John P. Burrows

John Philip Burrows (born 16 August 1954) He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1975 followed by a PhD in 1978 for research investigating free radical reactions by laser magnetic resonance supervised by Brian Arthur Thrush.

Career Following his PhD, Burrows was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1979 to 1982 he worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) in Harwell followed by ten years at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. He was appointed a professor at the University of Bremen in 1992 where he has worked since.

Research Burrows' research biogeochemistry and climate change. He and his co-workers have studied the kinetics and spectroscopy of key atmospheric free radicals and gases, developed innovative in situ trace atmospheric measurement techniques, and pioneered the passive remote sensing of atmospheric constituents and surface parameters. Working closely with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, he initiated and led scientifically the SCIAMACHY project, which resulted in the satellite based measurements of the instruments Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on ESA ERS-2 (1995–2011), SCIAMACHY on ESA Envisat (2002 -2012), GOME-2 on EUMETSAT Metop Series (2006–2022), and the concepts GeoSCIA/GeoTROPE, now developed as European Union Copernicus Programme Sentinel 4, and CarbonSat/CarbonSat Constellation.