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 |