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Thomas Foken: Curriculum Vitae

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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