Office:
Phone: +49-431 600 4107
Fax: +49-431 600 4102
E-Mail: mdengler(at)geomar.de

Address:
GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
East shore campus
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
Room 3.115
D-24148 Kiel
Germany

Research Interests

  • observation and analysis of large- and mesoscale ocean circulation 
  • western boundary currents 
  • diapycnal mixing and internal waves 
  • equatorial wave dynamics

      

Education and Employment

University:

  • 1988 - 1991  Freie University of Berlin, undergraduate program in Physics
    1991             Vordiplom (undergraduate degree) in Physics
    1991 - 1995 University of Hamburg, graduate program in Physical Oceanography
    1995             Diplom (M.Sc.) in Physical Oceanography
  • 2000             Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, University of Hamburg

Professional experience:

  • 06/95 - 04/96 Research Scientist, Institut fuer Meereskunde, University of Hamburg
  • 05/96 - 12/96 Graduate Research Fellow, NOAA's PMEL, Seattle, WA
  • 01/97 - 04/00 Research Scientist, Institut fuer Meereskunde, University of Hamburg
  • since 05/00    Research Scientist (Postdoc), Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Kiel

      

Awards

  • 1996
    German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship to visit NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • 20.10.05:
    Fellow in the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG (German Research Foundation)

   

Projects

  • BMBF- Collaborative Project REEBUS, “Role of Eddies in the Carbon Pump of Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems, “WP1: Observation of physical eddy dynamics (1.1.2019-31.12.2021).
  • EU - Horizon 2020 NextGEMS - Next Generation Earth Modelling Systems, LC-CLA-2018_2019_2020 (1.9.2021-31.8.2025)