MIT World Speakers

Martin Claussen

Claussen received his Diploma in Meteorology from the University of Hamburg in 1981, was awarded his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck Institue for Meteorology in 1984, and received his Habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 1991. He was on the faculty at Free University of Berlin and has held research scientist appointments at Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, GKSS Research Center in Geestacht, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Claussen has served as chair of the German Meteorological Society since 2003 and Secretary (Climate Modelling) of the European Geosciences Union since 2004. He is a member of the German National Committee on Global Change Research, the German Meteorological Society, the European Geosciences Union and the American Geophysical Union.