Dr. Dennis Niedermeier
Leibniz Institute for
Tropospheric Research
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 2717-7324
Mail: dennis.niedermeier@tropos.de
Room: 004 (Building 23.3)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-6235
Function
Scientist
Department
Teamleader
Fundamental Cloud Microphysics Team
Research fields and interests
- Cloud microphysics (cloud droplet formation, heterogeneous ice nucleation)
- Turbulence in clouds
- Cloud microphysics - turbulence interaction
Current projects (selection)
- ACTRIS
- ACTRIS-D: Development and upgrade of scientific equipment at LACIS-T
- TINIA: Influence of turbulence on ice crystal formation and diffusional growth by the example of stratiform mixed-phase clouds
Completed projects (selection)
- Eurochamp 2020
- ATMO-ACCESS: Conception and realisation of sustainable access to the atmospheric research facility LACIS-T
Measuring systems (supervision)
- LACIS-T: Turbulent Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator
Curriculum vitae
Scientific career
Since 12/2015 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
08/2016 – 07/2017 Feodor-Lynen Return-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-foundation, Bonn, Germany
05/2014 - 10/2015 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA (Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-foundation, Bonn, Germany)
07/2012 - 04/2014 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Scientific Education
06/2012 PhD in Meteorology from the University of Leipzig, Germany (summa cum laude)
07/2007 – 06/2012 PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Academic Education
03/2007 Diplom (M.Sc.) in Meteorology from the University of Leipzig, Germany
10/2001 – 03/2007 Study at the University of Leipzig, Germany
Publications
Frey, W., Schmalfuß, S., Stratmann, F., and Niedermeier, D. (2026): Measurements of water droplet size distributions in a turbulent wind tunnel, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 2305–2318, doi:10.5194/essd-18-2305-2026.
Chen, S., Krueger, S. K., Dziekan, P., Enokido, K., MacMillan, T., Richter, D., Schmalfuß, S., Shima, S., Yang, F., Anderson, J. C., Cantrell, W., Niedermeier, D., Shaw, R. A., and Stratmann, F. (2025): A model intercomparison study of aerosol‐cloud‐turbulence interactions in a cloud chamber: 1. Model results, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 17, e2024MS004562, doi:10.1029/2024MS004562.
Niedermeier, D., Hoffmann, R., Schmalfuss, S., Frey, W., Senf, F., Hellmuth, O., Pöhlker, M., and Stratmann, F. (2025): Particle deliquescence in a turbulent humidity field, Aerosol Res., 3, 219–230, doi:10.5194/ar-3-219-2025.
Shaw, R. A., Chen, S., Freer, M., Korolev, A., Krueger, S., Murakami, M., Niedermeier, D., Ovchinnikov, M., Schmalfuß, S., Tian, P., Yang, F., Yum, S. S., Zhu, Z., Cha, J. W., and Möhler, O. (2025): Scientific directions for cloud chamber research: Instrumentation, modeling, new chambers, and emerging chamber concepts, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 106(4), E770-E781, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0027.1.
Nowak, J. L., Grosz, R., Frey, W., Niedermeier, D., Mijas, J., Malinowski, S. P., Ort, L., Schmalfuß, S., Stratmann, F., Voigtländer, J., and Stacewicz, T. (2022): Contactless optical hygrometry in LACIS-T, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 4075–4089, doi:10.5194/amt-15-4075-2022.
Hartmann, S., Ling M., Dreyer, L. S. A., Zipori, A., Finster, K., Grawe, S., Jensen, L. Z., Borck, S., Reicher, N., Drace, T., Niedermeier, D., Jones, N. C., Hoffmann, S. V., Wex, H., Rudich, Y., Boesen, T., and Šantl-Temkiv, T. (2022): Structure and Protein-Protein Interactions of Ice Nucleation Proteins Drive Their Activity, Front. Microbiol., 13:872306, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.872306.
Roudini, M., Niedermeier, D., Stratmann, F., and Winkler A. (2020): Droplet generation in standing-surface-acoustic-wave nebulization at controlled air humidity, Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 014071, doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.014071.
Shaw, R. A., Cantrell, W., Chen, S., Chuang, P., Donahue, N., Feingold, G., Kollias, P., Korolev, A., Kreidenweis, S., Krueger, S., Mellado, J. P., Niedermeier, D., and Xue, L. (2020): Cloud-aerosol-turbulence interactions: Science priorities and concepts for a large-scale laboratory facility, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 101(7), E1026-E1035, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0009.1.
Niedermeier, D., Voigtländer, J., Schmalfuß, S., Busch, D., Schumacher, J., Shaw, R. A., and Stratmann, F. (2020): Characterization and first results from LACIS-T: a moist-air wind tunnel to study aerosol–cloud–turbulence interactions, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 2015-2033, doi:10.5194/amt-13-2015-2020.
