Profile of the Professorship
Our Orientation
The professorship focusses on regional geomorphological phenomena in research and teaching. The focus is on the interactions between the properties of the near-surface substrates, changes in relief and soil as well as the water balance, the transfer of materials and the transfer of pollutants from different regions. The framework conditions and the ecological consequences of the processes are investigated. Our research involves a lot of fieldwork but also data analysis using methods of geoinformatics.
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History
The professorship continues scientific developments that began in the 1950s. First and foremost, the landscape ecological and systemic view of the landscape, the stratification concept of the landscape sphere and the areal structure concept should be mentioned here. Since relief is the ordering parameter of landscape systems, the phenomena and changes on the earth's surface are always considered on the basis of geomorphological processes and the materials and forms resulting from them.
Emeriti
Prof. Dr. Ernst Neef and Prof. Dr. Karl Herz belong to the traditional line of the professorship. The first holder of the professorship after the reestablishment of the Institute of Geography at the TU Dresden in 1991 was Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaulfuß.
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NameSibylle Fruhstorfer
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