Franz Meixner
Main Focus
analytical methods fort the measurement of gaseous and particulate trace substances (SO2, H2SO4, SO4=, NO, NO2, HNO2, HNO3, NO3-, NH3, NH4+, O3)
airborne (aircraft, balloon) measurements of atmospheric trace gases (SO2, COS, CS2, DMS, NO, NO2, O3)
development of micrometeorological methods and measurement of the turbulent flux of gaseous and particulate trace substances in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: eddy-covariance, aerodynamic gradient, (relaxed) eddy-accumulation, boundary layer mass balance (SO2, H2SO4, SO4=, COS, CS2, DMS, NO, NO2, HNO2, HNO3, NO3-, NH3, NH4+, O3)
development of enclosure methods (static and dynamic chambers) and measurement of the (bi-directional) exchange between atmosphere, soil and vegetation, respectively (COS, CS2, DMS, NO, NO2, HNO2, NH3, O3)
laboratory experiments for the characterization of biogenic NO- und HNO2-emissions.
large-scale field experiments: biosphere-atmosphere exchange of (reactive) trace gases in agricultural ecosystems and – preferably – in (very) remote, natural ecosystems (savannah, rain forest, desert, high-altitude mountains) in temperate (Europe, China, Mongolia) and (sub-)tropical latitudes (Africa, Brazil)Curriculum Vitae
1972 B.Sc. (Vordiplom) Physics, University Wuerzburg (Germany)
1976 M.S. (Diplom; 1,0) Meteorology, University Frankfurt/M (Germany)
1981 Ph.D. (Dr.phil.nat., summa cum laude) Geosciences, University Frankfurt/M (Germany)
1976 - 1981 Junior Scientist, Institute of Meteorolgy and Geophysics, Department of Meteorology,
University Frankfurt/M (Germany)
1981 - 1986 Senior Scienist, head of working group "Wet Chemistry", Research Center Juelich
(Germany), Institute of Atmospheric Chemistry
1986 - 1991 Senior Scientist, head of working group "Micrometeorology/Trace Gas Exchange"
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental Atmospheric Research, Garmisch-
Parten-kirchen (Germany)
1991 - 2014 Senior Scientist, head of working group "Micrometeorology and Flux Measurement
Methodology", Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department,
Mainz (Germany)
2014 - Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry
Department, Mainz (Germany)
1997 - 2011 Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
1981 Environmental Protection Award of the J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt/M Germany
2000 - 2011 member, Editorial Board "Umweltwissenschaften & Schadstofforschung" (UWSF)
2004 - 2015 member, Editorial Board "Biogeosciences" (BGS)
2011 - 2018 member, Editorial Board "Atmospheric Measurement Techniques" (AMT)
1976 - 2006 member, Deutsche Meteorologische Gesllschaft (DMG)
1982 - 2014 member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1991 - 2014 member, European Geophysical Society (EGS)
1998 - member, Zambezi Society (Zimbabwe)
2008 - member, DesrtNet International
1983 - 1984 co-ordinator, French-German Aircraft Mission "STRATOZ II"
1987 - 1997 member, Steering Group, "Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Pollutants (BIATEX-1)"-
subproject within the EUREKA Environmental Project EUROTRAC
1988 - 1991 co-ordinator, EU-project "Developement of automatic chemical sensors for deposition
measurements by the gradient method" (CEC-COST 611)
1998 - 1999 executive secretary, EU-project "European studies on trace gases and atmospheric
chemistry as a contribution to the large scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in
Amazonia" (EUSTACH-LBA)
2001 - 2002 field coordinator, “Cooperative LBA Air-borne Regional Experiment” (CLAIRE2001)
2006 -2012 member, co-operative research project "Exchange Processes in Mountaineous Regions"(DFG-EGER)
2008 - 2014 member, Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society (Chemistry-Physics-Technology-
Section, CPTS) as representative (elected) of scientific staff employees of the Max
Planck Institute for Chemistry