DIPLOM-GEOÖKOLOGE  (UNIV.)
date  of birth: 5th February 1978 (Schorndorf)
E-mail:  kh.knorr@uni-muenster.de
Education
University of Bayreuth
2005-2008 PhD studies at the  Department of Hydrology: Carbon, iron and sulfur-turnover in a temperate  fen
 
 
1999-2005 Diploma studies in  Geoecology; Main subjects hydrology, soil science, soil physics and agro  ecology
 
2004-2005 Diploma thesis (in english): Influence of groundwater inflow conditions on the biogeochemical processes in acidic and iron rich sediments
ETH Zürich
2002/2003 Exchange student in  winter term 02/03 at the ETH Zürich; studies in environmental sciences
 
Scholarships and Awards
10/2007 Bernd Rendel-Award of the  German National Science Foundation (DFG)
 
2000-2004 Full Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
2002-2003 Sholarship for exchange  stay at the ETH Zürich for one term (German National Academic  Foundation)
 
Work  experience
 
since 03/2013 Research Associate at  the ILÖK, WWU Münster, Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry Group
02/2009 - 2/2013 Research Associate at the Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth
08/2008 - 01/2009 Research  Associate at the BayCEER Laboratory for Isotope Biogeochemistry (Prof.  Dr. G. Gebauer)
 
03/2005 - 07/2008 Research Associate at the Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth, in the DFG Research Project BL563/7-2 , DFG Research Group FOR 562 (Soil Processes under extreme meteorological boundary conditions)
Further qualifications and activities
Member of the Scientific Board of the Annual Meeting of the German Limnological Society
Reviewing for international Journals (Applied Geochemistry, Acta Hydrochimica et Hydrobiologica, Biogeosciences, Contaminant Hydrology, Environmental Science and Technology, Hydrobiologia, Biogeochemistry, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
Member of the examination board of the Bachelor and Master studies in Geoecology
Member of international societies: American Geophysical Union (AGU), Geochemical Society (GS), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL), Deusche Gesellschaft für Moor und Torfkunde (DGMT)