Ulrich R. Christensen

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Ulrich Christensen is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen. Christensen’s research revolves around the interior structure and dynamics of planets in the solar system. His overarching question interrogates the similarities and differences between planets and what makes the Earth a habitable planet. In particular, Christensen investigates the magnetic fields of different planets, by looking at a dynamo process model. For this and his other fields of research, Christensen was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and as an honorary fellow of the European Union of Geoscience.