Prof. Helmut Mayer

Prof. Dr. Helmut Mayer is currently a retired professor at the Chair of Environmental Meteorology, University of Freiburg (Germany), which emerged from the Meteorological Institute at this University in 2015. He studied meteorology at the University of Munich (Germany) from 1966 to 1971, obtained his PhD degree at the Faculty of Physics, University of Karlsruhe (Germany), in 1974 and was habilitated in Forest Meteorology and Climatology at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Munich, in 1985. He worked as a research fellow from 1971 to 1974 at the Karlsruhe Meteorological Institute and from 1974 to 1992 at the Munich Chair for Bioclimatology and Applied Meteorology. In 1992, he was appointed to the Chair of Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Freiburg, which included the position of the director of the Meteorological Institute at this University. His major research interests are in the fields of urban environmental and forest meteorology.