Fred Meier

Fred Meier received the Ph.D. degree in natural science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 2011. He is currently a Senior Scientist with the Chair of Climatology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He studied landscape planning in Berlin. His doctoral thesis dealt with thermal remote sensing of urban microclimates. Since 2016, he has been leading the climate laboratory with the Institute of Ecology, Technische Universität Berlin, which takes care of the operation and expansion of the Urban Climate Observatory, Berlin, Germany. His research interests include atmospheric observations in urban environments, micro-meteorology, the role of vegetation for urban climates and vice versa, the application of micro and mesoscale models for urban climate studies, and crowdsourcing of atmospheric data from citizen weather station including data quality assessment and spatio-temporal analysis.