Thomas Laepple appointed as AWI cooperation professor
His discipline at the FB5 is "Earth System Diagnostics"
On November 1, 2019, Dr. Thomas Laepple was appointed Professor in the field of "Earth System Diagnostics" at the Faculty of Geosciences of the University of Bremen. He was also appointed jointly with the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.
Thomas Laepple is an internationally recognized climate researcher who innovatively combines Earth system modelling, palaeoclimate research and statistical data analysis to use data from the geological past for a better understanding of the climate processes of the present and the future.
After graduating from the University of Hamburg with a diploma in physics, Laepple received his doctorate in physics from the University of Bremen. He did research at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and at Harvard University and has been head of a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at the AWI in Potsdam since 2013. In 2017 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
Further information:
https://www.awi.de/ueber-uns/organisation/mitarbeiter/thomas-laepple.html