Detlef Wolf (geodesist)

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Detlef Wolf (born July 18, 1951 , † February 11, 2013 in Potsdam ) was a German geodesist and geophysicist . From 2001 to 2012 he was professor for systems theory and modeling at the Geodetic Institute of the University of Stuttgart and a research assistant at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam .

Life

Wolf studied geosciences and completed his habilitation in 1993 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster on the subject of Gravitational viscoelastodynamics for a hydrostatic planet as a Dr. rer. nat. Until 1995, Wolf worked as a private lecturer at the University of Münster in the DFG-funded graduate school "Origin and Development of the Solar System". He then moved to the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam and took over the project area (later Section) 1.4 Systems Theory and Modeling in the task area 1 Kinematics and Dynamics of the Earth , headed by Christoph Reigber . From 2001 to 2012 Wolf also took over the professorship for systems theory and modeling at the Geodetic Institute of the University of Stuttgart . Detlef Wolf retired in summer 2012 for personal reasons.

On the evening of February 11, 2013, he died of a stab wound in a friend's apartment. At the time of death, both were under the influence of heavy alcohol.

research

Detlef Wolf was mainly concerned with the earth's gravitational field. The subjects of his work included a. the deformations of the globe, plate tectonics, volcanism and climate change.

He had been a member of the German Geophysical Society (DGG) e. V.

Publications

  • Gravitational viscoelastodynamics for a hydrostatic planet (habilitation thesis), Beck, Munich 1997
  • together with Zdeněk Martinec: Explicit form of the propagator matrix for a multi-layered, incompressible viscoelastic sphere , Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam 1998
  • together with Malte Thoma: Determination of the mantle viscosity from observations of the uplift and gravity in Fennoscandia , Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam 1999
  • together with Jan M. Hagedoorn; Jürgen Neumeyer: Modeling of atmospheric influences on high-precision gravity measurements with the help of elastic earth models , Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam 2000
  • Continuum mechanics in geophysics and geodesy: fundamental principles , Geodetic Institute, University of Stuttgart, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131004220600/http://trauer.tagesspiegel.de/files/pdf/20130220/20130220__22545520_1.pdf
  2. ↑ Final report ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Historical information about the institute ( Memento from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Potsdam/Betrunkener-Professor-stirbt-an-Stichverletzung
  5. ↑ http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236116221_Deformation_and_Gravity_Change_Indicators_of_Isostasy_Tectonics_Volcanism_and_Climate_Change_Volume_III._Introduction
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1951
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2013
Place of death Potsdam