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Steffen M. Noe
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Steffen M. Noe
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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 19 September 2019, Dr. Steffen Manfred Noe is a distinguished German-born Estonian ecosystem and atmospheric scientist whose work has contributed significantly to the development of integrated ecosystem–atmosphere observation in the Baltic region. Born on 10 August 1966, he received his Dr. rer. nat. in Germany and began his research career at Darmstadt University before moving to Estonia in 2004 as a Marie Curie Fellow to join the research group of Professor Ülo Niinemets at the University of Tartu. In 2008, he joined the Estonian University of Life Sciences, where he currently serves as Senior Scientist at the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Coordinator of the SMEAR Estonia station. Under his leadership, the Järvselja research infrastructure developed from an initial 20-metre measurement tower established in 2008 into a 130-metre atmospheric observation mast inaugurated in 2015. The resulting SMEAR Estonia station has become an important component of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), the ACTRIS aerosol research infrastructure, and the ICOS greenhouse-gas observation network, while also providing a platform for international scientific training and collaboration.

Dr. Noe’s research has focused on the exchange of greenhouse gases, reactive trace gases, and aerosols between hemiboreal forest ecosystems and the atmosphere, with particular emphasis on biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions, carbonyl sulfide (COS) fluxes, and the modelling of forest ecosystem dynamics under environmental stress. By integrating eddy-covariance measurements, plant physiological experiments, and complex-systems modelling, he has investigated how factors including drought, elevated CO₂, and insect herbivory modify biosphere–atmosphere interactions across scales ranging from individual leaves to forest landscapes. He has authored 49 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 16 and more than 750 citations, and has supervised doctoral and master’s researchers in Estonia, Finland, and the wider Nordic–Baltic region. His selected works examine COS exchange across European ecosystems, the effects of gall-forming insects on global BVOC emissions, the relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary productivity, aerosol effects on solar radiation and forest productivity, and seasonal variations in reactive trace gases over hemiboreal forests. Collectively, these contributions demonstrate a sustained research programme linking process-based ecosystem science with long-term atmospheric observation and the assessment of climate and environmental change in northern Eurasia.