Curriculum Vitae Prof. Udo Schickhoff

        
Date of birth: October 26th, 1960, in Arnsberg-Neheim, Germany
Family status: married to Ursula Hillebrand, three children

 
Education and positions held:

1980: Abitur (high school diploma), Gymnasium Rumbecker Holz, Arnsberg
1981-1988: Student of geography, botany, geology, and sociology at the universities of Bochum and Münster
1986: Fieldwork for M.Sc.-thesis in Helambu, Nepal
1988: M.Sc. in geography (landscape ecology) at the University of Münster
1988-1989: Civil service at the Department of Environment, Hanseatic City of Lübeck
1989-1998: Research associate at the Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster and at the Institute of Geography, University of Bonn
1989/1990: Fieldwork for Ph.D.-thesis in Kaghan, West Himalaya, Pakistan
1993: Ph.D. in landscape ecology, University of Münster
1992-1995: Post-doctoral research in northern Pakistan (E-Hindukush, Karakorum , W-Himalaya)
1995-1998: Fellowship for professorial candidates of German Research Council
1997-1998: Visiting research associate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
1998: Post-doctoral research in Brooks Range Foothills, northern Alaska
1998-1999: Fellowship of Kalkhof-Rose Programme of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
1999: Habilitation at the University of Bonn (Venia legendi: geography)
1999-2002: Professor of Biodiversity, Institute of Botany, University of Greifswald (Foundation professorship, 3.5 years)
2002-2003: Professor of Landscape Ecology, Institute of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, University of Rostock
2003-2004: Professor of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn
since 2004: Professor of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg
 
 
 
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