Butz, Andre

Curriculum Vitae

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Career / education

• 03/2018 – present: Full professor, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany


• 09/2016 – 02/2018: Head of department Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Wessling, Germany, and Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Meteorologisches Institut, München, Germany


• 02/2011 – 08/2016: Head of group, DFG Emmy-Noether young investigator group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, IMK-ASF), Germany


• 01/2014: Habilitation, Heidelberg University, Germany


• 02/2007 – 01/2011: Postdoctoral researcher, Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, The Netherlands


• 07/2006 – 02/2007: Postdoctoral researcher, Institut für Umweltphysik, Heidelberg University, Germany


• 06/2006: Ph.D., “cotutelle de these”, physics, Institut für Umweltphysik, Heidelberg University, Germany, and Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire pour l'Atmosphère et l'Astrophysique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France


• 05/2002: M.A., physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA

Selected other activities / qualifications

• 10/2023 – present: Dean, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University


• 02/2021 – present: Co-Director, Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University


• 10/2021 – 10/2023: Vice-Dean, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University


• Marsilius Kolleg Fellow of Heidelberg University (class 2020/21)


• Associate editor of Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT)       


• Member of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), European Geosciences Union (EGU), American Geophysical Union (AGU), German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)