Alfred (Ali) Wiedensohler
Alfred Wiedensohler, Prof. Dr.
Date and place of birth: April 13, 1955, Jülich, Germany
Head of the Department Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics
Alfred Wiedensohler studied electrical engineering at the University Duisburg, Germany, and
received his Diploma July 1983. From October 1983 until April 1989, he has employed as
PhD student in the research group Process and Aerosol Measurement Technology at the
University Duisburg and received his PhD in electrical engineering June 1989.
May 1989, he joined the Department of Nuclear Physics at the Lund University, Sweden as
research scientist and later as Assistant Professor.
Since January 1994, he works as senior scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric
Research, Leipzig Germany and leads jointly with Dr. Frank Stratmann the “Aerosol and
Cloud” Department.
In January 1996, he received the associate professorship and since May 2005, he is
Professor at Institute for Meteorology, Faculty of Physics and Geo-Science, University of
Leipzig.
In December 2004, he received the award of a Guest Professor at the College of
Environmental Science and Technology of the Peking University, Beijing, China.
He is head of the World Calibration Centre for Aerosol Physical (WCCAP) of the WMO
(World Meteorological Organization) in the frame of the Global Atmosphere Watch
Programme (GAW) and the European Center for Aerosol Calibration (ECAC) in the frame of
the European infrastructure ACTRIS.
He is Editor-In-Chief of the journal “Atmospheric Environment” since January 2013
He received the award “Highly Cited Researcher” from Thomson Reuters 2014, 2015, 2016 and
2017.
In 2014, he received the “Hagen-Smit” award from the Journal Atmospheric Environment.
He is author or co-author of more than 350 peer-reviewed publications in the field of aerosol
and natural science. His research is presently focused on the physical characterization,
process studies, and the climatology of atmospheric aerosols as well as on the development
of new scientific instrumentation.
Teaching:
Professor at the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Leipzig
International Aerosol Training Courses in the frame of the World Calibration Center for Aerosol Physics
Memberships:
- Editor-In-Chief “Atmospheric Environment”
- Head of the WMO-GAW “World Calibration Center for Aerosol Physics”
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of ACTRIS
- Work package leader ACTRIS NA3
- Editor “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics”
- Associate Editor “Atmospheric Measurement Techniques”
- Chairman of the DKK working group “Afrika”
- Member of CEN/TC 264/WG 32: Working group Air quality – Determination of the particle number concentration
- Member of the VDI working group “Messen von Partikeln in der Außenluft – Bestimmung der Partikelanzahl“
Academic qualifications
1983 Dipl.-Ing., Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University Duisburg, Germany
1989 Doctor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University Duisburg, Germany
1994 Habilitation, Faculty of Physics, Lund University, Sweden
1996 Private Lecturer, Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Germany
2004 Guest Professor at the College of Environmental Science, Peking University, China
2005 Adjunct Professor, Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Education, training and career progression
Since 2015 Head of the “European Center for Aerosol Calibration in the frame of European Research Infrastructure ACTRIS”
Since 2014 Head of the Department of Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics at the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Since 2013 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Atmospheric Environment
Since 2002 Head of World Calibration Centre for Aerosol Physics of the WMO (World Meteorological Organization) in the frame of the Global Atmosphere Watch program (GAW)
Since 1994 Head of the aerosol research group at the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
1992-1993 Assistant Professor at the Department of Nuclear Physics, at the University of Lund, Sweden
1989-1991 Research Scientist at the Department of Nuclear Physics, at the University of Lund, Sweden
1983-1989 Doctoral student at Institute for Process- and Aerosol Measurement Techniques, University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
Further professional activities and committees
Since 1997 Member of “Scientific Advisory Group” for aerosols within the frame of the Global Atmosphere Watch Programs (GAW) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Since 2010 CEN working group on “Particle Counting in the Atmosphere”
Since 2016 ISO working group “TC 24/SC 4/WG 12 “Electrical mobility and number concentration analysis for aerosol particles”
Publications, citation record & awards
May 2018 Author of more than 360 peer reviewed articles
May 2018 h-index of 67 (source: Thomson Reuters Web of Science)
2014 Winner of the Haagen-Smit Award of the Journal of Atmospheric Environment
2014 Award “Highly Cited Researcher” from Thomson Reuters
2015 Award “Highly Cited Researcher” from Thomson Reuters
2016 Award “Highly Cited Researcher” from Thomson Reuters
2017 Award “Highly Cited Researcher” from Thomson Reuters