Gerhard Jentzsch

Gerhard Jentzsch (born July 6, 1946 in Taucha ) is a German geophysicist .

Gerhard Jentzsch grew up in Offenbach am Main . He studied physics and geophysics at Clausthal University of Technology and received his doctorate in geophysics in 1976. He then worked as an assistant and university assistant at the Free University of Berlin and completed his habilitation there in 1985. Two years later, he became Professor of Applied Geophysics at the University of Bonn , and in 1990 Professor of General Geophysics at the TU Clausthal. From 1996 to 2011 he held the chair for applied geophysics at the University of Jena . Under his leadership, the Moxa Geodynamic Observatory attached to the institute was expanded from a seismic station to a modern, internationally acclaimed broadband observatory. From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the German Geophysical Society . He was also President of the Earth Tides Commission of the International Association of Geodesy until 2011 .

His research topics include a. the experimental as well as numerical-theoretical recording and interpretation of deformations of the earth's body. His focal points also include the investigation of the site safety of nuclear power plants and nuclear facilities as well as earthquake research in Kazakhstan and in the area of ​​Thuringia and West Bohemia. There is also volcanological work on the Mayon , Merapi and Galeras volcanoes . Further research projects also took him to the Arctic (Greenland and ship expedition) and Antarctica .

Web links

• Internet presence of the working group in Jena