Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heimhofer
30167 Hannover
Research Interests
- Stable isotope geochemistry and chemostratigraphy of sedimentary rocks
- Deposition and preservation of particulate organic matter
- Stratigraphic palynology and plant evolution
- Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography of the Mesozoic
Curriculum Vitae
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Academic career
Since 2011
Professor for Geology at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)2006 - 2011
Juniorprofessor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)2004 - 2006
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)2004
Doctoral degree in Geology at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) -
University degrees
2004
Doctoral degree in Earth Sciences, Eidgenössisch-Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)1999
Diploma in Geology/Palaeontology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg -
Awards
2009
Hermann-Credner-Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften2008 - 2011
Member of the Junges Kolleg of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste -
Academic Services
Since 2018
Member of the managing board of the Forschungszentrum GEO at LUHSince 2016
Member of the advisory board of the Technischen Informationsbibliothek TIBSince 2015
Member of the advisory board of the DGGVSince 2015
Speaker Fachsektion SEDIMENTOLOGIE of the DGGVSince 2014
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Ambassador for GermanySince 2014
Advisory Board for the journal “Cretaceous Research”2017 - 2019
Elected Member of the faculty board (Faculty of Natural Sciences) LUH2014 - 2016
Director of the Institute for Geology at LUH2009 - 2015
EGU Secretary of the Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Paleontology division2007 - 2015
Member of the “Subkommission für Kreidestratigraphie” of the DSK
Lectures
- Regionale Geologie von Deutschland
- Labor-Praktikum Stabile Isotope
- Paläo-Umwelt Rekonstruktion mittels geochemischer Proxies
- System Erde III
- Grundlagen der Karbonatsedimentologie Geländepraktikum
- Geochemie II (VL)
- Geochemie II (Ü)
- Grundlagen der Karbonatsedimentologie
- System Erde II
- System Erde II Übung - Gruppe A
- System Erde II Übung - Gruppe B
- Tutorium System Erde II
- Seminar Stabile Isotope
- Große geowissenschaftliche Exkursion - Subherzynbecken (Schwerpunkt: Beckenentwicklung, Tektonik, Sedimentologie)