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Henry Bittig - CV

Experience

Nov. 2009 - Jul. 2015, (IFM-)GEOMAR Kiel, Germany, Scientist Marine Biogeochemistry
Sept. 2015 - Jun. 2018, LOV/CNRS, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Scientist Marine Optics and Biogeochemistry
Sept. 2018 - Apr. 2020, IOW, Warnemünde, Germany, Scientist Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation
May 2020 - present, IOW, Warnemünde, Germany, Scientist Marine Chemistry

Education

2007, Universität Leipzig, Germany, B. Sc. Chemistry
2009, Universität Leipzig, Germany, M. Sc. Chemistry
2014, Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Dr. rer. nat.
Dissertation title: "Towards a Quantum Leap in Oceanic Oxygen Observation - From Oxygen Optode Characterization to Autonomous Observation of Gas Exchange and Net Community Production"

Summer Schools

2011, DPG Physics School "Physics of the Ocean", Bad Honnef, Germany
2012, UNIS, "Light Climate and Primary Productivity in the Arctic", Longyearbyen, Svalbard
2015, IOCCP International Summer Course on "Best Practices for Biogeochemical Sensors", Kristineberg, Schweden
2016, IOCCG Summer Lecture Series "Frontiers in Ocean Optics and Ocean Colour Science", Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Awards

2004 - 2009, 2010 - 2013, German National Academic Foundation scholarship
2007, 2015, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship

Honours

2003, Gold Medal, 35th International Chemistry Olympiad, Athens, Greece
2002, 2004, 2006, Participant of the Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Germany
2012, Dissertation Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXIII), Lihue, HI, USA
2015, Prize of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kiel University, for the best dissertation in 2014
2015, Dissertation-Prize of the Prof. Dr. Werner Petersen Foundation
2016, Briese-Award for Marine Sciences 2015