Peter Landschützer
Guest Professor
Keywords
Ocean carbon sink
Air–sea CO₂ exchange
Argo floats
Marchine Learning
ABOUT
Peter is Research Director at VLIZ and leads the Past, Present and Future Marine Climate Change (PPFCC) research group, with expertise in the ocean carbon cycle, air–sea CO₂ exchange, and data-driven approaches to understanding ocean carbon uptake. His research combines ocean observations with data-driven and machine-learning approaches to understand variability and change in ocean carbon uptake from regional to global scales.
As Guest Professor within the MarSens group, he contributes to the Master’s course in Oceanography and co-supervises VLIZ-MarSens joint PhD students Andrea and Maurie.
CURRICULUM
2026–present: Guest Professor, MarSens group, Ghent University, Belgium
2022–present: Research Director, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium
2019–2022: Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
2020–2021: Acting Professor, Universität Hamburg, Germany
2016–2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
2014–2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2011–2014: PhD in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
2008–2011: MSc in Environmental Systems Sciences (Physics), University of Graz, Austria
2004–2008: BSc in Environmental Systems Sciences (Physics), University of Graz, Austria
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2026: Selected as Lead Author, IPCC Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), Working Group I
2019: Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award, Ocean Sciences Division, European Geosciences Union (EGU)
2016: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, awarded (offer declined)