Joachim Kuss - CV

Married with Heike Kuss since 1997, two children: Katharina (born 1998) and Lennart (born 1999)

Career

1982 A levels (Abitur) at Theodor-Heuss-Schule in Pinneberg

1987 First degree in Chemistry at Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany

1990 Diploma in Chemistry at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (CAU Kiel),

Germany

1994 PhD at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of CAU Kiel

Thesis: “Volatile halogenated hydrocarbons: exchange processes between seawater and the atmosphere” at the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel (IfM-Kiel)

1994-1999 Postdoctoral researcher at IfM- Kiel in the frame of German-JGOFS

1999-2003 Postdoctoral researcher at Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)

in the frame of projects of the German Science Foundation (DFG)

2004-2005 Scientist at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg

Since 2005 scientist at IOW

Nutrients cycling, eutrophication and oxygen depletion in Baltic Sea water masses - monitoring

– Research Area 2 –

Inorganic marine chemistry and sea-air exchange of gases and gaseous compounds – Research Area 1 –