Boris Dorschel

Boris Dorschel received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, in 2003, with dissertation titled “Late Quaternary Development of a Deep-Water Carbonate Mound in the Northeast Atlantic.” Following his Ph.D., he continued cold-water coral carbonate mound research with a two-year postdoctoral position with the Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften, University of Bremen. In 2005, he received a fellowship from the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology and moved to the University College Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland, where he stayed until 2012, and commenced working on cold-water corals in the scope of various Irish and European projects. Over the years, in addition to the work on cold-water corals, his research included increasingly geographic information systems and bathymetry components until these components became the main focus of his research. Consequently, in 2012, he started his current employment as the Head of the Bathymetry Working Group, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, where he researches the bathymetry and seafloor morphology of the high latitudes. He oversaw the integration of the acoustical systems into the OFOBS.