Eric Veulliet

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Eric Veuillet 2018 at a lecture in Freising

Eric J. Veulliet (born May 30, 1963 in Karlsruhe ) is a German geologist and university professor who has been President of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences since October 1, 2017 .

Live and act

Eric Veulliet attended schools in Germany and France, including the European School in Karlsruhe . He graduated from high school in Coburg and then did military service. He completed his studies in geology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . At the Chair of Applied Geology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , in the hydrogeology department , he was awarded a doctorate. nat. PhD, after which he carried out numerous activities in the environmental sector. He worked for various companies as a project and division manager or managing director.

Veulliet is a volunteer member of the board of directors of the “Klima-Schützen” association, which he founded himself to inform the public about climate change and its consequences. He is also a member of the advisory committee at the “Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology” at KIT in Karlsruhe.

His professional résumé with many stations shows that he is very versatile. In 2002 he founded alpS GmbH in Innsbruck , where he was the sole managing director until the end of September 2017, obtained third-party funding for research on climate change, energy and resources and worked extremely well with the University of Innsbruck . From 2011 to 2014 he held a teaching position at the Institute for Geography at this university.

AlpS - Center for Natural Hazard and Risk Management (2002–2009)

After the avalanche disaster in Galtür in 1999, the alpS Center was founded as the “Kplus Center for Natural Hazard Management” in Innsbruck. The main tasks of this platform were to make a contribution to the sustainable protection of the alpine living and economic area. During the seven-year Kplus funding phase, Veulliet and his team raised many millions of euros in project volume in order to implement practical R&D projects in cooperation with partners from science and industry . The main tasks of the alpS in this first funding phase were the development of new strategies, technologies and systems for the improved handling of natural hazards as well as for the assessment of the current and future hazard potential.

AlpS - Center for Climate Change Adaptation (2010-2018)

In 2010 Veulliet and his team succeeded in bringing a new publicly funded competence center to the alpS. With the COMET center "alpS - Center for Climate Change Adaptation", the foundation stone was laid for a transdisciplinary research and advice center that is unique in Austria. In total, over 150 projects have been implemented since 2010. The main focus ranged from water, resource, energy and risk management under climatically changed framework conditions to solutions for dealing with the consequences of climate change in mountain areas and adaptation measures.

New challenge

In autumn 2017, Veulliet became President of the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences .

President at the HSWT

The old part of the HSWT is on the mountain.
The new lecture halls and the “Center for Scientific Basics” are located in the valley.

University of Applied Sciences (HaW)

More than 6,400 students are enrolled at this university of applied sciences - with its campus in Weihenstephan (Upper Bavaria) and the second campus in Triesdorf (Middle Franconia) as well as its other locations in Straubing (on the Straubing campus of the Technical University of Munich ) and Schlachters (Lake Constance) . The HSWT has seven faculties: Biotechnology and Bioinformatics , Horticulture and Food Technology , Landscape Architecture , Sustainable Agricultural and Energy Systems, Agriculture , Management of Renewable Energies, Industrial Engineering and Agricultural Management , Environmental Engineering, and Forest and Forestry .

aims

Veulliet set itself the goal of bringing the two locations and the seven faculties of the university closer together and making the HWST “one university”. The basis for this is a university development plan to strengthen the attractiveness of the "HaW Weihenstephan-Triesdorf" to improve cooperation with the TUM, so to speak, to give it a "new beginning" with TUM President Wolfgang A. Herrmann " [to] a rope pull - in the same direction ”.

Awards

  • As a sign of appreciation, Rector Tilmann Märk appointed the long-time managing director of the AlpS, Eric Veulliet, as the seal bearer of the University of Innsbruck at the farewell.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the center at KIT , accessed on January 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Overview of the university management , accessed on January 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Announcement on the website of the Bavarian Ministry of Science , accessed on January 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Report in the local part of Merkur , accessed on January 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ Farewell and honor in Innsbruck , accessed on January 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Veulliet, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veulliet, Eric J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe , Baden-Wuerttemberg