Georg Teutsch
Georg Teutsch (born March 31, 1956 in Bucharest ) is a German hydrogeologist and professor of geohydrology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .
Life
His professional career began in 1976 when he studied geology at the University of Tübingen and completed his intermediate diploma in 1979. This was followed by a master’s degree at the University of Birmingham in Great Britain, where he received a position as research assistant which he held until 1981. After a one-year stopover as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen, he accepted a position as a hydrogeologist at the Ministry of Agriculture and Water in Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 1983 . Teutsch then returned to the Chair of Applied Geology at the University of Tübingen and wrote his doctoral thesis, which appeared in 1988. Thereupon he received a professorship from several universities and decided on the University of Tübingen. From 1998 to 2003 he was director of the Center for Applied Geosciences (ZAG), University of Tübingen. From 2000 to 2009 he was a member of the strategy group NAGRA (National Cooperative for the Storage of Radioactive Waste, Switzerland). He has been Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) since 2004 . The UFZ is a research center within the Helmholtz Association .
Public offices
He has also been Chairman of the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) since 2006 . From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Council for Sustainable Development . He has been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 2012 and of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech ) since 2016 .
Georg Teutsch holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest .
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| SURNAME | Teutsch, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hydrogeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |