The ESSL team are sad to have received the news of the passing away of Prof Dr Robert Sausen.

Robert Sausen, Deputy Director of the DLR Institute for Atmospheric Physics, has been a crucial supporter of ESSL in the years after its founding. He served as the first Chair of the ESSL Advisory Council from 2008 until 2015, supporting ESSL in countless ways. In those days, his support of ESSL, being the legacy of Nikolai Dotzek, was crucial.

We are very grateful to him and wish his wife, family, friends, former colleagues, and others close to him strength to cope with this loss.

A longer obituary can be found on the website of DLR:
https://www.dlr.de/en/pa/latest/news/2025/prof-robert-sausen