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Institute of Soil Science

Photo: Christina Steffens, UHH, Institut für Bodenkunde

Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach

Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach

Photo: Lars Kutzbach

Professor for Soils in the Climate System

Address

University of Hamburg
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg

Office

AP2
Room: 304a

Office hours

  • by arrangement

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-2021

Curriculum Vitae

since 2015 Professor of "Soils in the climate system" at the Institute for Soil Science at Hamburg University
2009 Junior professorship at Hamburg University, Institute of Soil Science
Head of the CliSAP Research Group "Regional Hydrology in Terrestrial Systems", Cluster of Excellence "Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction"
2006 PhD at Hamburg University, Department of Earth Sciences
Topic: The Exchange of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide between Wet Arctic Tundra and the Atmosphere at the Lena River Delta, Northern Siberia
2005 - 2008 Scientific assistant at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology
2000 - 2005 PhD-Project at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research and Oceanography, Potsdam
2000 Diploma Biology, Hamburg University
Topic: "Die Bedeutung der Vegetation und bodeneigener Parameter für die Methanflüsse in Permafrostböden"

Research Focus

  • The pedosphere in the climate system
  • Element cycling at boundary layers of the earth system (collaboration with CEN)
  • Regional hydrology in terrestrial systems (CliSAP-project)
  • Landscape-atmospheres and lateral material flows in permafrost (EU-project PAGE21, BMBF-projects CarboPerm, KoPf & MOMENT)
  • Landscape development and nutrient cycle of permafrost in climate change (DFG-project POLYGON)
  • Hydrology, carbon and nutrient cycle of marshland at boreal, temperate and Mediterranean climatic zones (CliSAP flexible pool project, DAAD projectbased person exchange with Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Almeriá, Spain)
  • New statistic proceedings for amplitude optimized paleo climate reconstructions of chronological high-resolution, noisy proxy data (DFG-project)

Teaching

Lectures

  • Global biogeochemical cycling and the climate system (Lecture with practice; 4 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-1.2.; together with Jens Hartmann)
  • Soil, water and vegetation processes and their coupling to the atmosphere (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.3., M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK2.2; together with Christian Knoblauch)
  • Permafrost soils and landscapes in the climate system (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-3.3, M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK1.1; together with Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
  • Using the eddy covariance approach for analysing land-atmosphere fluxes of energy and matter (Lecture with program practice; 2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-3.3, M.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-M-BK1.1; together with Norman Rößger)

Courses

Work Experiences, Practice, Field Trips

  • Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen: Böden der Hahnheide (2 SWS; B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-1.2; together with Christian Knoblauch, Claudia Fiencke)
  • Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen: Böden vor der Haustür (2 SWS; B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-3.4; together with Claudia Fiencke, David Holl und Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
  • Bodenkundliche Geländeübungen: Böden der Küstenniederungen (2 SWS; B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-3.1; together with Andreas Hadenfeldt)
  • Praktikum und Seminar: Geowissenschaftliches Studienprojekt (B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-5.2; together with Annette Eschenbach, Eva-Maria Pfeiffer and other lecturers)
  • Geowissenschaftliche Abschluss-Exkursion Erzgebirge / Ötztal (4 SWS, B.Sc. Geoscience GeoW-B-6.1; together with Eva-Maria Pfeiffer)
  • Field Course on Soil-Atmosphere Coupling (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.3; together with Olga Vybornova)
  • Geländeübungen und Seminar: Soils and Land Use of Wetlands (2 SWS; M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences ICSS-M-2.3; together with Andreas Hadenfeldt)

Further Duties and Activities

University activities

  •  Managing Director of the Institute of Soil Science
  •  Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS)
  •  Co-Leadership of CLICCS Research Topic A: Climate Sensitivity and Variability in the Climate System
  •  Co-Leadership of CLICCS Research Topic A1: Carbon Dynamics in the Arctic
  •  Co-coordinator of the research focus "Material Cycles at Interfaces in the Earth System" of the Centre for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)
  • Leader of the subproject 3: “Effects of permafrost thawing and formation on the methane fluxes in heterogeneous tundra landscapes” of the BMBF-project “MOMENT”
  •  Head of the Quality Circle for the study programmes Earth Sciences (B.Sc./M.Sc./B.A. NF) and Integrated Climate System Sciences (M.Sc.)
  •  Spokesperson of the teaching area "Biogeochemistry of the Climate System" of the international study programme M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences
  •  Chair for Ph.D. Advisory Panels in various graduate schools (over 20 so far)

 

Additional activities

Publications