Voigtländer, J., Chou, C., Bieligk, H., Clauss, T., Hartmann, S., Herenz, P., Niedermeier, D., Ritter, G., Stratmann, F., and Ulanowski, Z. (2018): Surface roughness during depositional growth and sublimation of ice crystals, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 13687-13702, doi:10.5194/acp-18-13687-2018.
Niedermeier, D., Chang, K., Cantrell, W., Chandrakar, K. K., Ciochetto, D., and Shaw, R. A. (2018): Observation of a link between energy dissipation rate and oscillation frequency of the large-scale circulation in dry and moist Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence, Phys. Rev. F., 3, 083501, doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.083501.
Chandrakar, K. K., Cantrell, W., Chang, K., Ciochetto, D., Niedermeier, D., Ovchinnikov, M., Shaw, R. A. and Yang, F. (2016). Aerosol indirect effect from turbulence-induced broadening of cloud-droplet size distributions, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 113(50), 14243-14248.
Chang, K., Bench, J., Brege, M., Cantrell, W. H., Chandrakar, K., Ciochetto, D., Mazzoleni, C., Mazzoleni, L., Niedermeier, D., and Shaw R. A. (2016): A laboratory facility to study gas-aerosol-cloud interactions in a turbulent environment: The Pi Chamber, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 97 (12), 2344-2358, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00203.1.
Hartmann, S., Wex, H., Clauss, T., Augustin-Bauditz, S., Niedermeier, D., Rösch, M., and Stratmann, F. (2016): Immersion freezing of kaolinite: Scaling with particle surface area, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 263–278.
Niedermeier, D., Augustin-Bauditz, S., Hartmann, S., Wex, H., Ignatius, K., and F. Stratmann (2015): Can we define an asymptotic value for the ice active surface site density for heterogeneous ice nucleation?, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 5036–5046, doi:10.1002/2014JD022814.
Pummer, B. G., Budke, C., Augustin-Bauditz, S., Niedermeier, D., Felgitsch, L., Kampf, C. J., Huber, R. G., Liedl, K. R., Loerting, T., Moschen, T., Schauperl, M., Tollinger, M., Morris, C. E., Wex, H., Grothe, H., Pöschl, U., Koop, T., and Fröhlich-Nowoisky, J. (2015): Ice nucleation by water-soluble macromolecules, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 4077-4091, doi:10.5194/acp-15-4077-2015.
Hiranuma, N., Augustin-Bauditz, S., Bingemer, H., Budke, C., Curtius, J., Danielczok, A., Diehl, K., Dreischmeier, K., Ebert, M., Frank, F., Hoffmann, N., Kandler, K., Kiselev, A., Koop, T., Leisner, T., Möhler, O., Nillius, B., Peckhaus, A., Rose, D., Weinbruch, S., Wex, H., Boose, Y., DeMott, P. J., Hader, J. D., Hill, T. C. J., Kanji, Z. A., Kulkarni, G., Levin, E. J. T., McCluskey, C. S., Murakami, M., Murray, B. J., Niedermeier, D., Petters, M. D., O'Sullivan, D., Saito, A., Schill, G. P., Tajiri, T., Tolbert, M. A., Welti, A., Whale, T. F., Wright, T. P., and Yamashita, K. (2015): A comprehensive laboratory study on the immersion freezing behavior of illite NX particles: a comparison of 17 ice nucleation measurement techniques, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 2489-2518, doi:10.5194/acp-15-2489-2015.
Wex, H., Augustin-Bauditz, S., Boose, Y., Budke, C., Curtius, J., Diehl, K., Dreyer, A., Frank, F., Hartmann, S., Hiranuma, N., Jantsch, E., Kanji, Z. A., Kiselev, A., Koop, T., Möhler, O., Niedermeier, D., Nillius, B., Rösch, M., Rose, D., Schmidt, C., Steinke, I., and Stratmann, F. (2015): Intercomparing different devices for the investigation of ice nucleating particles using Snomax® as test substance, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 1463-1485, doi:10.5194/acp-15-1463-2015.
Augustin-Bauditz, S., Wex, H., Kanter, S., Ebert, M., Niedermeier, D., Stolz, F., Prager, A., and Stratmann, F. (2014): The immersion mode ice nucleation behavior of mineral dusts: A comparison of different pure and surface modified dusts, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL061317.
Wex, H., DeMott, P. J., Tobo, Y., Hartmann, S., Rösch, M., Clauss, T., Tomsche, L., Niedermeier, D., and Stratmann, F.(2014): Kaolinite particles as ice nuclei: learning from the use of different kaolinite samples and different coatings, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 5529-5546, doi:10.5194/acp-14-5529-2014
Niedermeier, D., Ervens, B., Clauss, T., Voigtländer, J., Wex, H., Hartmann, S., and Stratmann, F. (2014): A computationally efficient description of heterogeneous freezing: A simplified version of the Soccer ball model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058684.
