Doctoral programme in Ecology and Environmental Research
in BayNAT
Thomas Foken: Curriculum Vitae
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken |
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Education |
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09.1970 - 08.1974 |
study of meteorology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Dipl. Meteorologist |
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01.1978 |
Dr. rer. nat., University of Leipzig |
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07.1990 |
Dr. sc. nat., Humboldt-University of Berlin |
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Employment |
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01.1978 - 08.1981 |
scientific worker, Meteorological Service of the GDR, Main Meteorological Observatory Potsdam |
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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) |
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05.1994 - 09.1997 |
Head of the Boundary-layer and Land surface processes Department, German Weather Service, Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg |
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10.1997 - 09.2014 |
Professor of Micrometeorology, University Bayreuth |
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Important expeditions |
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1975 and 1976 |
Caspian Sea/Aserb. (KASPEX-75,76) |
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1981 |
Cimlijansk/Russia (MESP-81) |
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1988 |
Kursk/Russia (KUREX-88) |
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1990 |
Tartu/Estonia (TARTEX-90) |
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1994 |
Uppsala/Sweden (NOPEX) |
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1994 |
Neumayer/Antarctica (FINTUREX) |
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1998 |
Lindenberg/Germany (BALTEX) |
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2000 |
Fresno/USA (EBEX-2000) |
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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 |