Director, Distinguished Professor
Climate Physics
Institute for Basic Science
Korea
Axel Timmermann, Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University, and Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, was appointed Director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics in January 2017. Prior to his move to Korea, he was a tenured Professor for Physical Oceanography at the University of Hawaii and Team Leader at the International Pacific Research Center. Director Timmermann received his PhD in Meteorology from the University of Hamburg in 1999 and his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Marburg in Germany in 1995.