Gerrit DE LEEUW

Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) • Professor

Gerrit (official name Gerardus) de Leeuw is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Currently Gerrit is an external guest at KNMI (2020-present), Department of Satellite Observations and a Visiting Professor (2016-present) and PIFI Fellow (2024/25) at the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) in Beijing, China. Gerrit received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, in 1981. Since 1980, Gerrit was employed at TNO in several functions and was awarded the prestigious TNO Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) in 1996-2006. Gerrit was an NRC Senior Research Associate at Naval Postgraduate School, Dept. Meteorology, Monterey, CA, USA (1988-1989) and a visiting Professor in the UK (Univ. of Sunderland, 1999-2001, and Univ. of Leeds, 2001-2006), until he moved to Helsinki, Finland, in 2007 to take up a full Professorship at the University of Helsinki and FMI. Gerrit served as co-Science Leader of the Aerosol-cci project of the Climate Change Initiative of the European Space Agency. While in Helsinki, Gerrit started many cooperations in China, as Visiting Professor in AIRCAS, Beijing, NUIST, Nanjing, and CUMT, Xuzhou. Gerrit de Leeuw has (co-)authored more than 270 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics varying from sea spray aerosols, air-sea gas transfer, oceanic waves and bubbles, and satellite remote sensing of aerosols, trace gases and greenhouse gases, and the application of the results in scientific studies on air quality and climate. Currently, his primary interest is the application of satellite remote sensing in studies on air quality and climate. (H-index Web of Science 57, Google Scholar 74, with i-10 of 269).

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