Bernhard Eitel

Bernhard Eitel ( born August 31, 1959 in Karlsruhe ) is a German geographer and geoscientists. He's since October 1, 2007 Rector of the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.

Life

After visiting the schools in Haslach (1966-1969) and Gengenbach (1969-1979), he completed his high school education in 1979; He was awarded the bushel price. After completing his military service in Nagold and Münsingen 1979/1980 he studied from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Karlsruhe ( TH) Geography and German. From 1986 to 1989 he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Geography and Geoecology at the University of Karlsruhe (TH ), 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Geography, University of Stuttgart. He was at the University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, 1989, at Wolf Dieter Bluemel with the work morphogenesis in southern Kraichgau with special consideration of tertiary and Pleistocene cover sediments. A contribution to the history of the landscape of southwestern Germany PhDs. During his tenure as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography, University of Stuttgart (1989-1995) he habilitated in 1994 in physical geography teaching with a dissertation Calcareous cover sediments and Kalkkrustengenerationen in Namibia: On the question of the origin and mobilization of calcium carbonate.

In 1995 he was appointed professor at the University of Passau as Professor of Physical Geography. In 2001 he moved to the Chair of Physical Geography at the Ruprecht -Karls -Universität Heidelberg (successor Dieter perch). Since 2002, he has held various deaneries, since 2006 he is Associate Dean ( for Geosciences ) of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences. He leads the formerly spatially at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics -based Luminescense.

Bernhard Eitel is married and has two children. Since 1981 he is a member of the Catholic Student Association KDStV Normannia Karlsruhe Cartellverband the Catholic German student fraternities (CV).

In 2011 he was appointed Commandeur dans l' Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Work

He is a student of Alfred Wirth man and Wolf Dieter Bluemel. His main scientific interests lie in the soil geography, Quartärgeomorphologie and geoarchaeology. Furthermore, he is considered an expert on the geography of Peru and France. Bernhard Eitel is also regarded as a natural scientist with a strong penchant for humanities and social sciences.

His journalistic priorities ranging from geomorphology of the Quaternary and dryland research to geoarchaeology and geographically from the deserts of the Southern Hemisphere to the Arctic.

Eitel is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the AK geomorphology since 1994 ( German Working Group for Geomorphology in the DGfG eV ), whose Board member 1994-2002 and Chairman, 2002 to 2006. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Heidelberger Geographical Society, whose chairman from 2002 to 2004th he is also a member of the Executive Commission of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG ), a member of the IGCP 500 management Group and a member of the Heidelberg isotopes Club. He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech), the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (since 2010) and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute ( DAI).

He is co-editor of the Journal of Geomorphology ( = Annals of Geomorphology / Annales de geomorphology ), the journal GEOÖKO and Heidelberger Geography work.

In the course of the student strike in 2009 and emerged from the occupation of the Rectorate of the University of Heidelberg by scholars, students and doctoral candidates Eitel was criticized. So he was not able to convince the students of a voluntary abandonment of the building, and let the Rector after four days of occupation evacuate by the police. The students threw Eitel et al right not to be received on their concrete demands and to have been denied a constructive dialogue. So Eitel have personally asked only once to students during the occupation. Many students and teachers also distanced themselves from the decision in connection Eitel to Evacuate the Rectorate.

During his tenure, the University of Heidelberg was successful in both rounds of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments in all three funding lines.

Honorary Appointments

• Inter alia, Member of the Board of the " future metropolitan region Rhein-Neckar ".

Writings

• Soil Geography. 4th edition. Westermann, 1999, ISBN 3-14-160281-6.
• Holocene Landscape Development and Geoarchaelogical Research. Borntraeger 2006, ISBN 3-443-21142-9.
• Joachim Eberle, Wolf D. Blumel: Germany's south - from the Mesozoic to the present. Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 3-8274-1506-3.