Prof. Klaus G. Nickel, PhD (Co-speaker)
TRR 141 Cospeaker
Principal investigator in A02, B01 & B03
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche
Fakultät, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften/
Angewandte Mineralogie
Wilhelmstraße 56
D-72074 Tübingen
Phone: +49 (0) 7071 297-6802
E-mail: klaus.nickel@uni-tuebingen.de
Education
1975 – 1979 Dipl. Geol., Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Lorenz
Scientific degrees
1983 PhD, Geosciences, University of Tasmania (AUS). Advisor: Prof. Dr. David H. Green
Work experience
2006 – 2010 Vice Dean of the Faculty for Geosciences, University of Tübingen
2004 – 2006 Dean of the Faculty for Geosciences, University of Tübingen
1998 – 2002 Director of the Institute for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, University of Tübingen
1991 – current Professor, Universität of Tübingen
1986-1991 Senior researcher and chair for the group for thermal analysis at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research (Stuttgart, F.R.G.), Powdermetalurgical Lab PML, Leader: G. Petzow
1983-1986 Post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, F.R.G.), Department Cosmochemistry, Leader: H. Wänke
Miscellaneous
Vice Chairman of “Competence network biomimetics” Baden-Württemberg, D
Member expert committee „cellular materials“ of German materials science society (DGM)
Member of numerous advisory boards of international conferences
