Dr. Matthias Zeeman

Biography

Matthias Zeeman is a senior scientist at the University of Freiburg since March 2022. He previously worked as scientist and post-doc at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2012-2021), Oregon State University, USA (2009-2012) and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland (2009). He studied ecosystem physiology (Dr. sc., 2008) at ETH Zurich and Environmental Sciences/Hydrology (MSc, 2003) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Research

Matthias' role as Data Scientist builds on his experience in developing new methods for observing land-atmosphere exchange, climatic interactions and atmospheric boundary layer dynamics in complex environments, including urban and mountainous landscape. 

Current Research Projects

•  urbisphere (ERC Synergy Grant)

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Feigel G, Plein M, Zeeman M, Metzger S, Matzarakis A, Schindler D, Christen A, 2025: High spatio-temporal and continuous monitoring of outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas: a generic and modular sensor network and outreach platform. Sustainable Cities and Society, 119, 105991.
• Zeeman M, Christen A, Grimmond S, Fenner D, Morrison W, Feigel G, Sulzer M, Chrysoulakis N, 2024: Modular approach to near-time data management for multi-city atmospheric environmental observation campaigns. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 13, 393–424.
• Fenner D, Christen A, Grimmond CSB, Meier F, Morrison W, Zeeman M, Barlow J, Birkmann J, Blunn L, Chrysoulakis N, Clements M, Glazer R, Hertwig D, Kotthaus S, König K, Looschelders D, Mitraka Z, Poursanidis D, Tsirantonakis D, Bechtel B, Benjamin K, Beyrich F, Briegel F, Feigel G, Gertsen C, Iqbal N, Kittner J, Lean H, Liu Y, Luo Z, McGrory M, Metzger S, Paskin M, Ravan M, Ruhtz T, Saunders B, Scherer D, Smith ST, Stretton M, Trachte K, Van Hove M, 2024: urbisphere -Berlin campaign: Investigating multi-scale urban impacts on the atmospheric boundary layer, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (10), E1929–E1961.
• A comprehensive list can be found on Google Scholar.

Data

• A list can be found on the Zenodo community page for urbisphere.