Martin Claussen joins German Academy of Science and Engineering
Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Professor of Meteorology at the University of Hamburg, was elected Ordinary Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) on April 24, 2008. The inauguration ceremony will take place in Berlin on October 21, 2008.
19 brilliant scientists (among these 18 male and one female) will be actively involved in the work of acatec as Ordinary Members. Four distinguished personalities were elected Extraordinary Members of the Academy. acatec is looking forward to collaborating with the newly-elected members, especially since - as a National Academy - it has been faced with new challenges. Through the membership of the renowned scientists, the Academy will expand the leeway of its 11 subject areas.
Martin Claussen studied Meteorology at the University of Hamburg. From 1981 to 1984, the year of his doctorate, he carried out research at the MPI-M in Hamburg and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. From 1984 to 1985 Martin Claussen worked as a scientist at the MPI-M before accepting a job offer at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht in 1985. In 1991 he became a senior scientist at the MPI-M. From 1996 to 2002 he was Professor of Theoretical Climatology at the Free University of Berlin. From 2002 to 2005 Martin Claussen was Professor of Climate Physics at Potsdam University and Managing Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Since 2005 he has been Professor of Meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Scientific Member and Director at the MPI-M. Since 2003 Martin Claussen has been member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina which recently has become the National Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he was awarded the Milutin Milankovic Medal of the European Geosciences Union. Since 2007 he has been chair of the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence called „Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction“ (CliSAP).
For further information about the names and activities of all new members please see:
http://intern.acatech.de/public_press_information_details.php?newsid=143
Since the beginning of 2008, acatec has been operating as the German Academy of Science and Engineering aiming to represent the interests of the German technical sciences in the form of a National Academy. In most industrial nations such a lobby has already been established. acatech – in its new role also – will keep on supporting the fact that technological and technological-political topics can be discussed and evaluated in a balanced and science-based way in Germany. acatech considers its new status as a motivation as well as a responsibility to provide representatives of politics, economy and society with competent and independent recommendations and estimations.
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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and
Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg
phone: 040 41173 226
e-mail: martin.claussen@zmaw.de
July 9, 2008