Dominik André Strebel

Dominik André Strebel is a Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zürich, affiliated with the Chair of Building Physics. His research focuses on urban climate modeling, mesoscale meteorology, and machine learning applications in environmental systems. He holds a MSc in Engineering (Energy and Environment) from HSR Rapperswil (now OST), where his studies emphasized climate models for renewable energy forecasting and Smart Grids. His Master’s thesis involved developing a coupled climate and multiphysics model for overhead power lines in collaboration with Swissgrid, alongside improving weather forecasts using UAV data integration in WRF models.

Research Interests:

• Urban Heat Island simulation and mitigation
• Mesoscale meteorological modeling (WRF, COSMO)
• Machine learning for urban climate analysis
• High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Science
• GIS and mathematical modeling for urban environments

Key Contributions:

• Developed frameworks coupling WRF-UCM-SOLWEIG for thermal comfort mapping at city scale
• Advanced methods for quantifying urban climate drivers (e.g., LCZ analysis)
• Improved mesoscale predictions using hybrid ML and sensor data
• Explored intra-urban warming patterns in heatwaves across multiple cities

Current Projects:

• Hybrid machine learning-mesoscale modeling for urban climate prediction
• Mapping heat exposure indices in mid-latitude cities
• Urban morphology clustering for identifying heat-vulnerable neighborhoods