Augustin, S., Wex, H., Niedermeier, D., Pummer, B., Grothe, H., Hartmann, S., Tomsche, L., Clauss, T., Voigtländer, J., Ignatius, K., and Stratmann, F. (2013): Immersion freezing of birch pollen washing water, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 10989-11003, doi:10.5194/acp-13-10989-2013.
Hartmann, S., Augustin, S., Clauss, T., Voigtländer, J., Niedermeier, D., Wex, H., Stratmann, F. (2013): Immersion freezing of ice nucleating active protein complexes, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 5751-5766, doi:10.5194/acp-13-5751-2013.
Clauss, T., Kiselev, A., Hartmann, S., Augustin, S., Pfeifer, S., Niedermeier, D., Wex, H., Stratmann, F. (2013): Application of linear polarized light for the discrimination of frozen and liquid droplets in ice nucleation experiments, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 1041- 1052, doi:10.5194/amt-6-1041-2013.
Tobo, Y., DeMott, P. J., Raddatz, M., Niedermeier, D., Hartmann, S., Kreidenweis, S. M., Strat-mann, F., Wex, H. (2012): Impacts of chemical reactivity on ice nucleation of kaolinite particles: a case study of levoglucosan and sulfuric acid, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L19803, doi:10.1029/2012GL053007.
Niedermeier, D., Hartmann, S., Clauss, T., Wex, H., Kiselev, A., Sullivan, R. C., DeMott, P. J., Petters, M. D., Reitz, P., Schneider, J., Mikhailov, E., Sierau, B., Stetzer, O., Reimann, B., Bundke, U., Shaw, R. A., Buchholz, A., Mentel, T. F., Stratmann, F. (2011): Experimental study of the role of physicochemical surface processing on the IN ability of mineral dust particles, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 11131-11144, doi:10.5194/acp-11-11131-2011.
Niedermeier, D., Shaw, R. A., Hartmann, S., Wex, H., Clauss, T., Voigtländer, J., Stratmann, F. (2011): Heterogeneous ice nucleation: exploring the transition from stochastic to singular freezing behavior, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 8767-8775, doi:10.5194/acp-11-8767-2011.
Reitz, P., Spindler, C., Mentel, T. F., Poulain, L., Wex, H., Mildenberger, K., Niedermeier, D., Hartmann, S., Clauss, T., Stratmann, F., Sullivan, R. C., DeMott, P. J., Petters, M. D., Sierau, B., Schneider, J. (2011): Surface modification of mineral dust particles by sulphuric acid processing: implications for ice nucleation abilities, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 7839-7858, doi:10.5194/acp-11-7839-2011.
Hartmann, S., Niedermeier, D., Voigtländer, J., Clauss, T., Shaw, R. A., Wex, H., Kiselev, A., Stratmann, F. (2011): Homogeneous and heterogeneous ice nucleation at LACIS: operating principle and theoretical studies, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 1753-1767, doi:10.5194/acp-11-1753-2011.
Sullivan, R. C., Petters, M. D., DeMott, P. J., Kreidenweis, S. M., Wex, H., Niedermeier, D., Hartmann, S., Clauss, T., Stratmann, F., Reitz, P. and Schneider, J. (2010): Irreversible loss of ice nucleation active sites in mineral dust particles caused by sulphuric acid condensation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 11471-11487, doi:10.5194/acp-10-11471-2010.
Niedermeier, D., Hartmann, S., Shaw, R. A., Covert, D., Mentel, T. F., Schneider, J., Poulain, L., Reitz, P., Spindler, C., Clauss, T., Kiselev, A., Hallbauer, E., Wex, H., Mildenberger, K., Stratmann, F. (2010): Heterogeneous freezing of droplets with immersed mineral dust particles - measurements and parameterization, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 3601-3614, doi:10.5194/acp-10-3601-2010.
Wex, H., Stratmann, F., Hennig, T., Hartmann, S., Niedermeier, D., Nilsson, E., Ocskay, R., Rose, D., Salma, I., Ziese, M. (2008): Connecting hygroscopic growth at high humidities to cloud activation for different particle types, Environ. Res. Lett., 3, 1-10.
Niedermeier, D., Wex, H., Voigtländer, J., Stratmann, F., Brüggemann, E., Kiselev, A., Henk, H., Heintzenberg, J. (2008): LACIS-measurements and parameterization of sea-salt particle hygroscopic growth and activation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 579-590, doi:10.5194/acp-8-579-2008.
Voigtländer, J., Stratmann, F., Niedermeier, D., Wex, H., Kiselev, A. (2007): Mass accommodation coefficient of water: a combined computational dynamics and experimental data analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D20208, doi:10.1029/2007JD008604.