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Prof. Dr. (i.R.) Ulrich Anton Glasmacher

Institut für Geowissenschaften
Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, Raum 202
D-69120 Heidelberg

E-Mail: ulrich.a.glasmacher@geow.uni-heidelberg.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 6221 54-4866
Cell phone: +49-(0)152-09340761
Fax: +49-(0)6221-54-5503

http://www.thermo-archaeo.uni-hd.de/

Summary:

Apl.-Professor and member of the status group Professor at Heidelberg University
Venia Legendi for Mineralogy and Geology
Radiation, X-ray, and Laser Safety officer
Active or was active in various national and international organizations
Research with fast and thermal neutrons and accelerated ions and
Heavy ions to solve:
1) regional geological issues (Europe, Russia, Africa, South America)
2) basic research with matter under extreme conditions
3) dating of processes
Research on the sustainable use of resources
Research in German and Brazilian salt deposits
PhD examination authorization in physics and geosciences at the Heidelberg University
Organization of national and international workshops, sessions and symposia
Geoscientific public relations work in child and adult education
Support and development of thermochronological laboratories in the Czech Republic, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina
More than 100 publications in international peer-reviewed journals
Dealing with a-, b- and g-emitters for dating geological processes

Scientific Career and Education:

since 2017 Member of the Status Group of University-Professors at the Heidelberg University
since 2017 Member of the APPA R&D-Research Group at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
since 2014 Member of the Executive Board of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment
since 2009 Professorship, Heidelberg University
since 2008 Member of the Research Group Leader Board of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University and research group leader “Thermochronology and Archaeometry”, Institute of Earth Sciences
2005-2008 Research group leader “Thermochronology and Archaeometry, Geologisches und Paläontologische Institut, Heidelberg University
2003 Habilitation: Venia legendi Mineralogy and Geology, Heidelberg University
1999-2005 Postdoc and senior scientist at the Forschungsstelle Archäometrie der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (FAHADW), and the Max-Planck- Institute of Nuclear Sciences; Heidelberg
1997-1999 Research stipendia DFG at the Forschungsstelle Archäometrie der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (FAHADW), Heidelberg
1996-1997 Visiting research professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
1991-1996 Assistant Professor, RWTH Aachen
1986-1990 Dr. rer. nat., excellent; RWTH Aachen
1978-1985 Geology, RWTH Aachen, Germany

COORDINATING FUNCTIONS

since 2020 Chair of the Examination committee of the Bachelor Geowissenschaften
since 2019 Member and representative oft the Institute of Earth Sciences in the “Baden- Württemberg Research Center of Geothermal Energy” (LZFG) at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
since 2019 Chair of the Faculty Commission “State-Gradate-Program”
since 2019 Laser Safety Manager
since 2017 Member of the APPA R&D-Research Group at GSI Helmholtzzentrum Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
since 2005 Radiation Safety Manager
since 2013 Member and steering committee member of the Executive Committee of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment
2007-2016 Steering committee: DFG Priority Program 1375 “SAMPLE”
2006-2014 Steering committee: DFG research group “RiftLink” 703
since 2004 Steering committee: International Fission-Track Community
2002-2007 Speaker of the material sciences community of the user group at Helmholtz Institution Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung GSI, Darmstadt
2000-2005 Vicechair of the Forschungsstelle Archäometrie der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften at the Max-Planck Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Heidelberg.

ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS, SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA (last ten years):

