Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Martin Volk

Current and previous positions

2022 Head of Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (CLE) (Co-lead), UFZ
2015 Adjunct Professor for Physical Geography and Geoecology at the Institute for Geosciences and Geography of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
2011 Head of Working Group on „Integrated Modelling and Optimization“, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, UFZ
2004 Deputy Head of Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (CLE), UFZ
2012-2015 Head of WP 3 on „Trade-offs and synergies between ESS given at different land use intensities and landscape configurations” (PoF III), UFZ
2004-2008 Deputy head of the research cluster “River Basin Management”, UFZ
2003-2004 Sabbatical at the Blackland Research & Extension Center of the Texas A & M University and the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS in Temple, Texas, USA (research visitor stipend of the USDA)
1995-1999 Research scientist at the Department of Applied Landscape Ecology, UFZ
1995 Freelancer in the field of geotechnology and engineering surveying
1993-1995 Engineering office (IfG) in Bad Dürrenberg (Saxony-Anhalt), producing evaluative reports dealing with environmental technology, geotechnology and hydrogeology issues

 Education

2010 Habilitation (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) at the Faculty for Natural Sciences III of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
1994 Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany
1990 Diploma in Physical Geography at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany