Manuela van Pinxteren

Dr. Manuela van Pinxteren

Leibniz Institute for

Tropospheric Research

Permoserstraße 15

04318 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 2717- 7102

Mail: manuela.vanpinxteren@tropos.de

Room: 007 (Geb. 23.1)

Function

Scientist

Department:

Atmospheric Chemistry Deaprtment

Research areas & research interest:

Research theme: Interactions between ocean and atmosphere • Analytical method development for the trace analysis of natural organic compounds in marine samples (hyphenated MS-techniques: GC-MS, LC-MS)
Planning and performing of field campaigns for the sampling of marine aerosol particles and seawater (research cruises, atmospheric stations)

Current and recently completed projects

DFG project: BIOCAT-AEROSOL (2024-2027)
DFG research unit: BASS (2022-2025)
DFG project: OCEAN-GATE (2022-2025)
DFG project: ORIGAMY (2021-2025)
SAW project MarParCloud (2016-2019)
DFG project: ALAMARE phase I (2011-2015) and phase II (2016-2017)
Transregio project:

Arctic Amplification (AC3) phase I (2016-2019)

Arctic Amplification (AC3) phase II (2020-2023)

Arctic Amplification (AC3) phase III (2024-2028)

Large field campaign:

2023: ORIGAMY campaign: Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO), chief scientist
2021: Balloon campaign in Ny Alesund, project leader
2019: PI-ICE, Antarctic Research Station Juan Carlo I., project leader
2018: ProAerosol, (ship campaign), project leader
2017: MarParCloud / MARSU, CVAO, chief scientist
2017: PASCAL, (ship campaign), Arctic, project leader
2015: Meteor M117, (ship campaign), Baltic Sea, project leader
2013 ALAMARE II, CVAO, chief scientist
2011 ALAMARE I, Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO), chief scientist

Teaching:

2022 and 2023: Lecturer at the SOLAS summer school, online and at the Ocean Science Center Mindelo (Cape Verde)
2019: Lecturer at the IV. Sino-European Summer School “SESAC” in Shanghai
since 2012: Lecturer in the postgraduate studies “Analytics and Spectroscopy” at the Leipzig university

Memberships:

since 2024: national SOLAS representative
2019-2022: Guest editor at the Special Issue: Marine organic matter: from biological production in the ocean to organic aerosol particles and marine clouds (ACP/OS inter-journal SI)
2015: participant at the "Future Leaders Programme of the Science and Technology in Society Forum" (STS-Forum), Kyoto, Japan
since 2012: participant in the internal scientific advisory board at TROPOS

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Academic qualification

1997-2002	Study of Chemistry with the focus of Environmental Chemistry	Leipzig University
09/2002	Diploma in Chemistry (Environmental Chemistry) with the grade „very good“(1,3)	Leipzig University
09-12/1999	DAAD practical training (Development and testing of catalysts)	University of Campinas, Brasil
2003-2005	Teaching activities during GDCh courses in gas chromatography
01/2003- 04/2006	Doctorate	Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Department of Analytical Chemistry
05/2006-06/2011	Postdoc in the Department of Analytical Chemistry	Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Since 07/2011	Scientist at the Atmospheric Chemistry Department	Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig