# Sanam Vardag

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## Contact details

Heidelberg University \
Institute of Environmental Physics\
Im Neuenheimer Feld 229\
Room 330 \
69120 Heidelberg

Tel: 06221 - 546511\
Mail: [sanam.vardag@uni-heidelberg.de](mailto:sanam.vardag@uni-heidelberg.de)

Copyright Tobias Schwerdt / Universität Heidelberg, Kommunikation und Marketing

## Research interests

- Combining observations and models to understand the atmospheric composition
- Budgeting greenhouse gas emissions
- Simulating atmospheric transport on scales from urban over regional to global
- Designing Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE)
- Tayloring climate data for stakeholder and individual needs (Interdisciplinary Climate Action Science project)

- [Group homepage](https://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/de/forschung/atmosphaere/simulation-von-treibhausgasen-in-der-atmosphaere-vardag-gruppe/team)
- [Publications](https://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/en/node/427)

## Career

- 07/2024 – present: Senior Scientist (Akademische Oberrätin), Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 09/2020 – 07/2024: Senior Scientist (Akademische Rätin), Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 04/2017 - 08/2020: Executive manager of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University, Germany
- 01/2013 - 04/2017: Research Associate/ PostDoc, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 05/2016: PhD in Physics “Greenhouse gas measurments with a FTIR spectrometer” (final grade: **Summa cum laude**) from Heidelberg University, Germany
- 03/2011 - 09/2012: Master of Science, Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 08/2008 - 04/2009: Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (Erasmus semester)
- 09/2007 - 03/2011: Bachelor of Science, Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany

## Selected other activities and awards

- 02/25- today: Member of the scientific advisory board of the German meteorological service (DWD)
- 12/2024 - today: Member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Task Team on Networks for the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch
- 11/2021 Teaching award by the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
- 06/2021 - 06/2022: Member of the ICOS Science programme committee
- 09/2020 - 06/2024: Member of the Supervisory Board of Heidelberger Energie Genossenschaft
- 11/2017: Environmental Award of the Viktor and Sigrid Dulger Foundation for an outstanding scientific dissertation, Heidelberg, Germany
- 06/2007: Pierre de Coubertin Award, Usingen, Germany, Award for special commitment in honorary office combined with fair attitude in sports

- [News item about Appointment to Scientific Advisory Board of the German Meteorological Service](https://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/news/dr-sanam-vardag-appointed-as-a-member-of-the-scientific-advisory-board-of-the-german-metservice)
- [Scientific Advisory Board of the German Meteorological Service](https://www.dwd.de/DE/forschung/forschungsprogramme/wissenschaftlicherbeirat/mitglieder_des_wissenschaftlichen_beirates.html)

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