Prof. Dr. Markus Rex leads the section „Atmospheric Physics“ of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and is professor for Atmospheric Physics at the University of Potsdam.
He studied Physics, Meteorology and Geophysics at the Carolo- Wilhelmina-Universität Braunschweig and at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. In 1993 he graduated in Physics in Göttingen. He received a PhD from the Free University in Berlin in 1997 and habilitated at the University of Bremen in 2013. Before he took over his current position Prof. Rex has been PostDoc at NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in the US, Senior scientist at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and teached at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Bremen. He published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers and received multiple awards for his research on the polar climate system. Markus Rex is also the head of the largest Arctic research expedition of all time: the MOSAiC expedition.