Johannes Lelieveld

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Jos Lelieveld

Johannes "Jos" Lelieveld (born July 25, 1955 in The Hague ) is a Dutch chemist. Since 2000 he has been a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz . Lelieveld is also professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia.

biography

Lelieveld studied in the Netherlands at the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at the University of Leiden .

From 1984 to 1987 he worked at the Geosens BV environmental laboratory. He then worked as a research assistant in the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz until 1993. During this time he completed his doctorate in 1990 at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utrecht. The title of his doctoral thesis, which was supervised by Nobel Prize winner Paul J. Crutzen , was “The role of clouds in tropospheric chemistry”.

In 1991 he spent some time at the Meteorological Institute at Stockholm University and in 1992 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego . In 1993 he returned to the Netherlands and accepted a professorship for “Air Quality” at Wageningen University . From 1996 he worked for four years as a professor for "Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry" at the University of Utrecht and from 1997 to 1999 he was founding director of the international research school COACh (Cooperation on Oceanic, Atmospheric and Climate Change Studies). Finally, in 2000, he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz as Director and Scientific Member, where he succeeded Paul J. Crutzen as head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department.

Jos Lelieveld has been spokesperson for the Paul Crutzen Graduate School (PCGS) in Mainz since 2000 and has been a part-time professor at the Cyprus Institute , Nicosia, since 2008 . He is also the (co-) author of more than 400 publications, co-editor of several scientific journals and a member of international committees. In 2015 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate and professorship from the University of Crete and became a member of the International Silk Road Academy of Sciences in China. In 2018 he was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union . For 2019 he was awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geosciences Union .

research

The research work of Lelieveld's department focuses on photo-oxidation mechanisms, which are central to the self-cleaning of the atmosphere. With the help of specially developed, highly sensitive instruments, trace gases including reactive radicals, which occur in small quantities in the ambient air, are measured and photochemical reaction chains are determined. Laser-optical, mass spectrometric and gas chromatographic methods are used to determine the essential decomposition products of hydrocarbons. The investigations include laboratory and field experiments on board aircraft and ships as well as satellite measurements. Computer models are used to simulate the interaction between chemical and meteorological processes and the influence of changes in the composition of the atmosphere on the climate and the health of the planet in the Anthropocene is examined.

Among other things, he used computer simulations to investigate the consequences of the nuclear disasters in Fukushima and Chernobyl . His working group came to the conclusion that the likelihood of major accidents and the contamination of large areas by radioactive fallout had so far been underestimated.

Its h-index is 95 (Google Scholar, as of May 2020).

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Max Planck Society: Manual of Scientific Members, Munich 2006

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Johannes Lelieveld (with CV) at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on June 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Honorary Professors .
  3. ↑ 2018 Class of AGU Fellows Announced . In: Eos , August 9, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ EGU announces 2019 awards and medals. In: egu.eu. October 17, 2018, accessed October 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ J. Lelieveld, D. Kunkel, MG Lawrence: Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 12, 2012, pp. 4245-4258, doi: 10.5194 / acp-12-4245-2012
  6. ↑ Christopher Schrader: One GAU per decade . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 24, 2012 (accessed December 9, 2012).
  7. ↑ The nuclear disaster is more likely than expected. Max Planck Society, May 22, 2012 (accessed December 9, 2012).
  8. ↑ Jos Lelieveld . Google Scholar . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Lelieveld, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lelieveld, Jos (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague