Fellows

Dr. Rainer Froese

Fisheries Biologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Coordinator of FishBase

Current areas of research:

• Fisheries management
• Population dynamics and life history of fishes
• Biodiversity patterns

Prof. em. Jost Heintzenberg

Prof. em. in Physics of the Atmosphere, Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig

Current areas of research:

• Atmospheric aerosols, clouds, and radiation
• Anthropogenic Climate Change
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Ethics in Science

Prof. Gernot Klepper

Program Coordinator of the research areas “The Environment and Natural Resources“ as well as „Poverty Reduction, Equity and Development” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Chair of the German National Committee on Global Change Research

Current areas of research:

• Climate change and climate Policy
• Environmental policy instruments
• Sustainable development
• Interdisciplinary research
• Renewables
• Global environmental problems

Prof. Arne Körtzinger

Professor for Marine Chemistry at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)

Current areas of research:

• Marine carbon cycle
• Oxygen as biogeochemical switch and sensitive indicator of global
• change in the ocean
• Long-term ocean observatory at the Cape Verde Islands
• Autonomous ocean observation
• Method development
   

 Prof. Mojib Latif

Leader of the Research Division “Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics” at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)

Current areas of research:

• Seasonal to interannual variability
• Decadal to Centennial variability
• Anthropogenic climate change
• Model development and Intercomparison

Daiju Narita, Ph.D.

Researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Current areas of research:

• Economic analysis of climate change
• Integrated assessment modeling
• Economic assessment of ocean systems
• Climate change and development

Prof. Dr. Andreas Oschlies

Professor of Marine Biogeochemical Modelling at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)

Current areas of research:

• Physical, biogeochemical, and ecological constraints on the oceanic carbon uptake and its climate sensitivity.
• Development of mechanistic ecological and biogeochemical models.
• Mixing processes and their representation in numerical models.
• Data assimilation and parameter optimisation.

Dr. Sonja Peterson

Head of the Research Area "The Environment and Natural Resources" at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Current areas of research:

• International and European environment and climate policy
• Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling
• Innovation and technology transfer

Prof. Alexander Proelß

Professor at the Kiel Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean”, Walter-Schücking Institute for International Law, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Current areas of research:

• European Law
• International Law of the Sea
• Public International Law
• Constitutional Law

Prof. Katrin Rehdanz

Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Department of Economics/Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Head of Junior Research Group “Valuing the Ocean”, Cluster of Excellence “Future Ocean”

Current areas of research:

• Environmental valuation and policy
• Energy economics
• Applied CGE-Modelling
• Applied economic research

Prof. Martin Visbeck

Chairman of the Research Unit “Physical Oceanography“ at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), present Speaker of the Kiel Excellence Cluster “The Future Ocean”, present Chair Programme Committee World Climate Conference 3

Current areas of research:

• Climate Variability of the Tropical Atlantic
• Dynamics of oxygen minimum zones
• The ocean’s role in interannual to centennial climate variability
• Variability of regional ocean circulation
• The North Atlantic Oscillation and its impact on the ocean
   

Prof. Douglas Wallace

Professor of Marine Chemistry at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)

Current areas of research:

• Chemical tracers
• Carboncycles in the ocean
• Long-term observations in the tropical ocean
• Production and flows of halogenated compounds between the ocean and
• the atmosphere

Prof. Klaus Wallmann

Head of the Research Unit "Marine Geosystems" at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)

Current areas of research:

• Biogeochemical processes in marine sediments
• Global carbon cycle on geological time scales
• Methan hydrates in the seafloor
• CO₂ storage in deep-sea sediments