Alexander Loew

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Alexander Löw (born May 3, 1975 in Königstein ; † July 2, 2017 ) was a German geographer and university professor .

Life

Alexander Löw studied geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He did his doctorate there from 2001 to 2004 and was a research assistant at the Department of Geography before going to the Goddard Space Flight Center as a visiting scientist in 2007 . Löw completed his habilitation in physical geography in 2009 and became research group leader for terrestrial remote sensing at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. There he set up the research group Global-Scale Remote Sensing and Ground-Level Rural Climate. Since 2015 he has held a professorship for physical geography with a focus on microwave remote sensing at the LMU.

Löw died in a traffic accident. He was married and had two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Mauser: Prof. Dr. Alexander Löw - Researcher and Teacher (PDF)
  2. ↑ Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich: Professor Alexander Löw has died
  3. ↑ Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: MPI-M mourns Alexander Löw
personal data
SURNAME Loew, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd May 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2017