Dirk Notz

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Dirk Notz is Head of the Max Planck Research Group ‘Sea Ice in the Earth System’ at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. Furthermore, he is Adjunct Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University Centre Svalbard in Norway. His research interests, among other topics, include the representation of sea ice in climate models, air-ice-sea interaction and physical processes in sea ice. He is Council Member of the International Glaciological Society and Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) as well as Editor of The Cryosphere. In 2017, he won an idw Award for Science Communication.