Natural Disasters
Dr. Marco Bohnhoff
Professor of Geophysics
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
Department Section Geophysics
Malteserstrasse 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
838-70587 ; GFZ Potsdam +49 331 288-1327
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Earthquakes
- Seismic monitoring
- Induced seismicity (geothermal, CO2 storage)
- Fracking
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
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Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Mark Handy
Professor of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
Geology
Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
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Areas of Expertise
- Earthquakes, especially the traces of earthquakes along major fault zones in the Earth’s crust
- Movement of tectonic plates in the Earth today and in a historical perspective
- The formation of mountains
Dr. Ute Luig
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Teutonenstraße 24, 14129 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- HIV/AIDS
- Natural disasters
- Sacred landscapes
- Africa (especially East-Central and West Africa)
- Gender studies
- Rituals
Dr. Christian Reinhardt-Imjela
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geographical Sciences
Applied Geography, Environmental Hydrology, and Resource Management
Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
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Areas of Expertise
- High water / flooding
- Causes of floods
- Management of risks related to floods and low-water
- Modeling and simulation of extreme hydrological situations
Dr. Dirk Scherler
Professor of Earth Sciences
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam
Areas of Expertise
- Processes of the Earth's surface (rivers, slopes, glaciers)
- Landscape development
- Himalayan glaciers
Dr. Achim Schulte
Professor of Physical Geography
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geographical Sciences
Malteserstr. 74-100, Haus H, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
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Areas of Expertise
- Environmental hydrology and resource management
- Drainage extremes (low and high water flow)
- Watershed management
Dr. Serge Shapiro
Professor of Geophysics
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
Geophysics
Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Oil and gas exploration
- Earthquake physics
- Geothermal energy and earthquakes
- Seismology
- Seismic exploration
- Rock physics
Dr. Frederik Tilmann
Professor of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Earthquake seismology
Martin Voss
Professor of Anthropology
Institute for Geographical Sciences
Disaster Research Unit
Malteserstrasse 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
838-72613 (oder über Presse und Kommunikation, Tel. 838-73191)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Disaster research
- Disaster prevention
- Dealing with emergency situations
- Coping with disasters
- Security research
- Climate and environmental change
Dr. Kai Wünnemann
Professor of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences, Planetology, and the Berlin Museum of Natural Sciences
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Meteorite impacts
- Moon
- Asteroids and comets
- Meteorites
- Terrestrial planets
- Tsunamis
- Landslides