Environmental Technology Expert Oliver Wurl appointed

Dr. Oliver Wurl, leader of the Marine Interfaces research group, has been appointed Professor of Processes and Sensing of Marine Interfaces at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM).

Wurl has been teaching and researching in Oldenburg since 2014 ‒ initially on a generous “starting grant” from the European Research Council (ERC). Wurl studied environmental technology at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and then worked for four years in research and industry. In 2006 he received his doctorate from the National University of Singapore. From 2008 to 2012 he was a research associate at the Institute of Ocean Sciences of the State Department "Fisheries and Oceans" in Canada and then at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, USA. In 2012 Wurl moved to the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, before coming to Oldenburg in 2014. His research focuses on sea surfaces and their influence on the global climate. Among other things he is studying the role of the thin boundary layer between water and air in the absorption of carbon dioxide by the ocean.