Curriculum vitae

Carsten Lemmen (1974) studied Marine Environmental Sciences (1996-2001) at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. During this interdisciplinary course he acquired basic knowledge in all natural sciences and extensive computer skills. He majored in the mathematical track of this course and wrote his master's thesis on a model formalization of the Neolithic transition employing gradient adaptive dynamics.

Carsten spent a pre-doc year (2001) at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia within the research group of Tom Trull. He performed a stability analysis of a 10-compartment NPDZ food web model in the Southern Ocean under predicted climate changes. Next to theoretical work, he participated in an Antarctic Ocean exploration aboard the research vessel Aurora Australis and conducted mixed layer and deep ocean biogeochemical experiments.

For his doctoral studies (2002-2005), Carsten went back to Germany, to the Research Center Jülich, located near Cologne. Within the group on modelling of stratospheric chemistry, he was concerned with predictions of the ozone hole in climate models and methodological work on how to calculated chemical ozone loss processes in the stratosphere. Carsten Lemmen received his doctorate in atmospheric physics from the Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany, in May, 2005.

Continuing with climate-ozone interactions, Carsten spent one postdoc year at the research centre Jülich within the context of the EU SCOUT-O3 project.

Since July, 2006, Carsten is employed as a postdoctoral researcher by the GKSS Forschungszentrum in Geestacht, Germany, but his workplace is located at the Copernicus Institute at the University Utrecht, in the unit science, technology and society. He will be in Utrecht throughout the year 2006 and will be drafting a proposal for funding for further research on Neolithic societies. His local partner in Utrecht is Bert de Vries.

Selected publications

1. Carsten Lemmen, Rolf Müller, Paul Konopka and Martin Dameris, Critique of the Tracer-tracer correlation technique and its potential to analyse polar ozone loss in chemistry-climate models, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press, doi:10.1029/2006JD007298, 2006
2. Carsten Lemmen, Martin Dameris, Rolf Müller and Martin Riese, Chemical ozone loss in a chemistry-climate model from 1960-1999, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L15820, doi:10.1029/2006GL026939, 2006
3. Carsten Lemmen and Kai W. Wirtz, (2005): Simulating world system history, In: A. Sherrat and A. Hornborg (Ed.) World System History. Columbia Press, New York <download .pdf (343 Kb)> <project>
4. Kai W. Wirtz and Carsten Lemmen: A Global Dynamic Model for the Neolithic Transition, Climatic Change, 59 (3), 333-367, doi:10.1023/A:1024858532005 <project>
5. Carsten Lemmen (2005): Future polar ozone: predictions of Arctic ozone ecovery in a changing climate PhD thesis, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
6. Carsten Lemmen (2001): Understanding the Regional Rise of Civilizations by Means of a Dynamic Model Master's thesis, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg <project>

Full text access

You can access the publication lists and full text at the open access servers of UU and GKSS, for the respective years:

1. for 2006, follow Universiteit Utrecht publication database
2. for 2007 onwards, follow GKSS publications database.