Gerald Haug

Haug graduated in Geology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 1992 and received his PhD at the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1995. ==Career==

From 1995 to 1996 Haug worked as a postdoc at GEOMAR, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. From 1996 to 1997 he had been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, United States, and became later a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (1997–1998). From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a senior assistant at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and habilitated in the Earth Sciences (2002). Haug is signee of a protest note which points out the dangers arising from ignoring climate change. Haug initiated the construction of the research sail yacht S/Y Eugen Seibold and coordinates the research. ==Other activities==

• Virchow Prize for Global Health, Member of the Prize Committee (since 2022) • German Future Prize, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020) • Academy of Sciences and Literature, Member (since 2018) • Academia Europaea, Member (since 2008) • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Member of the Board of Governors • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Member of the Supervisory Board • Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Member of the Board of Trustees • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Member of the Board of Trustees • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board • Werner Siemens Foundation, Member of the Advisory Council == Awards and honors ==

• 2001: of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) • 2007: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG • 2010: Rössler Prize == Selected publications ==

• • • • • with Daniel M. Sigman: The biological pump in the past. In: Henry Elderfield (Hrsg.): Treatise on Geochemistry. Volume 6: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry. Elsevier, 2003, (PDF) • • == References ==