Friedhelm von Blanckenburg#
| Membership Number: | 5303 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://t1p.de/FvB-FU-Berlin |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2964-717X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - date Professor of Geochemistry of Earth Surface Processes, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2008 - 2023 Head of Section Earth Surface Geochemistry at German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ Potsdam, Germany, and Professor of Geochemistry of Earth Surface Processes Freie Universität Berlin
- 12/2013 - 2/2014 Visiting professor, Stanford University, USA
- 3/2014 - 5/2014 Visiting professor, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France
- 2001 - 2008 Professor of Geochemistry, University of Hannover, Germany
- 1997 - 2001 Lecturer, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 1995 - 1997 Senior Research Assistant, University of Oxford, England
- 1991 - 1995 Postdoc in Isotope Geochemistry, University of Cambridge, England
- 1986 - 1990 Ph-D in Geochemistry/Geochronology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 1980 - 1985 Degree ("Diplom") in Geology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Earth surface processes
- Femtosecond laser ablation
- Developing cosmogenic nuclide methods in Earth surface and paleo-climate research
- Mass Spectrometry
- Application of metal stable isotopes in the Earth-, Plant Nutrition, and Biomedical Sciences
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Member of the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”
- 2010 Ralph Alger Bagnold Geomorphology Medal of the European Geosciences Union
- 2015 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2016 Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Assoc. of Geochemistry
- 2018 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2023 ERC Advanced Grant
