Jan Harff

Jan Harff (born March 14, 1943 in Güstrow ) is a German geologist who specializes in sedimentology and marine geology.

Live and act

Harff studied from 1964 at the Humboldt University Berlin and received his diploma as geologist at the University of Greifswald in 1969 . In 1974 he received his doctorate there and was then a scientist at the Central Institute for Earth Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Potsdam. In 1986 he became head of the mathematical geology department . In particular, he dealt with the creation of mathematical models for the north German-Polish valley. After reunification he turned to marine geology and became section head at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) in Warnemünde. At the same time he became professor for marine geology at the University of Greifswald in 1993. Among other things, he studied the coastal development of the southern Baltic Sea in the last Ice Age (SINCOS project, until 2008). He was also on stays abroad in China, Vietnam, the USA, Poland and Russia. He was chief scientist of several oceanographic expeditions with research vessels in the Baltic Sea and West Greenland. In 2008 he retired and was a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and the Polish Science Foundation at the University of Szczecin for two years .

Awards and memberships

In 1986 Harff received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal and in 1989 both the Friedrich Stammberger Prize from the GGW and the Award of Distinguished Service from the Kansas Geological Survey. In 1996 he received the Krumbein Medal from the International Association of Mathematical Geology (IAMG). In 2009 he received the Serge von Bubnoff Medal for services in Baltic Sea research (marine coastal geology, modeling of marine sediment systems). In 2013, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology presented him with the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award .

Harff is an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2002) and the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

• Literature about Jan Harff in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Jan Harff in the state bibliography MV
• Laudation Bubnoff Medal to Harff, von Meschede, Stackbrandt, pdf
• CV, English, pdf