Jörg Grunert

Jörg Grunert (born September 16, 1945 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest ) is a German geographer and geomorphologist .

Jörg Grunert studied geography , biology and chemistry at the Free University in Berlin . In 1970 he was a research assistant at the RWTH of Aachen , in 1972 he moved to the University of Würzburg . In 1974 Grunert received his doctorate on the formation of valleys in the Tibesti Mountains ( Chad ). 1980 followed his habilitation in Würzburg on the genesis of shift levels in Libya . A year later he accepted a call to the C3 professorship for special and applied geomorphology in Bonn . From 1996 until his retirement in 2010 Grunert was C4 professor for geomorphology and soil geography at the University of Mainz .

During his research career, Grunert dealt with the ice age glaciation of the Shir Kuh massif in Iran , with the morphodynamics and soil formation in eastern Niger , Burkina Faso and Togo , and later - until his retirement - with landscape development, dune fields and lake level fluctuations in Mongolia . He also conducted research in the Rhineland-Palatinate partner country Rwanda , where he was in charge of the PASI project. Grunert was also very active in the German low mountain ranges. First he dealt with Hangrutschungsforschung in Bonn area, and later with glacial slope facings , Auelehmen , gullies and young deposits in the low mountains of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse .

Grunert is considered by his colleagues to be an important figure in German geography. He was always highly regarded and popular with students in both Mainz and Bonn.

He was succeeded in Mainz on October 1st 2010 by the geomorphologist Andreas Vött from the University of Cologne .

Jörg Grunert is married and has two children.