Wolfgang Franke (geologist)
Wolfgang Franke (born June 20, 1947 ) is a German geologist and professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
Franke studied geology and palaeontology in Bonn and Göttingen, received his doctorate in 1972 in Göttingen and completed his habilitation there in 1984. He was then professor at the University of Giessen until 2004 and at the University of Frankfurt from 2005 to 2011.
He deals with geodynamic processes of crust formation in Europe, especially the variscides , their paleogeography, sedimentology, biostratigraphy and tectonics, the development of the crustal plates involved, as well as metamorphic processes. He was the coordinator of the DFG priority program Orogenic Processes and the continental deep drilling program, the European Geotraverse, Europrobe, IGCP 233 (Terranes in the Circum-Atlantic Palaeozoic Orogens), DEKORP (German Reflection Seismic Project, as coordinator of seismic profiles in the Rhenish slate mountains and Saxon granulite mountains ) and PACE (Palaeozoic Amalgamation of Central Europe).
Franke was the chairman of the Geological Association from 1998 to 2001 . He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 1996 (and chairman of geology, mineralogy and crystallography there since 2011), was foreign vice-president of the Société géologique de France and vice-president of the GeoUnion (formerly the Alfred Wegener Foundation). In 1989 he became a member of the Academia Europaea and in 1992 a Fellow of the Geological Society of London .
He is co-editor of the Geologische Rundschau (International Journal of Earth Sciences), Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Geodinamica Acta and Geologica Sudetica.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Franke (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Franke, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1947 |