Martin Losch's Curriculum Vitae

Name: Martin Losch
Born: 06/12/1969, in Hamburg, Germany
Nationality: German
Address: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Postfach 120161
27515 Bremerhaven
Germany
phone: ++49 (471) 4831-1872
fax: ++49 (471) 4831-1797
email: Martin.Losch@awi.de

1991-1997

student of physics and oceanography at the University of Hamburg, Germany
Masterthesis ("Diplomarbeit") on assimilation of sea-surface height data into a tidal model, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Zahel, Institut für Meereskunde (oceanographic institute), Hamburg
University Diploma in physics

1997-2000

PhD position at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Research interests: assimilation of sea-surface height data from satellite altimetry, error characteristics of inverse models
Supervisor: Dr. Jens Schröter, Prof. Dr. Dirk Olbers

2001-2002

Post-doc at MIT, Advisor: Prof. Carl Wunsch
Research interests: influence of bottom topography on the general ocean circulation, bottom topography as a control parameter, non-Boussinesq effects in global ocean modelling.

2003-now

Post-doc, since 2008 research scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Research interests: coupling of biogeochemical models and ocean general circulation models, physical control of biogeochemical processes, vertical mixing, physical and biogeochemical processes in high latitude oceans, data assimilation, inverse models, combination of gravity data and ocean models

Teaching Experience

Spring 1998: Teaching assistant for course on ocean and atmosphere dynamics, University of Bremen.

December 2008: Introduction to data analysis in Matlab, Course in the masters program POLMOR, St. Petersburg, Russia.

June 2010: Ocean circulation and GOCE, GOCE Summerschool, Herrsching.

September 2011: Ocean dynamics, Summerschool of DFG-SPP 1257 ``Mass Transports and Mass Distribution in the Earth System'', Mayschoss im Ahrtal.

supervision of PhD-students Thomas Zweigle, Grit Freiwald and interns

since January, 2005: Organizer of the climate sciences department seminar series, AWI

Seagoing Experience

SEFOS (shelf edge fisheries and oceanography studies), F/S Validivia
North Atlantic, May 1994, CTD and ADCP Measurements.

Funding

ESA, GOCE User Toolbox Specification (GUTS)

ESA, Monitoring and Modelling Individual Sources of Mass Distribution and Transport in the Earth System by Means of Satellites

DFG, Modellierung diffusiver und doppelt-diffusiver Konvektion

DFG, Trends in water mass proper ties in the Weddell Sea from assimilation of float data in a regional ocean model

DFG, Rigorous Fusion of Gravity Field into Stationary Ocean Models (RIFUGIO)

DFG, BiPhyCoSI (Investigation of Bio-Physical Coupling in the Seasonal Ice Zone)

MARUM, Principle Investigator

Graduate research training course ArcTrain

Computer Skills

Unix, Fortran, Matlab, Python.

Language Skills

German:	native speaker
English:	fluent
Norwegian:	basics
French:	basics
Latin:	good reading

List of publications

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Martin Losch