Dieter Imboden

Dieter M. Imboden (born August 22, 1943 in Zurich ) is a Swiss environmental physicist and science manager. From 2005 to the end of 2012 he was President of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Life

Imboden studied theoretical physics in Berlin and Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on theoretical solid-state physics. Since 1974 he has been an employee of EAWAG (Federal Institute for Water Supply, Wastewater Treatment and Water Protection ) , in 1982 he completed his habilitation at the ETH Zurich with a thesis on the modeling of environmental processes. Since 1988 he has been a full professor of environmental physics at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich, and in 2012 he retired. At times he also conducted research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California and was visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, at MIT and at Caltech. For a long time Imboden's research area was the chemistry and physics of lakes and bodies of water, especially large lakes such as Lake Baikal and the Caspian Sea.

Since 2005 he has been President of the Swiss National Science Foundation . Between 1992 and 1996, Imboden headed the Department of Environmental Sciences at the ETH. From 2009 until the merger in 2011, Imboden was the head of EUROHORCS, the European Heads of Research Councils, an informal association of heads from European science organizations. From January 2013 to December 2015 he was head of the supervisory board of the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF).

From September 2014 to January 2016, Imboden headed the "International Expert Commission for the Evaluation of the Excellence Initiative" (IEKE) on behalf of the German Joint Science Conference (GWK). The commission is sometimes also called the Imboden commission . Other members of the commission were: Elke Lütjen-Drecoll (deputy chairwoman), Swantje Bargmann , Marie-Louise Bech Nosch , Gerhard Casper , Simon Gächter , Christoph Kratky , Klara Nahrstedt , Felicitas Pauss and Daniel Scheidegger . All members of the commission are scientists. The Commission published its final report at the end of January 2016.

Publications (selection)

• (with René Schwarzenbach and Phil Gschwend): "Environmental Organic Chemistry", 1994, extended new edition 2003 and 2017 (received the "Chemistry Book of the Year Award" from the Association of American Publishers in 1994)
• (with Stefan Pfenninger): Introduction to systems analysis: mathematically modeling natural systems , Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-30638-9 .
• (with Sabine Koch): System analysis: Introduction to the mathematical modeling of natural systems , Berlin: Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-43935-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Imboden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Imboden, Dieter, Prof. Dr. Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ. 
• Dieter Imboden: About the power of networking people and ideas. Lecture on the Pact for Research and Innovation. October 28, 2010 . 
• Dieter Imboden. In: FWF testimonials. FWF . 
• Benjamin Haerdle: Evaluation of the Excellence Initiative “Politics has the last word”. Interview with Imboden on the Excellence Initiative. In: duz Magazin 11/14. November 24, 2014 . 
• Ralf Krauter : "Give the universities freedom and time". Interview. DLF, January 29, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Imboden hands over the presidium to Martin Vetterli, press release of the SNSF, December 12, 2012 ( memento of the original of December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Imboden, Dieter, Prof. Dr. Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ Zwischen, accessed on February 6, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Dieter Imboden new head of the supervisory board, notification of the standard January 2013
4. ↑ see for example http://www.helmholtz.de/wissenschaftspektiven/die-unterfinanzierung-der-hochschulen-bleibt-das-grosse-problem-3191/
5. ↑ see GWK press release on the establishment of the commission at http://www.gwk-bonn.de/fileadmin/Pressemitteilungen/pm2014-08.pdf
6. ↑ see homepage of the commission ( memento of the original dated February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.