Franz Philip Tuchen

Dr. Franz Philip Tuchen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ocean Sciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. He is a sea-going physical oceanographer who studies the tropical oceans and his research interests are ocean currents and waves, air-sea interaction, extreme ocean events, and ocean observing systems. Dr. Tuchen received his PhD at GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany in 2020. He was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory and a Senior Researcher at the University of Bremen in Germany before joining the University of Miami. For his research, he designs sea-going experiments and regularly participates in scientific cruises to the tropical oceans to collect data from a variety of observing platforms. In addition to his research, Dr. Tuchen is an active member of the CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) and a member of the PIRATA Scientific Steering Group (SSG).