Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie
A-8010 Graz, Heinrichstraße 26
Tel.:++43 (316) 380 5588
Fax: ++43 (316) 380 9870
eckart.wallbrecher@kfunigraz.ac.at
Born in Bielefeld, Germany on August 6, 1940
Wife: Barbara Wallbrecher (librarian), born July 24, 1943 in New
York. Married since
June 6, 1967 .
Daughter: Kathrin, born August 19, 1970 in Bonn/Germany
Son: Arne, born March 19, 1972 in Berlin/Germany
Education: Abitur 1960 in Bielefeld. Study of Geology in
Marburg/Lahn, Zürich, and
Bonn.
Masters degree on December 11, 1968, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn.
Ph. D. June 14, 1974, Freie Universität Berlin.
Habilitation July 18, 1979, Freie Universität Berlin
May 1, 1971 - October 15, 1974 Assistant, Institut für Geologie,
Freie Universität
Berlin.
October 16, 1974 - March 31, 1981.Assitant Professor, Institut für
Geologie, Freie
Univesität Berlin
April 1, 1981 - June 1986 Professor, Institut für Geologie, Freie
Universität Berlin.
Since July 1, 1986 full professor Institut für Geologie und
Paläontologie, Karl Franzens
Universität Graz.
1987- 1999 Head of Department
1996- 1999 President of the Austrian Geological Society and president
of the Austrian
National Committee of Geology
Theoretical work in applied mathematics and computer application in
structural geology.
Field work and structural analysis in the Afghan Hindukush (PhD
thesis). Structural work
in Greece and the Apennines. Leader of a DFG-project on structural
geology in the
Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Participation in the FWF-Project S4713-Geo
(Pre-Alpidic Crust).
Leader of the FWF-projects on structural Geology, petrology, and
geochemistry in the
Eastern Desert of Egypt (P09703-Geo), 'Geodynamic setting of the
Panafrican orogenesis'
(P12375-Geo) in Kenya and Tanzania.
Leader of the FWF-projects 'Ductile shear zones of the Kola Peninsula'
and P-13807
'Kinematic analysis of rock flow in ductile shear zones using three
dimensional studies of
natural and experimental porphyroklasts'. Leader of FWF-project p-15599
'Panafrikanische
und ältere Orogenese in Tansania', starting July 2002.
English and French fluently, good knowledge in Persian, basic knowledge in Arabic and Swahili.
lecture material (only german versions), Vorlesungsunterlagen
Geologische Software Fabric7
Ein Computerprogramm zur Auswertung strukturgeologischer Daten. (Dokumentation)
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