Funktion und Aufgaben:

1. Guest at GFZ, Senior Scientist

2. Writing papers

3. Work in national and international stratigraphic commissions

Wissenschaftliche Interessen:

1. Integrative numerical calibration of geological time scales:
- Triassic
- Permian

2. Correlation charts
- Central Europe: Stratigraphic Tables of Germany (Stratigraphische Tabellen von Deutschland)
- Global: Europe, North America, Asia, Australia

Karriere:

Werdegang / Ausbildung:

1966-71 Study of Geology at Humboldt University Berlin and Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald

1971 Diploma in Geology

1974 Dissertation: Secondary orientation of bore cores particularly using  palaeomagnetism (Die nachträgliche Orientierung von Bohrkernen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Paläomagnetismus) at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, PhD (Dr. rer.-nat. )

1973-1991 Central Institute for Physics of the Earth Potsdam (CIPE)

1992-2012 Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)

2013 ff Guest at GFZ, Section 4.3 Climate dynamics and landscape evolution

Projekte:

1. Stratigraphie von Deutschland, long-term project of the German Stratigraphic Commission, 1995 ff
- Papers on magnetostratigraphy and calibration of the geological time scale for volumes: Rotliegend North Germany (1995), Upper Carboniferous (2005), Lower Carboniferous (2006), Rotliegend Variscides (2012), Buntsandstein (2013), Muschelkalk (2019), www.stratigraphie.de/monographie/index.html

2. Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002 und 2016 (STD 2002, STD 2016)
www.stratigraphie.de/std/index.html



5. Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland Kompakt 2012 (STDK 2012)
5. Stratigraphic Table of Germany Compact 2012 (STGC 2012)

Wissenschaftliche Gremien:

1. German Stratigraphic Commission (DSK)
Chairman 2008-2015, Secretary 2000-2003, webesite 2004 ff

2. German Subcommission on Permian-Triassic Stratigraphy (SKPT)
Chairman 2000-2007,  Corresponding Member 1991,  Voting Member 1992 ff

3. German Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (SKS)
Corresponding Member 1991-1995, 2008 ff,  Voting Member 1996-2007

4. International Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy IUGS, Voting Member 1988-2003, Correspoinding Member 2003 ff

5. International Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy IUGS, Voting Member 1998 ff

6. International Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy IUGS, Corresponding Member 1992 ff

7. International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, Voting Member 2003 ff

8. IGCP Commission of Germany 1990-2018

9. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften DGG (Geologie)  - Beirat 2011-2013

Auszeichnungen:

2014: Serge-von-Bubnoff-Medaille der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (DGG)