Prof. Dr. Christian Beer
Photo: Christian Beer
Professor for Dynamics of Soil Processes
Address
University of Hamburg
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Office
AP2
Room: 301
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838-2699
Secretary's office
Curriculum Vitae
| 2019 - | Professor for Dynamics of Soil Processes, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 2015 | Docent in Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 2013-2019 | Associate Professor for Climate-related Biogeochemical Modeling, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 2012-2013 | Research group leader, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany |
| 2006-2012 | Research Scientist, Biogeochemical Model-Data Integration Group, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany |
| 2005-2006 | Post-Doc, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L'Environnement (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| 2005 | Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany |
| 2002-2005 | Research associate, Department of Earth Observation, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. Topic: Simulation of the Central Siberian carbon balance using a permafrost-advanced and satellite data-constrained DGVM |
| 2002 | First state exam (Chemistry, Mathematics, Pedagogics), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany |
Research and Working Focuses
- Global carbon cycle and climate interactions
- Soil processes and land-atmosphere interactions of permafrost-affected ecosystems
- Permafrost carbon-climate feedback
- Interactions of extreme climate events with terrestrial ecosystem processes
Teaching
BSc Geowissenschaften
- 63-211 Genese, Diversität und Funktion von Böden (together with Lars Kutzbach)
- 63-212 Konzepte der Boden- und Ökosystem-Modellierung
- 63-211 Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen
- 63-266 Übungen zur Boden- und Ökosystemmodellierung
MSc Integrated System Sciences or MSc Geowissenschaften
- 63-863 Dynamics of land-atmosphere interactions
- 63-313 Dynamic modelling of ecosystem processes
- 63-320 Permafrost soils and landscapes in the climate system (together with Lars Kutzbach)
- 63-323 Practicals on dynamic ecosystem modelling
- 63-949 Seminar on integrated climate system sciences
Academic leadership
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Head of the study programme M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences (ICSS) and its examination board
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Spokesperson of the joint project MOMENT funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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Chair of the CLICCS ABC-X project (together with Jana Sillmann and Achim Oberg)