Dr. Alexander Rudloff
Function and Responsibilities:
- Head Helmholtz-Affairs | Executive Board (since 2021)
- Programme Manager PoF IV "Changing Earth - Sustaining Our Future" (since 2019)
- Secretary General of IUGG - International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (2019-2027)
- Executive Secretary of GEO*8 "European Alliance for Earth Sciences" (2015-2024)
- Board Member of German Commitee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) e.V. (2019-2022)
Research Interests:
- Earthquakes: Major and Damaging EQ Worldwide, EQ in Germany, Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis, Engineering Seismology, Historical Records
- Tsunami: Dissemination, Formation, Early Warning, Worldwide Occurence, Historical Records
- Geodynamics: Subduction Zones; with Special Interest on Europe/Mediterranean, Indonesia, South America
- Geoenergy: Geothermal, CO2- and H2-Underground Storage
Career:
since 1/2016 | Staff Member of the Scientific Executive Director at GFZ
8/2007 until 12/2015 | Staff Member of the Scientific Executive Board at GFZ
8/2005 until 7/2007 | Member of Project Management GITEWS; „German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System“, GFZ Potsdam
Education:
1/1998 | Dr. rer. nat (Ph.D.) in Geosciences at Free University of Berlin
4/1986 until 7/1993 | Studies of Geophysics, Geology and Minerology at Free University of Berlin, Degree: Diploma Geophysics (M.Sc.)
7/1984 | Abitur (A-levels) at Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Main
Projects:
ASTARTE (EU-FP7)| WP7 "Early Warning and Forecast" (2013-2017)
GeoEn (BMBF) | WP Coordination (2008-2013)
GITEWS (BMBF) | WP Project Management (2005-2011) and System Integration (2007-2011)
Field surveys:
11/2005 | SO186 - Leg1 with RV Sonne, Sumatra/Indonesia (GITEWS)
9/1997 until 11/1997 | PUNA ´97 - Seismological Network, NE-Argentina (SFB 267, San Antonio de los Cobres)
8/1995 until 10/1995 | CINCA ´95 - Seismological Network, N-Chile (SFB 267 & Task-Force Earthquakes, Antofagasta)
1/1994 until 5/1994 | PISCO ´94 - Seismological Network, N-Chile (SFB 267, San Pedro de Atacama)
Research Boards and Committees:
from July 2007 until December 2019 | Executive Secretary of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP), Head of ILP Office at GFZ
from March 2003 until March 2015 | Treasurer of the Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft (DGG) e.V., Board member of DGG
Awards:
2020 | GFZ-Special price as member of the Corona crisis team
2015 | GFZ-Price for Science Management
2000 | "Best Poster Award" of the German Geophysical Society (DGG) e.V.