Deputy of the Strategy Group:: Ocean circulation and climate
Research interests:
- Ocean currents
- Oceanography of the Polar Regions
- Ocean-Icesheet interaction
- Sea level
Torsten Kanzow leads the Department of Climate Sciences and the Physical Oceanography of the Polar Seas of the Alfred Wegener Institute. He is also a professor at the University of Bremen. He conducts research on ocean currents, the oceanography of the polar regions, Ocean-Ice sheet interactions and sea level. As part of his work at the AWI, Kanzow was part of the MOSAIC expedition (2019-2020) in the Arctic and led another research expedition with the "Polarstern" in 2022.