Contact
Email: mathias.heinze@ mpimet.mpg.de
Phone: +49-40-41173-150
Office: ZMAW 207
Address
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstraße 53
20146 Hamburg
Department
Research Group
I am generally interested in the role of the ocean in climate and climatic change. My research interests focus on applying and improving ocean biogeochemistry models for studying the carbon cycle and especially the process of ocean acidification. Currently, I am investigating the influence of changes in deep water ventilation on the ocean biogeochemistry during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (55 Mio yrs ago).
In particular my research interest comprises the following major components
Ocean biogeochemical cycles
Ocean biogeochemistry in (Paleo) Climate modelling
Past and future climate change
Heinze M. and Ilyina T.: Ocean Biogeochemistry in the warm climate of the Late Paleocene. Climate of the Past, doi:10.5194/cp-11-63-2015, 11, 63-79, 2015.
Heinze M.: Modelling the Carbon Cycle during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Reports on Earth System Science 165, 2015 (Ph.D. thesis).
Postdoc
2014 - present: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.)
2011 - 2014: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology/University of Hamburg, Germany,
International Max Planck Research School for Earth System Modelling
University
2005 - 2010: Diploma in Physical Geography (minors Geology and Economics) at University of Cologne, Germany
2010 Diploma thesis at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany:
Glacial and Interglacial environmental conditions in the Amerasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean (German only)