Jochem Marotzke (born 27 November 1959) is a Germanphysical oceanographer andclimate scientist. He is director of the department of climate variability at theMax Planck Institute for Meteorology inHamburg, and formerly served as the institute's managing director.

Marotzke was born inNister and studied physics at theUniversity of Bonn, theUniversity of Copenhagen and theUniversity of Kiel, and earned his PhD inphysical oceanography in 1990. He worked at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1999, and became an assistant professor there in 1992 and an associate professor in 1997. From 1999 to 2003 he was professor of physical oceanography at theSouthampton Oceanography Centre. In 2003 he became director at theMax Planck Institute for Meteorology and in 2006 he also became a professor of physical oceanography at theUniversity of Hamburg. He was elected as a member of theGerman National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007.^[1][2]

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• German oceanographers
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• German climatologists
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
• Academic staff of the University of Hamburg
• Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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• Max Planck Institute directors

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