Charel Wohl

Charel is from the Minette in the south of Luxembourg. He participated at the contest for Young Scientists (Jonk Fuerscher) twice. For his PhD, he focused on the polar oceans and gases they emit as well as on the effects of these gases on the climate. These gases play a role in the self cleaning capacity of the atmosphere and more importantly aerosol formation which brighten/seed clouds and cool the climate. In 2017, Charel was part of the scientific team on the CCGS Amundsen and took first time measurements, in the Canadian Arctic, of very soluble gases in seawater. In 2018 he crossed the Drake Passage a couple of times on the RRS James Clark Ross belonging at the time to the British Antarctic Survey for similar measurements of soluble gases. During a post-doc at the ICM in Barcelona in 2023, Charel took further measurements of these gases around the Antarctic peninsula and the Mediterranean sea. At the moment, Charel is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, flying a Vocus-PTR-ToF on the UK's FAAM aircraft. Charel has initiated the successful Dustbuster Project while he was a board-member of polar.lu. In his free time, Earnest Shakelton style, Charel plays the banjo.