Born in 1983. Author and co-author of over 115 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). He has been involved in more than a dozen airborne field campaigns and three different satellite science teams. He is a member of multiple science advisory boards and academy committees, including the Integrated Carbon Observing System ICOS – a European-wide greenhouse gas research infrastructure –, the US-American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space, and the public-private partnership Carbon Mapper Inc.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 2013, Eric Kort was a W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He completed his SM and PhD degrees in applied physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his BA in Physics at Pomona College in Pomona, California. Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto Hahn Institute) since February 2026.