In May 2012 I defended my PhD thesis at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Rostock. The thesis was published in September in the Marine Science Reports of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde:
Meereswiss. Ber. Warnemünde No. 88 (2012).

Since June 2009 I am working as an oceanographer/ modeller of the OceanMet unit at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). Results of a project investigating the flow upstream of the Tidal Weir were presented at the 49th Marine Measurement Forum, Glasgow, in 2011. The presentation can be downloaded here: Hydrographic Measurements of a Tidal Cycle Upstream of the Glasgow Tidal Weir .

From November 2005 to June 2009 I worked in the RAGO (tiefe RAndströme im östlichen Gotlandbecken der Ostsee) project at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) as a PhD student. In the project I investigated the spatiotemporal scales in the deep boundary currents of the Eastern Gotland Basin. In one part of the thesis variations on the monthly scale were investigated using the case study of the warm and saline inflow into the deep Gotland Basin in 1997/98. The results of this investigation are already published (Wieczorek et al., 2008).

Between September and November 2008 I did research at the Sea Mammal Research Unit of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. I was involved in the project SEaOS (Southern Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Samplers) using hydrographic data collected by Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) to investigate the pathways of the SAAC Front (Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Front) around South Georgia in the Southern Ocean.

In 2003 I completed my studies of Physical Oceanography at the University of Hamburg. I made my first work experiences at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) in Hamburg within the CLIVAR Marin-2 project. The final report and 3rd progress report can be found under projects.

Some things are still in German, but they'll be translated some time. (I wrote this when I started this website...)