Speakers

Dr.[SB2.1] Simone Bircher is a senior scientist with long experience in soil moisture observations, including in situ and passive microwave satellite data. She studied geography and environmental sciences at the University of Zurich and then completed her doctorate at the Danish Technical University. She then worked at the Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère in Toulouse, France, where she led a project funded by the European Space Agency. She then returned to Switzerland, where she has been working for MeteoSwiss ever since. Since 2023, she works for the Swiss National Drought Program where she is responsible for the establishment of a Swiss National Soil Moisture Network. She also coordinates the revision of the chapter on soil moisture in the Guide No. 8 of the World Meteorological Organisation.