Eicken to serve as IARC director
January 20, 2016
Vice Chancellor for Research Larry Hinzman has appointed Hajo Eicken to serve as the director of the International Arctic Research Center, a position Eicken has held as an interim appointee since March of 2015. Eicken is a professor of geophysics whose research focuses on sea ice and its effects on Arctic and global climate systems. He came to UAF in 1998 after 10 years as a student and researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany. He was the 2015 recipient of the Emil Usibelli Distinguished Research Award. Eicken has a degree in mineralogy from the Technical University of Clausthal in Germany and a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Bremen in Germany.