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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reinhard F. J. Hüttl

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Staff Scientific Executive Board

Telegrafenberg, G 309
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1010
Fax: +49 331 288 1002
Mail: reinhard.huettl@gfz-potsdam.de

Career:

1978 - 1983 Forest/Soil Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University (ALU), Freiburg, Germany and Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
1984 - 1985 Research assistant, Institute of Soil Science, ALU, Freiburg, Germany
(Doctorate Degree: April 1986)
01/1986-12/1992 Head of International Research Department, Mining Company
Kali & Salz AG/BASF-group, Kassel, Germany and postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Soil Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
01/1987-12/1990 Scientific Advisor, World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., USA
08/1990-07/1991 Assistant Professor, Honolulu, USA, University of Hawaii,
Chair of Geobotany
07/1991 Habilitation at Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany (Professorial Degree)
01/1992-08/1995 Head of Institute of Forest Ecology at Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Eberswalde, Germany
since January 1993 Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation, Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), Cottbus, Germany
10/1993-04/2000 Vice-president of the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

since June 1995
Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
(former Prussian Academy of Sciences)
03/1996-02/2000 Member of the Environmental Council of the German Government
04/1996-03/2003 President of the German Soil Association
02/2000- 01/2006 Member of the German Science Council, since January 2003 Chairman of the Scientific Commission of the German Science Council
03/2004 Honorary doctorate (Dr. h. c.) of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
04/2005- 09/2008 Vice-president of acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering
since January 2006 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
since October 2006 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
since March 2007 Scientific Advisor for the Climate Protection Strategy of the German Federal Minister of Education and Research
since June 2007 Scientific Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of the German Research Centre for Geosciences – GFZ, Potsdam
 since July 2007 Director of the collaborative research programme “Transregio” (SFB/TRR) 38 “Structures and processes of the initial ecosystem development in an artificial watershed“ at BTU Cottbus ( supported by the German Science Foundation)
10/2008 Award of the Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
since October 2008 President of acatech - the German Academy of Science and Engineering
since January 2011 Vice President of the Helmholtz Association
since January 2011 Chairman of the Board of the innovation cluster Energy Technology Berlin-Brandenburg
since March 2011 Member of the Ethics Committee "Secure Energy Supply" of the Federal Government


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