André Butz - IMK-ASF

Dr. André Butz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK)
Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (ASF)
H.-v.-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Leopoldshafen
Germany
Phone: +49 721 608 24510
Email: [email protected]
CAREER / DEGREES
01/2014
Habilitation,
University of Heidelberg, Germany
2011 – present Emmy-Noether young investigator group,
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology (KIT), Germany
2007 – 2011
Postdoctoral researcher,
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, The Netherlands
2002 - 2007
Ph.D. ("Cotutelle de Thèse"),
Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg, Germany;
Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire pour l'Atmosphère et l'Astrophysique,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2001 - 2002
M. A., physics,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA
1998 – 2001
Studies, physics
University of Würzburg, Germany
SELECTED GRANTS / PROJECTS
2014 – present Contributor to Climate Change Initiative – Greenhouse Gases (GHGCCI), ESA
2013 – 2014
2013 – 2014
Co-proposer of Geostationary Emission Explorer for Europe (G3E),
DLR
Study prime of Consolidation of Sentinel-5 SWIR mission
requirements, ESA
2011 – present Science team member of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
2011 – present Emmy-Noether fellow of the German National Research Foundation
(DFG)
2009 – present Principal Investigator within the 2nd GOSAT Research Announcement
RESEARCH INTERESTS/CORE SKILLS
Climate research, carbon dioxide and methane, aerosols and clouds, radiation budget,
climate forcing and feedbacks, stratospheric photochemistry, halogen chemistry of the
upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
Remote sensing of atmospheric parameters, scattering and absorption properties of the
atmosphere, UV/visible/IR absorption spectroscopy, grating and Fourier Transform
spectrometry.
Radiative transfer models, inverse methods, optimal estimation, Phillips-Tikhonov
regularization.
CV - Dr. André Butz
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