Britta Schäfer

She holds a PhD from the University of Oslo, titled "Of ice crystals, clouds and climate. Measuring and modeling cold clouds in the Arctic". Her research focuses on cold and warm clouds, their effect on radiation and climate on both regional and global scales, and their interaction with aerosols. She mainly uses numerical weather prediction models like the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF), often together with observations (both remote sensing and in-situ), and has earlier worked intensively with lidar observations.

Britta has been a board member of the Norwegian Geophysical Society since 2022.

Background

• 2024-2025: Postdoctoral researcher and senior lecturer, University of Oslo
• 2019-2024: Ph.D., University of Oslo. Thesis: Of ice crystals, clouds and climate. Measuring and modeling cold clouds in the Arctic 
• 2016-2019: M.Sc. Physics, University of Rostock, Germany. Thesis written at the Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock.
• 2013-2016: B.Sc. Physics, University of Rostock and Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 2020-2022: Studies in church music, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo
• 2015-2019: B.Mus. classical music performance, Rostock University of Music and Drama (including one exchange semester at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo)