Research

Jochem Marotzke’s main research areas are the role of the large-scale ocean circulation in climate, the impact of climate change, and climate dynamics. His scientific methods are theory, modeling, observations, and, in particular, the synthesis of all three approaches. He spent many years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.A. and at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK. In 2003 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, as Scientific Member, Director, and Head of the Department ‘The Ocean in the Earth System’.

Career

• since 2003 Director and Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg
• 1999 Professor of Oceanography, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK
• 1997 Associate Professor of Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
• 1992 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
• 1990 Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
• 1990 PhD in Oceanography, Universität Kiel