Gerald Haug

Gerald Haug
Photo by Carsten Costard for Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie.
Alma mater	University of Karlsruhe,
Awards	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Geology, Climatology
Institutions	ETH Zürich
Doctoral students	Nele Meckler

Gerald H. Haug(born 14 April 1968 inKarlsruhe,Germany) is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizeand since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland.In 2015 he became director of the Climate Geochemistry Department and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainzand since March 2020, he became the new President of theNational Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Early life and education

Haug graduated in Geology at theKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)in 1992 and received his PhD at theUniversity of Kiel,Germany, in 1995.

Career

From 1995 to 1996 Haug worked as a postdoc atGEOMAR,Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. From 1996 to 1997 he had been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at theUniversity 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 theUniversity of Southern California,Los Angeles, United States (1997–1998). From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a senior assistant at theETH Zürich,Switzerland, and habilitated in theEarth Sciences(2002).

Haug is signee of a protest note which points out the dangers arising from ignoring climate change.

Haug initiated the construction of theresearch sail yacht S/Y Eugen Seiboldand 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:Albert Maucher-Preisof the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• 2007:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizeof the DFG
• 2010:Rössler Prize

Selected publications

• Haug, Gerald H.; Tiedemann, Ralf (1998). "Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation".Nature.393(6686). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 673–676.Bibcode:1998Natur.393..673H.doi:10.1038/31447.ISSN0028-0836.S2CID4421505.
• Haug, Gerald H.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Tiedemann, Ralf; Pedersen, Thomas F.; Sarnthein, Michael (1999). "Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean".Nature.401(6755). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 779–782.Bibcode:1999Natur.401..779H.doi:10.1038/44550.ISSN0028-0836.S2CID4413377.
• Haug, Gerald H.; Tiedemann, Ralf; Zahn, Rainer; Ravelo, A. Christina (2001). "Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance".Geology.29(3). Geological Society of America: 207.Bibcode:2001Geo....29..207H.doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0207:ropuoo>2.0.co;2.ISSN0091-7613.
• Haug, Gerald H.; Hughen, Konrad A.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Peterson, Larry C.; Röhl, Ursula (17 August 2001). "Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene".Science.293(5533). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1304–1308.Bibcode:2001Sci...293.1304H.doi:10.1126/science.1059725.ISSN0036-8075.PMID11509727.S2CID24591761.
• 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,ISBN0-08-043744-3(PDF)
• Haug, Gerald H.; Günther, Detlef; Peterson, Larry C.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Hughen, Konrad A.; Aeschlimann, Beat (14 March 2003). "Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization".Science.299(5613). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1731–1735.Bibcode:2003Sci...299.1731H.doi:10.1126/science.1080444.ISSN0036-8075.PMID12637744.S2CID128596188.
• Haug, Gerald H.; Ganopolski, Andrey; Sigman, Daniel M.; Rosell-Mele, Antoni; Swann, George E. A.; Tiedemann, Ralf; Jaccard, Samuel L.; Bollmann, Jörg; Maslin, Mark A.; Leng, Melanie J.; Eglinton, Geoffrey (2005)."North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago".Nature.433(7028). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 821–825.Bibcode:2005Natur.433..821H.doi:10.1038/nature03332.ISSN0028-0836.PMID15729332.S2CID24116155.