Dr. Sebastian Zubrzycki

Dr Sebastian Zubrzycki studied geography at Universität Hamburg and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and received his doctorate in biogeochemistry of Arctic soils from Universität Hamburg. Afterwards he worked as a postdoc in the Siberian Arctic in collaboration with the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg University, Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk as well as Universität Hamburg. As a science manager, he worked for three years coordinating the BMBF funded project CarboPerm: An interdisciplinary Russian-German project on the formation, turnover and release of carbon in Siberian permafrost landscapes. Further, he had teaching assignments at St Petersburg University and Lomonosov Moscow State University. In October 2016, he joined SICSS being in charge for the internationalization strategy as well as gender and diversity issues. Another task of Sebastian is the executive coordination of the EU funded Climate KIC program at Universität Hamburg, Europe's largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change.