Main Focus

My main interest is to make atmospheric measurements of trace gases relevant for our earth's climate, and to utilize these data in combination with transport models to learn about sources/sinks of those gases, most prominently of CO2. On the experimental side this involves high accuracy measurement of trace gases from airborne platforms, but also development and optimization of such instrumentation. On the theoretical side it involves development of analysis tools such as mesoscale tracer transport models coupled to surface flux models.

Curriculum Vitae

since 08/2004 Leader of the Airborne Trace Gas Measurements and Mesoscale Modeling (ATM) Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, DE
01/1999-07/2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Associate, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
1997-1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany).
1993-1997 PhD-student and Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany).
1992-1993 Studies of Physics at University of Wuppertal, Germany.
1987-1992 Studies of Physics at University RWTH Aachen, Germany.
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