Experts at the conference: Martin Beniston

Professor Martin Beniston started his academic career on 1973 at the University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, Great Britain, where he got the Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Sciences. Two years later he obtained the Master of Science degree in Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics at the University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, Great Britain. In 1978, he concluded his PhD study in Atmospheric Sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, CNRS, in Paris.

In 1997 he received the Habilitation in Climate Research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. Currently he teaches Climate Change and Climate Impact at the University of Geneva.

Lead Author and Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1992.
Former vice-chair of the IPCC WGII-C and member of the IPCC Bureau (Management Board) from 1992 to 1997. The IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Price.
Elected member of the Academia Europea.

Series editor of "Advances in Global Change Research" (Springer Publishers, Heidelberg and New York, ex Kluwer Academic Publishers); he is amongst founding members of "Regional Environmental Change" (Springer Publishers, Heidelberg and New York).

Initiator and organizer of the annual "Wengen Workshops on Global Change Research" since 1995. He is member of the Climate Sciences Section of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) and convenor of session on Climate Extremes from 2001.

He collaborates with the following organizations:
Swiss National Science Foundation
5th Framework Program of the European Union on Environment and Climate
German Ministry for Research (DEKLIM program)
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
The Norwegian Research Council
The Czech Academy of Sciences