Hans-Peter Bunge

(Geodynamics)

Hans-Peter Bunge

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geophysics
Munich University
Theresienstr. 41
80333 Munich
Germany

Room: 435
Phone: +49 (89) 2180-4225
Fax: +49 (89) 2180-4205

E-Mail:

Vita

Born: August 13, 1964, Bad-Saarow, Brandenburg, Germany

Education

• Highschool, 1984, Clausthals-Zellerfeld, Valedictorian
• B.S. Geology, 1987, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
• B.S. Physics, 1988, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
• Ph.D. Geophysics, Fall 1996, University of California, Berkeley
  Thesis title: Global Mantle Convection Models
  Thesis advisor: Mark Richards

Professional Experience

• Research Assistant, 1986-88, Structural Geology
  Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
• Research Assistant, January 1989 - May 1989, Mining Geology
  Council for Mineral Technology (MINTEK), Johannesburg, South Africa
• Graduate Research Assistant, 1990-1996, Geophysics
  Los Alamos National Laboratory and UC Berkeley
• European Union post doctoral scholar, 1997-1998
  Invited to the Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris
• Visiting Professor, June - July 1999
  Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
• Assistant Professor, 1998 - 2003
  Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
• Professor and Chair of Geophysics, since 2003
  Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar, 1989-1990
• Student Fellow "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes", (top 0.1% German students)
  1985-1991
• PhD Fellow "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes", (top 0.1% German PhD students)
  1991-1996
• Fellow of the University of California, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
  since 1996
• Bernard Friedman award in Applied Mathematics
  Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1997
• Computerworld Honors Program, Smithsonian Institution, 2001
• LMU Research Professor for Geophysics (Bundesexzellentinitiative)  2009 - today
  
• Member of the LMU Center of Advanced Studies since 2010
  

Academic Societies

• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• Member of the Academia Europaea
  

Professional Societies

• Member American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member European Geophysciences Union (EGU)
• Member German Geophysical Society (DGG)

Selected Service

• Reviewer for NSF, DFG and other funding agencies (since 1993)
• Member National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) resource allocation committee (2000-2003)
• External advisor of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) (since 2001)
• Member of the scientifc advisory board of the Geoforschungszentrum (GFZ) (2004-2007)
• Associate Editor Reviews of Geophysics (2005-2009)
• President EGU Geodynamics Division (2007-2009)
• Coordinator of DFG Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1375 'SAMPLE' on South Atlantic Margin Processes  (since 2008)
  
• ESA appointed lecturer in Geophysics to European Astronauts