Birgit Heese

Birgit Heese received the Diploma degree in meteorology from the University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, in 1995. The research for her diploma thesis was done at the Nansen Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, from 1990 to 1991, on a comparison between satellite- and ground-based stratospheric ozone measurements. Her Ph.D. thesis was based on ozone lidar measurements from Spitsbergen, Norway, which were conducted at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany. From 1994 to 1998, she was an Associate Professor with The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Spitsbergen, lecturing on the middle polar atmosphere. From 1998 to 2000, she held a post-doctoral position at the Service d’Aeronomie du CNRS, Paris, France, working with airborne ozone lidar measurements. From 2000 to 2006, she was a Scientist with the Lidar Group, Meteorological Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, now measuring aerosol particles by lidar in the troposphere. Since 2007, she has been employed at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany, where she is currently a member of the Polly XT Lidar Group and continues with aerosol observations by lidar.