Ulrich Schreiber (geologist)

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Ulrich Schreiber (also: Ulrich C. Schreiber ; * 1956 in Osterode am Harz ) is a German professor of general geology in Essen and a writer .

Life

Ulrich Schreiber spent his school days in Osterode am Harz until he graduated from high school. In 1976 he began studying geology at the Clausthal University of Technology , which he completed after nine semesters. His first academic stay abroad took him to Windhoek , Namibia , in 1979 for an internship at the state water management . Towards the end of my studies I had the opportunity to take part in a research trip from Samoa to Hawaii to explore manganese deposits on the ocean floor. After graduating in 1981, he studied chemistry in Clausthal and geochemistry in Göttingen. With field surveys in Argentina in the autumn of 1982, the time of the doctorate and employment as a research assistant in Clausthal began. When he switched to a research position in Bonn, he completed his doctorate in 1987 with a thesis on the geochemistry of the Cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Puna of Northwest Argentina .

The time as an assistant at the Geological Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn brought the first intensive contact with the Middle Rhine region, the Westerwald and the Eifel. In 1994 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the tertiary volcanic rocks of the Westerwald . In 1996 Ulrich C. Schreiber was appointed professor of general geology at what was then the comprehensive university in Essen (now the University of Duisburg-Essen).

research

His areas of work are the regional geology of Central Europe, volcanism and tectonics as well as geoecology . In 2003 he discovered a connection between the occurrence of mound-building forest ants and gas-bearing tectonic fracture zones in the earth's crust. On his initiative, a research group was founded in 2010 at the University of Duisburg-Essen to research the usability of hard coal mines as underground pumped storage plants .

In collaboration with colleagues from all natural sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Schreiber developed a hypothetical model for the origin of life within continental fracture zones of the young earth's crust (Hypothesis: Origin of Life in Deep-Reaching Tectonic Faults).

He published numerous geoscientific articles and worked on geological maps of the Westerwald.

writer

In 2006, his thriller The Flight of the Ants about a fictional eruption of the Hohe Buche volcano on the Rhine was released in the present. In 2010 Schreiber published his second novel, a Cologne crime thriller with the title Kreuzstein and Socially Critical Reference, in which the reader incidentally learns details about the geology of the Siebengebirge and neighboring regions. In May 2011 his non-fiction book Vulkane was published , in which the connections between the causes, spread and dangers of volcanism are presented in a generally understandable form. In 2019 the non-fiction book The Secret of the First Cell followed, about the work of his interdisciplinary research group at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the origin of life and the state of knowledge in this area.

Ulrich Schreiber is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

  • Vulkane: Knowing what is true (non-fiction book), Freiburg: Herder 2011, ISBN 3-451-06276-3

further reading

  • Ulrich Blode: The flight of the ants, scenario of a German geocalypse (interview with Ulrich C. Schreiber). In: Christoph Weidler (Ed.): Phase X - The magazine for fantasy. No. 2, Atlantis Verlag, Stolberg 2006. pp. 32-39

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personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreiber, Ulrich C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode am Harz