Reinhard Gaupp
Reinhard Helmuth Gaupp (born August 14, 1948 in Lauf an der Pegnitz ) is a German geologist. Until his retirement in 2014, he was Professor of Historical and General Geology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .
Gaupp first studied geodesy and then geology at the Technical University of Munich with a diploma in 1977 and a doctorate in 1980 ("Sediment petrographic and stratigraphic investigations in the Upper Eastern Alpine Middle Cretaceous series of the western part of the Northern Limestone Alps"). As a post-doctoral student he was at the TU Berlin until 1983 and then until 1990 as a petroleum geologist in prospecting at BEB Erdgas und Erdöl. In 1990 he became professor for sediment geology in Mainz and in 1996 professor in Jena.
He deals with clastic continental deposits, petrography of sandstones and analysis of basins, especially evolution of basins in Central Europe in Permian and Triassic.
He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and in 2015 became the first President of the DGGV, which emerged from the union of the German Geological Society with the Geological Association. He is President of the Central Europe Section of SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology).
Web links
- Reinhard Gaupp at the University of Jena
- CV on the website of the University of Jena
References and comments
- ↑ Partially published in: Sedimentationsgeschichte und Paläotektonik der Kalkalpinen Mittelkreide (Allgäu, Tirol, Vorarlberg), Zitteliana, 8, 1982, 33–72
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaupp, Reinhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gaupp, Reinhard Helmuth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Run on the Pegnitz |