Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Mathias Zöllner

Engineer
Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Mathias Zöllner
Building A 70, Room 302 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam

Function and Responsibilities:

  • Engineer for the GFZ Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

  • Technical responsibility for the UAV Pool of Section 1.4

  • Development and operation of UAV for remote sensing applications

  • Further development and operation of an UAV borne sensor system for
    greenhouse gas flux measurements

Research Interests:

  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, drones) in geoscience

  • Airborne sensors and remote sensing

  • Geosphere-atmosphere interactions (carbon, water, heat)

  • Trace gas and turbulence measurements

Career:

  • 2017-pres: Engineer (UAV borne sensor systems) at the GFZ

  • 2012-2017: Field geophysicist and technical staff member of a marine seismic crew for the geophysical exploration company Polarcus, Dubai, U.A.E.

  • 2007-2010: Research scientist and overwintering staff member at Neumayer III station
    Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany and Antarctica

  • 2004-2006: Research scientist and overwintering staff member at Neumayer (II) station
    Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany and Antarctica

  • 2001-2004: Research scientist
    Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Education:

  • 2010-2011: Helicopter flight training (FAA Private Pilot Rotorcraft - Helicopter)
    Bristow Academy, Titusville, Florida

  • 2008: PhD Atmospheric Chemistry
    Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany

  • 2001: Dipl.-Ing. Applied Physics (Engineer)
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

  • 1999: Exchange student
    National University of Singapore

  • 1998: Dipl.-Met. (M. Sc. Meteorology)
    Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Projects:

  • EMERGE "Measuring and Modelling Tectonic CO₂ Emissions Through Time"

  • MOSES: Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems

  • TEAM: Trace gas exchange in the Earth-Atmosphere system on Multiple scales

  • AIRMETH: Airborne Measurements of Methane Flux

Research Boards and Committees:

  • GFZ representative at the UAV DACH e.V. - Unmanned Aviation Association
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