Gerhard Ehret

Gerhard Ehret was born in Kenzingen, Germany, in 1953. He received the Diploma degree in physics and is now Dr.rer.net at the University Freiburg, Germany, in 1981 and 1986, respectively. Since 1986, he has served in numerous research roles to apply lidar in atmospheric studies at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was member of the WALES and A-SCOPE Mission Advisory Groups at ESA, and is currently the Co-Principal Investigator of the French-German climate mission MERLIN. Since 2000, he has been the Head of the LIDAR Department, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.