2018: DFG-Priority Program Rundgespräch “Move-On”
Since 2006: European Geosciences Union (EGU) Each year one or more Sessions
2018: 50 Years of Plate Tectonics: Move-On at GEO-Bonn in Bonn.
2017: 8th German-Brazilian Symposium on Sustainable Development, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2017: Plate Tectonic and passive Margins Session at GEO-Bremen in Bremen.
2015: 7th German-Brazilian Symposium on Sustainable Development, Heidelberg.
2015: South Atlantic Session at the GEO-Berlin in Berlin
2015: Santander Summer School: Arising Awareness: Sustainable Development of human society within the frame of planet Earth, Heidelberg.
2015: Accelerated Ion workshop, Material Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Geosciences, Heidelberg.
2014: South Atlantic Session at the annual meeting of the GV in Frankfurt
2014: ICDP-Workshop in Rio de Janeiro; Drilling in the South Atlantic crust
2013: Session on the evolution of the South Atlantic at the Geological Congress of Brazil, Santos, Brazil
2013: Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program 1375 “SAMPLE”, Heidelberg
2011: Workshop on Opportunities in Geoscience and Geotechnology; Santos, Brazil

Participation in Delegation Tours and Fares as representative for Germany, Baden- Württemberg, and University Heidelberg:

2017: Sustainable development, Brazil
2016: SPBC, Brazil
2015: BMBF, Int. Office, Marine Science and Institutes in Brazil
2013: SPBC, Brazil
2012: SPBC, Brazil
2011: Delegation tour Argentina and Brazil; Ministry of Baden Württemberg
2011: SPBC, Brazil

REVIEWER (regularly)

Science Organizations: AvH-Foundation, BMBF, Carl Zeiss Stiftung, DFG, ESF, FAPESP, NSF-USA, NSF-Canada,
Journals: AAPG, AJGS, AJHC, Am. Bull., Am. Min., Bas. Res., Clay Min., CRGeosc., ECOLIND, EPSL; Geology, Geology and Mining, Gondw. Res., IJAES, IJES, J. Petrol, JAES, JMPG, Luminescence, NIM-B, PCMI, Rad. Meas., Tectonics, Tectonophys.

SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

Member of numerous thesis advisory committees (Earth Sciences, Geography, Physics) International reviewer of Ph.D. theses (Australia, Brazil, France, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Swiss)
Actually supervising 7 doctoral theses in the field of thermochronology and long-term landscape evolution (Azerbaijan, Brazil, NW-Namibia); heavy-ion irradiation of matter at extreme high pressure and temperature; calcite as a new thermochronological archive, salt tectonics and gas content.

SUPERVISED DISSERTATIONS (in Heidelberg):

all summa cum or magna cum laude
Daniela Oestreich (2020), Florian Krob (2020), Nicole Schöppner (2017), Sherif Mansur (2015), Sebastian Dedera (2015), Sebastian Kollenz (2015), Manuel Sehrt (2014), Markus Heidak (2013), René Grobe (2011), Christian Weikusat (2010), Friederike Bauer (2007)

SUPERVISED DIPLOMA, BACHELOR, AND MASTER THESIS

Regularly each year up to seven theses

TEACHING (Heidelberg):

Bausteine der Erde (Rocks of Planet Earth), Geologie Europas (Geology of Europe), Georessourcen (Georessourcen), Thermochronologie und langzeitliche Landschaftentwicklung (Thermochronology and long-term landscape evolution), Endogene und exogene Lagerstätten (Ore deposits), Erzpetrographie (Ore petrology), 2 Geländeübungen (4 tägig, 2 tägig) (field courses), Geländekurs: Methoden der Geowissenschaften im Gelände

Research Focus:

A) Long-term landscape evolution Palaeoclimate including evolution, Numerical simulation of heat flow thru time and long-term landscape evolution, Thermochronology, Dating of processes (ore forming) and ore deposits, Fission-Track, (U-Th-Sm)/He, K-Ar, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar
B) Material Sciences with accelerated heavy ions; Construction and building of experimental equipment such as spectroscopy and high pressure equipment, Raman- and UV-C (266nm) stimulated Spectrometry
C) Petrology and Geochemistry of ore deposits, sedimentary rocks (salt),
D) Archaeometry. Petrography and geochemistry of artifacts, pottery, and ceramics

RESEARCH FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS:

DFG, BMBF, DAAD, WTZ, Companies, BWi- Ministry, CONICET, State financial support from Brazil and Argentine

PUBLICATION:

More than 100 publications in peer-reviewed International Journals

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