Contact

Email: mathias.heinze@we dont want spammpimet.mpg.de

Phone: +49-40-41173-150

Office: ZMAW 207

Address

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Bundesstraße 53

20146 Hamburg

Department

The Ocean in the Earth System

Research Group

Ocean Biogeochemistry

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,

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)