Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Oschlies

Head of Research Unit Biogeochemical Modelling

Research Interests

• Physical, biogeochemical, and ecological constraints on the oceanic carbon uptake and its climate sensitivity
• Ocean Deoxygenation
• Development of mechanistic ecological and biogeochemical models
• Mixing processes and their representation in numerical models
• Data assimilation and parameter optimisation
• Assessment of processes for removing CO2 from the atmosphere (current information here https://carbondioxide-removal.eu/news)

Education and Employment

• since 2006  Professor of “Marine Biogeochemical Modelling” at IFM-GEOMAR, now GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
• 2004 – 2006  Professor of “Physical Oceanography”, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
• 2003 – 2004  Associate Professor, IFM-GEOMAR, Universität Kiel
• 2000 – 2003  Head of interdisciplinary “Nitrogen Cycle” group at IfM Kiel
• 2002  Habilitation at the Universität Kiel with the thesis “Physical controls on biological production: North Atlantic model studies”
• 1997 – 2003  Assistant Professor, IfM, Universität Kiel
• 1995 – 1996  PostDoc at LEGOS/CNRS, Toulouse
• 1994 – 1995  Research Scientist, IfM, Universität Kiel
• 1990 – 1994  PhD student, Theoretical Oceanograpy, IfM Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, with PhD thesis “Assimilation of satellite altimeter data into an eddy-resolving primitive equation model of the North Atlantic Ocean”
• 1989 – 1990  MPhil student, Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, with MPhil thesis “Many-body effects in doped semiconductors”
• 1986 – 1989  first 3 years of Physics (Dipl) degree course, Universität Heidelberg

Committees

• 2024 - dato Member of the European Marine Board, Working Group on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
• 2022 - 2023 Coordinator of the Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Research
• 2022 - 2023 Co-Chair of the European Marine Board working group on Ocean Oxygen
• 2021 - dato coordinator of the DAM Research Mission “Marine Carbon sinks in Decarbonization Pathways”
• 2021 - dato coordinator Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) of the UN Ocean Decade
• 2021   Scientific Curatorship "Bürgerrat Klima"
• 2020 - dato Co-Chair of the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE)
• 2020 - 2021 member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Engieering committee for “A Research Strategy for Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration"
• 2018 - 2022 Co-Editor Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
• 2017 - dato  Member of the SCOR Working Group 155 "Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems"
• 2016 - dato  Member of the IOC-UNESCO Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE)
• 2016 - 2023 Scientific Advisory Board at Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW)
• 2013 – 2015 Member of the CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development
• 2012 – 2019  Coordinator of the DFG funded collaborative research centre "Climate Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean" ( SFB 754)
• 2012 – 2019  Scientific Advisory Board Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres (ICBM), Oldenburg
• 2012 – 2019  Member of ERC Advanced Grants Evaluation Panel
• 2012 – 2020  Coordinator of DFG Priority Program SPP 1689, “Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?”
• 2011 – 2019  Scientific Advisory Board Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie (ZMT) Bremen 
• 2008 -  2018 Steering Committee Future Ocean Cluster of Excellence
• 2006 - 2009  Scientific Advisory Board IUEM, Brest
• 2004 – 2017  Co-Editor Ocean Modelling
• 2004 – 2007  Member of the SCOR GEOTRACES Planning Group
• 2001 – 2010  Co-Editor Ocean Dynamics
• 2001 – 2003  Member of the JGOFS Global Synthesis Working Group

Awards

• 2011  Georg-Wüst Prize
• 1987 - 1990  Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation

Publications

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