Gerald Ganssen President of the European Geosciences Union Instituut voor Aard- en Levenswetenschappen Vrije Universiteit de Boelelaan 1085 1081HV Amsterdam The Netherlands

Gerald Ganssen currently holds the position as associate professor  at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, working in the fields of marine geology, paleoceanography and paleoclimatology.

His university training in geology, paleontology and mineralogy took place at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) between 1973 and 1978. He received Doctor of Science at the Christian-Albrechts- University in Kiel (Germany) in 1982 with a thesis on stable isotopes in planktic and benthic foraminifera in the upwelling region off NW-Africa. He moved to the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in 1982 where he works since then.

His research interests focus on process-oriented studies on stable oxygen and carbon isotope proxies and their application in high-resolution marine sediment cores, land-sea interrelationships and processes of modern and past climate change. He is author of more than 50 publications and is teaching  bachelor and master students in these fields. He was supervisor of more than 10 Ph.D. students and has lead several sea-going expeditions.

Gerald Ganssen is currently President of the European Geosciences Union. He was President of the Division „Climate: Past, Present & Future“ of  EGS and EGU and initiated the EGU e-journal „Climate of the Past“. He serves on several national and international scientific committees and programmes dealing with paleoceanography, modern and past climate and global change in research, training and outreach.