Prof. Dr. Margit Schwikowski is head of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry at Paul Scherrer Institut and Titular Professor at the University of Bern. Her main research interest is reconstructing anthropogenic pollution, environmental conditions, and climate variability from high-alpine ice cores. She has acted as leader of 25 scientific ice core expeditions to high-alpine glaciers in Argentina, Chile, Mongolia, Russia, Svalbard, Switzerland, and Tanzania.