| Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken | |
| Education | |
| 09.1970 - 08.1974 | study of meteorology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Dipl. Meteorologist | 
| 01.1978 | Dr. rer. nat., University of Leipzig | 
| 07.1990 | Dr. sc. nat., Humboldt-University of Berlin | 
| Employment | |
| 01.1978 - 08.1981 | scientific worker, Meteorological Service of the GDR, Main Meteorological Observatory Potsdam | 
| 09.1981 - 04.1994 | Head of the Boundary-layer and Turbulence Department, Meteorological Service of the GDR, Main Meteorological Observatory Potsdam (from 10.1990 German Weather Service) | 
| 05.1994 - 09.1997 | Head of the Boundary-layer and Land surface processes Department, German Weather Service, Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg | 
| 10.1997 - 09.2014 | Professor of Micrometeorology, University Bayreuth | 
| Important expeditions | |
| 1975 and 1976 | Caspian Sea/Aserb. (KASPEX-75,76) | 
| 1981 | Cimlijansk/Russia (MESP-81) | 
| 1988 | Kursk/Russia (KUREX-88) | 
| 1990 | Tartu/Estonia (TARTEX-90) | 
| 1994 | Uppsala/Sweden (NOPEX) | 
| 1994 | Neumayer/Antarctica (FINTUREX) | 
| 1998 | Lindenberg/Germany (BALTEX) | 
| 2000 | Fresno/USA (EBEX-2000) | 
| 2003 | Lindenberg/Germany (LITFASS-2003) | 
| 2007 | Black Forest/Germany (COPS) | 
| 2007, 2008, 2011 | Waldstein/Germany (EGER- IOP-1, 2, 2) | 
| 2008, 2010 | NamCo/China-Tibet (TiP - CEOP-AEGIS) | 
| 2010, 2012 | Kema/China-Tibet (TiP) | 
| Awards | |
| 1999 | Dionyz Stur medal in silver of the Slovak Academy of Science | 
| 2012 | Norbert Gerbier-MUMM Award for 2012 for the paper Yi et al. (ca. 150 authors) Enivironmental Research Letters, 5, 034007 (2010) | 
| 2013 | AMS 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Biometeorology | 
| 2013 | Honour badge of the VDI | 
| 2014 | Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Meteorological Society |