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Oliver Zielinski - CV

2025 -
Appointment to the German Science and Humanities Council (WR)

2023 -
Director Leibniz Institut for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) and Professorship (W3) for Earth System Research,
University of Rostock

2019 - 2023
Head of the Marine Perception Research Department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Oldenburg

2017 - 2023
Head of the Centre for Marine Sensors (ZfMarS) at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)

2017 - 2019
Director of the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg

2011 - 2023
Professorship (W3) for Marine Sensor Systems at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg

2009 – 2013
Chairman of the German Society for Marine Research (DGM)

2007 - 2011
Head of the Institute for Marine Resourses (IMARE), Bremerhaven

2005 - 2011
Professorship (W2) for Control Technology and Process Simulation at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences

2001 - 2004
Executive Board of OPTIMARE Sensorsysteme AG, Bremerhaven

2000 - 2004
Authorised Representative and Scientific Director of Optimare GmbH, Wilhelmshaven

1999 - 2000
Research assistant at the Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz

1999
Dissertation: Bio-optical modelling of the pelagic ecosystem north of the Canary Islands

1996
Diploma: Analysis of radiation transport in the atmosphere for the simulation of a space-based LIDAR

1991 - 1996
Study of physics (minor in computer science), University of Oldenburg