Prof. Dr. Ulrich Achatz
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Curriculum Vitae |
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Date and Place of Birth | October 31, 1963, in Munich |
Citizenship | German |
Marital Status | married, two children |
University Education |
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1982-1984 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Physics, Vordiplom) |
1984-1985 | University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA (Physics, Fulbright Fellowship) |
1985-1992 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Physics and Astronomy) |
1989 | Diploma in physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Thesis Stability of electron/positron jets in active galactic nuclei in German) |
1992 | PhD in astronomy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Thesis Dispersive electromagnetic plasma waves and their influence on the transport of charged particles in thermal astrophysical plasmas) |
2006 | Habilitation at the Universität Rostock (Thesis Modal and nonmodal instabilities of gravity waves in rotating Boussinesq fluids: Linear and nonlinear dynamics) |
Positions held |
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1989-1993 | Research assistant, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany |
1993-1996 | Postdoc, Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik an der Universität Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany |
1996-2007 | Senior scientist (tenure), Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik an der Universität Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany |
1998-1999 | Visiting scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, Netherlands |
2007 | Privatdozent (roughly equivalent to a lecturer), Physics Department, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany |
since 2007 | Professor (Theory of Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate) at the Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt, Geosciences/Geography Department, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt |
Memberships
- Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft (DMG)
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)