Gerald Haug

Gerald Haug is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Professor of Climate Geology at ETH Zürich. From 2020 to 2025, he served as President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He previously held professorships at ETH Zürich and the University of Potsdam/GFZ Potsdam, following academic and research positions at GEOMAR Kiel, the University of British Columbia, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the University of Southern California.

His research focuses on palaeo-oceanography and climate variability over timescales from thousands to millions of years. Using geochemical analyses of marine and lake sediment cores, he reconstructs past environmental and climate conditions to better understand long-term Earth system dynamics. He is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and has received major scientific honors including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the Rössler Prize.