st century climate change in the European Alps – A review. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1138–1151.
 * Stoffel M, Corona C, 2014. Dendroecological dating of geomorphic disturbance in trees. Tree-Ring Research 70, 3–20.
 * Bolch et al., 2012. The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers. Science 336: 310–314.

Web links
Markus Stoffel on Google Scholar