Ruediger Lang

Ruediger Lang received his Master’s degree in Physics at the University of Cologne in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam. He then moved to Amsterdam and Utrecht for his PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing at Free University Amsterdam, in collaboration with AMOLF and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) in Utrecht.

Following his PhD he moved to Mainz, where he worked as a Post Doc at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry using remote sensing data to evaluate the performance of Chemistry Transport Models, and in particular studying the interaction between aerosol and water vapour and its model representation CMTs and GCMs.

In 2005 Dr. Lang joined EUMETSAT prior to the launch of the first Metop satellite, to work as a staff in the Remote Sensing and Products division on GOME-2 data processing and instrument calibration. Together with Rosemary Munro and ESA he has been coordinating the GOME Scientific Advisory Group until after the launch of Metop-C. In the context of Metop he has lead the development of the multi-instrument aerosol retrieval PMAP using a synergistic retrieval method for aerosol optical properties derived from GOME-2, AVHRR and IASI data.

Ruediger Lang developed, together with Gabriele Poli, the 3MI level-1 co-registration algorithm for EPS-SG until in 2018 he took the lead for the development of the product processing component of the Copernicus CO2M greenhouse gas constellation.

Since 2018 he is the CO2M mission scientist at EUMETSAT coordinating all scientific activities for the future operations of the CO2M constellation. This includes the development of the Multi-Angle Polarimeter (MAP) product processing for the retrieval of aerosols supporting the GHG retrievals from the main grating spectrometer instruments on-board the CO2M platforms.