Seniorprofessor Dr. Mojib Latif

Office:
Phone: +49-431 600 4050
(Mobile: +49-172-4140582)
Fax: +49-431 600 4052
E-Mail: mlatif(at)geomar.de

Address:
GEOMAR
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3
24148 Kiel, Germany

Klimaphysik (Bachelor of Science: "Physik des Erdsystems: Meteorologie - Ozeanographie - Geophysik"; in German)
Climate Dynamics (Master of Science: "Climate Physics: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography"; in English)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Master of Science: "Climate Physics: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography"; in English)

Born	29 September 1954 in Hamburg
Married with	Elisabeth Latif
School	1961 - 1974 1974 Matriculation examination, Gymnasium Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer, Hamburg
College/University	1974 - 1976 Business sciences, Hamburg University, 1976 - 1983 Meteorology, Hamburg University, 1983 Diploma in Meteorology
Ph.D.	1987 Ph.D. in Oceanography, Hamburg University
Habilitation	1989 Qualification as university lecturer in oceanography ('Habilitation'), Hamburg University
Professional experience	1983 - 1985 Scholarship of the Max-Planck-Society at the Max-Planck-Institute für Meteorologie (MPI), Hamburg, Germany
1985 - 1988	Scientist at the MPI
1989 - 2002	Senior scientist at the MPI
since 2003	Professor at the Institut für Meereskunde
since 2004	Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (former Institut für Meereskunde)
since 2012	Professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) (former Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences)
since 2020	Senior Professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) / Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR)

2000 Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society
2000 Max-Planck Award for public Science
2002 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2004 DUH-Umwelt-Medienpreis 2004: Kategorie "Lebenswerk" (der Deutschen Umwelthilfe)
2006 NORBERT GERBIER - MUMM International Award
2009 Deutsche Bank-IFM-GEOMAR Meeresforschungspreis
2012 ASLI's Choice Award is an award for the best book of 2012 in the fields of meteorology / climatology / atmospheric sciences
2015 Deutscher Umweltpreis 2015 der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
2016 Order of Merit of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein
2018 B.A.U.M.-Umweltpreis
2019 NatureLife-Umweltpreis
2019 Alfred-Wegener-Medaille der Deutschen Meteorologischen Gesellschaft
2021 "Goldenes Lot" des Verbandes Deutscher Vermessungsingenieure (VDV)
2022 "Nachhaltigkeitspreis 2022" der "Sächsischen Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Nachhaltigkeit"
Winter term 2023/24 „Dr. Jörg Mittelsten Scheid Visiting Professorship“ in the Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering at the University of Wuppertal
October 2023 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

From 1990 to 1994: Eight visits at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA
1995: BMRC, Melbourne, Australia
1996: CIMAS/RSMAS, Miami, Florida, USA
1996, 1998: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA

Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft(German Meteorological Society)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg
since June 2021 Vice President
since January 2022 President
Deutsche Gesellschaft CLUB OF ROME,
since 2010 member
since January 2017 member of the presidium
since November 2017 President
German Climate Consortium e.V. (DKK)
2012 - March 2021 Deputy Chairman
May 2015 - March 2021Chairman

1987 TOGA Numerical Experimentation Group (NEG)
1989 Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the International TOGA Board
1991 Co-Chairman of the TOGA Numerical Experimentation Group (NEG)
1994 Member of the CLIVAR/GOALS Numerical Experimentation Group (NEG)
2001-2005 Member of the CLIVAR WGCM (Working Group on Global Coupled Modelling)
2001+2007 Contributing Author IPCC Reports 2001 and 2007
2006 - 2017 Member CAU Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean"