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Curriculum Vitae Jürgen P. Kropp
since 2008 Head of the North-South Research Group at PIK (35 scientists) and Flagship Leader TripleWin: Reconciling mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development.
since 2010
extraordinary professor at University of Potsdam (Climate Change and Sustainability), Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences
2010 appointed full professorship at Griffith University/Brisbane and coincidentally Deputy Director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility of Australia (declined).
2008-2010
Lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin, Dept. of Geography
since 2004
Senior Researcher Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. PI/project leader of several international joint projects, funded by the Federal Government, EC or international development organisations (for project details cf. here).
2008-2009 Visiting Professor at Mahidol University, Bangkok/Thailand, Institute for Resource Studies
2007/2008 Expert for the Council of Europe, Committee for Sustainable Development in order to prepare a report on Adopting a strategy to reduce vulnerability and adapt to climate change. Consultant for German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) developing a proofing strategy making ODA investments climate resilient.
2006
The European Union INTERREG Programme awarded the Amber Tree Award to the ASTRA (Developing Policies & Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region) European joint project for its foresighted vision.
2001 - 2003 Senior Scientist Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Inst. Theoretical Physics III. Research Analyst for the German Advisory Council on Global Change to the Federal Government (WBGU). Contributing Author to the Reports Charging the Global Commons and Towards Sustainable Energy Systems
2001 Member of an Expert Panel invited by the European Commission on New Concept and Indicators in Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture.
1998 -2001 Post-Doc at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Systems Analysis and Modelling Group, Project Leader of the DIWA-Project, which dealt with a systematic analysis of the problems of coastal zones and management peculiarities in marine capture fisheries.
1992 - 1998
Research Fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Dissertation in Theoretical Physics University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics.(Thesis: Neural networks and qualitative knowledge bases in integrated environmental systems analysis).
1986 - 1992 Studies of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Oldenburg. Master Thesis at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment on Analysis of the Inhomogeneous Element Distribution in Recent Marine Sediments, i.e. it deals with fractal concepts and their applicability to disordered media.


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