Jan Esper


Prof. Dr. Jan Esper

Head of Unit
Department of Geography
Room 02-283
Phone: + 49 6131 39-22296
E-mail: esper@uni-mainz.de

 

 

Research Interests

  • Global Climate Change
  • Paleoclimatology
  • Urban Climate
  • Dendrochronology

Positions

  • Professor, Department of Geography, Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany) since 2010
  • Head of Dendro Sciences Unit, WSL ETH Domain, Birmensdorf (Switzerland) 2006–2009
  • Research Scientist, WSL ETH Domain, Birmensdorf (Switzerland) 2001–2006
  • Postdoc, LDEO, Columbia University, New York (USA) 2000–2001
  • Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1999–2000
  • Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1995–1999

Education

  • Habilitation in Geography, University of Bern (Switzerland) 2006
  • Ph.D. in Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1999
  • Diplom in Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1995

Tasks and Memberships

  • Head of Department of Geography
  • Faculty Council FB09 at JGU
  • Senate of JGU
  • Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Gutenberg Research College, JGU
  • CzechGlobe, Brno
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld
  • Steering Committee, Max Planck Graduate Center
  • Steering Committee, TeMaS Excellence Platform
  • Board, Wilhelm Lauer Foundation
  • Editor, Dendrochronologia