Dominik Faust
Dominik Faust (born June 10, 1954 in Rüdesheim ) is a German geomorphologist . He teaches at the Chair of Physical Geography at the Technical University of Dresden .
Life
From 1974, after graduating from the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule in Hadamar, Faust studied geography , soil science and botany at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
From 1986 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Physical Geography ( Klaus Gießner ) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , where he received his doctorate with distinction in 1989 on the pedogenesis and properties of the soils of the Monts Kabyè (N-Togo) . After a two-year professional commitment as a resource conservation expert on behalf of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) in northern Tunisia , he received his habilitation in 1995 with a thesis on landscape development and soil erosion in the western Mediterranean region . His most important academic teachers were Arno Semmel , Klaus Gießner and Wolfgang Plass . After several professorships ( Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Darmstadt ), he accepted an appointment at the Technical University of Dresden in 2001 and took over the chair for physical geography.
Act
After his habilitation , Dominik Faust headed several DFG projects with a spatial focus on the Mediterranean region . His scientific focus and competencies are in paleo- soil research, paleo- environmental research , soil geography ( soil erosion research ) and geomorphology . He is considered a connoisseur of West Africa and the subtropical-marginal-tropical arid regions and an expert on the Iberian Peninsula . The main focus of his publications and book chapters is on issues relating to archive and process research, soil geography and geoarchaeology .
Faust is a member of the German Soil Science Society (DBG), the German and International Quaternary Association ( DEUQUA and INQUA ) and the Spanish Quaternary Association (Associacion de Quaternaristas Espanolas, AEQUA ). Since 2006 he has been the second chairman of the geomorphology working group of the DGfG and co-editor of the journal Quaternary International (QI), the central organ of INQUA, and of the Dresden Geographical Works.
literature
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 203 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Literature by and about Dominik Faust in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personal homepage at the Technical University of Dresden
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faust, Dominik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geoscientist (geomorphologist) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rudesheim |