Florian is a glaciologist in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University. For his PhD project, he studies calving glaciers in Greenland, focusing on lake-terminating glaciers and their response to the climate crisis. He combines satellite and UAV remote sensing, numerical modelling, and field methods to investigate the role of calving glaciers for the future development of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Florian has a background in physical geography (University of Vienna) and holds a master’s degree in ‘Polar Landscapes and Quaternary Climate’ from Stockholm University, during which he focused on glacier dynamics and innovative research instruments. Polar and high mountain research is his passion, and he feels at home in the cold and harsh environments. Besides being a passionate mountaineer, he gained field experience in a scientific context on several occasions. He worked at the Tarfala Research Station conducting traditional mass balance measurements, performed UAV surveys of glaciers in northern Sweden and Iceland, participated in fieldwork in Svalbard, and assisted with erosion measurements in the high alpine environments of the Austrian Alps.