Nils Brüggemann Appointed Professor at ZMT Bremen
At the start of the new year, Nils Brüggemann will take up a position as a professor of Earth system modeling and tropical coastal systems at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and the University of Bremen. The joint appointment is part of a strategic expansion at the ZMT entitled “Modelling socio-economic dimensions across Tropical Coastal Ecosystems and the Earth System” (TropEcS). The goal is to develop a high-resolution modeling framework that integrates physical, ecological, and social processes to improve climate change projections, support political decision-making processes, and strengthen resilience in the Global South. Nils Brüggemann will oversee this endeavor, contributing his expertise as a modeler, oceanographer, and turbulence researcher.
“I am very much looking forward to the new challenge of developing application-oriented Earth system models that provide relevant information that helps people in tropical coastal regions adapt to climate change,” said Brüggemann.
His research group will focus on the influence of ocean turbulence on tropical coastal regions. The model configuration to be developed will form the basis for further biogeochemical, ecological, and socioeconomic studies.
Nils Brüggemann is already familiar with the new location. From 2004 to 2009, he studied physics at the University of Bremen and wrote his thesis under Dirk Olbers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.
“You could say that I discovered my passion for oceanography in Bremen and Bremerhaven,” said Brüggemann.
He completed his doctoral thesis at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel and the University of Hamburg in 2014. Following positions at the University of Hamburg and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Brüggemann joined the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the University of Hamburg in 2017 as a researcher in the “TRR181—Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean” Transregio project. From 2022 until his recent appointment, he co-led the “Complex Modeling and Extreme Computing” group at MPI-M with Peter Korn. He will continue to co-supervise two doctoral candidates and one postdoc at MPI-M.
Further information
Nils Brüggemann's talk at the TropEcS symposium, September 2025
Contact
Prof. Dr. Nils Brüggemann
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research
University of Bremen
nils.brueggemann@leibniz-zmt.de