Seaweed, Iodine, New Particles and Atmospheric Chemistry—The Current State of Play

Roland von Glasow studied atmospheric physics in Mainz, Germany and received his Ph.D. in 2001 for modelling studies of the chemistry of the marine boundary layer. His Ph.D. thesis, which he worked on at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, focussed on the chemistry of reactive halogens and sea salt aerosols. After two years as a postdoc at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA, he was awarded an Emmy Noether stipend by the German Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which enabled him to start an independent Junior Research Group at the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. The work of his group focusses on tropospheric halogen chemistry (marine boundary layer, polar regions, volcanoes, salt lakes, free troposphere), links between halogen and sulfur chemistry, the background chemistry of the marine boundary layer, and the microphysics of aerosols and clouds in the marine boundary layer.