is co-chair in the research mission and coordinator of ASMASYS. As a marine biogeochemist and chemical oceanographer, his main expertise is in the study of environmentally relevant gases in the marine environment, with a particular focus on the greenhouse gases methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide, including the inorganic carbon cycle.
I am a marine biochemists and eco-physiologist. My main field of expertise encompasses feeding ecology and metabolism of benthic organisms from shallow to deep water, with special emphasis on the role that they play in nutrient and carbon cycling in the ecosystem. In the ASMASY project I work on the evaluation of CDR options from natural science aspects, especially on the possible side effects that they might have on marine ecosystems
Christine Merk is an expert on the perceptions of carbon dioxide removal among laypersons and experts. She uses focus groups, surveys, and experiments to find out how people assess the different technologies and what drives differences in perceptions such as values, attitudes, and framings. She contributes her expertise from other projects like OceanNETs and SeaStore for setting up the assessment framework in Asmasys.
With a background in environmental sciences, Christian Baatz is working on climate ethics and global justice for quite some time. Together with Lieske Voget-Kleschin he is leading the the ethics work package in ASMASYS that develops assessment criteria pertaining to distributive justice, procedural justice and environmental ethics. In addition, they are investigating how to structure and systematize the the various criteria relevant for assessing (marine) CDR measure.
Lukas Tank is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy working on ethical and justice-theoretical issues surrounding the marine deployment of CDR. He completed his PhD on the ethics of CO2 pricing, and subsequently conducted research on the moral implications of the fact that climate change is already costing human lives.
Nele Matz-Lück is professor for international law and the law of the sea at Kiel University. She lectures and publishes regularly on the sustainable use of marine resources and the protection of the marine environment. She is involved in ASMASYS as a PI for the WP on the establishment of an assessment framework and the identification of knowledge gaps. Her working group’s research focuses upon the legal frameworks for CDR technologies.
After his studies, Erik van Doorn worked in the legal office of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg before he moved to Kiel University for his doctorate in international fisheries law. Since then, he has been working as a research associate at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at Kiel University. He completed his doctorate in 2019. In his current research, Erik van Doorn focuses on mineral and living resources, the legal implications of marine spatial planning and the legal aspects of marine uptake of carbon dioxide. He is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study research project (SOLAS).
As a postdoctoral researcher, Tony Cabus is working on the legal feasibility of CDR options under international, European, and German law.
As a postdoctoral researcher with a background in political science and environmental policy, Miranda Boettcher is working on assessing the political and institutional feasibility of marine CO2 removal methods in the context of German and EU climate policy.
External Partner of ASMASYS. As a climate physicist and Earth system modeler, Nadine Mengis brings experience in the creation and application of assessment frameworks for carbon removal measures, as well as expertise in the context of our remaining CO2 emission budgets to the project. Nadine Mengis leads her Emmy Noether group FOOTPRINTS, which conducts research on various aspects of achieving temperature stabilization.
