06.01.2016: Dr. Torsten Sachs, head of the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group TEAM, assumes an Assistant Professorship for Atmospheric Physics in a joint appointment of the Technische Universität Braunschweig and GFZ starting 1 January 2016.

Professorship and teaching responsibilities are associated with the Institute of Flight Guidance (Working group Airborne Meteorology). Here, the focus will be on transport processes in the atmospheric boundary layer and the development and instrumentation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for geoscientific research.

At GFZ, Torsten Sachs' research addresses climate-relevant Earth-atmosphere interactions. With his Helmholtz Young Investigators Group he currently focusses on the exchange of heat, water (vapor), and greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4) at the interface of the atmosphere with the hydro-, bio-, and lithosphere. Micrometeorological methods are used for continuous, local monitoring of fluxes as well as for the regional investigation of spatial patterns and mesoscale processes, while biogeochemical methods advance the mechanistic understanding in the subsurface environment.