Ulrich Pöschl

Ulrich " Uli " Pöschl (born 9 October 1969 in Klagenfurt) since October 1, 2012 Director of the newly established Department of multiphase chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

Biography

Ulrich Pöschl studied chemistry at the Technical University of Graz in Austria and received his PhD in 1995 at Karl Hassler at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry on the topic "Synthesis, spectroscopy and structure selectively functionalized cyclosilanes ". From 1996 to 1997 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the group of Mario J. Molina in the field of atmospheric chemical reaction kinetics and mass of sulfuric acid. 1997 Pöschl joined as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and a researcher in the group of Paul Crutzen about the photochemistry of ozone, organic trace gases and stratospheric clouds. From 1999 to 2005 he worked at the Institute of Water Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, led an independent research group and his habilitation in chemistry on " Carbonaceous Aerosol Composition, Reactivity and Water Interactions". In 2005 he returned to the MPI for Chemistry in Mainz and directed until 2012, a research group in the Department of Biogeochemistry. Since 2007 Pöschl also teaches in the Department of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Earth Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Pöschl is married and has one child.

Research

In the Earth system and climate research priorities of the Department are in the study of biological and organic aerosols, aerosol-cloud interactions and atmospheric surface exchange processes. In the field of life sciences and health is examined, such as protein macromolecules change due to air pollutants and how this affects allergic reactions and diseases. The flow of multi -phase processes at the molecular level and its effect on the macroscopic and global scale is examined. The challenge lies in bridging different spatial and temporal scales: from tens of nanometers up to thousands of kilometers and nanoseconds to years.

Pöschl is the initiator and chief editor of the interactive open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ( ACP), which was founded in 2001 as the world's first science journal with public peer review and discussion and has developed into one of the largest magazines in the environmental and earth sciences. He is also Chairman of the Publications Committee and Council member of the European Geosciences Union ( EGU).

Awards

• 2005: Union Service Award of the EGU

• 2012: Pius XI Gold Medal of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his contributions to the role of chemistry in the atmosphere, climate and health research.