Prof. Dr. Werner F. Kuhs

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Academic Career:
	1970-1975	Studies in Geology, Mineralogy and Crystallography at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br. Diploma thesis on the crystal growth of quaternary chalcogenide-halides (honoured with the Gödecke Research Prize).
	1975-1978	Thesis work on the crystal structure analysis of ionic conductors belonging to the argyrodite family; graduation summa cum laude.
	1978-1981	Researcher and assistant (wissenschaftlicher Hochschulassistent) at the Universität Freiburg i. Br. Participation in the development of a software system for crystal structure analysis (PROMETHEUS) for disordered and anharmonic systems.
	1981-1987	Instrument supervisor for the four-circle diffractometer D9 at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble/France. During this time complete reconstruction of the instrument and improvement of sample environment. Work on ice phases and ferroelectrics as well as a number of other systems.
	1987-1993	Researcher and assistant (wissenschaftlicher Hochschulassistent) at the Institut für Kristallographie of the Universität (TH) Karlsruhe. Continuation of structural studies at high gas pressures on ice phases and clathrate hydrates, as well as on ferroelectrics and minerals. Between 1989 and 1992 chairman of the working group neutron scattering of the German Crystallographic Association (DGK, formerly AGKr).
	1991	Habilitation in Crystallography at the Faculty of Physics at the Universität (TH) Karlsruhe.
	1992	Victor-Moritz-Goldschmidt-Prize of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft for the work on ice and ice-related materials.
	1993	C4-Chair for Mineralogy/Crystallography at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
	2000	Offer of the Chair of Crystallography at the LMU/Munich.
	2001	Decision to stay at the University of Göttingen.

Memberships:
	AGU	American Geophysical Union
	DGK	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie
	DGKK	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallwachstum und Kristallzüchtung e.V.
	DMG	Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft
	DPG	Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Since 2003	Leopoldina	Elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina/Halle (section Geosciences: Geology, Mineralogy, Crystallography)

Recent Research and Advisory Activities:

The longstanding interest in ice, gas-ice-interactions and clathrate hydrates has developed to be the main research activity in Göttingen. The work has been partly financed through various grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG ("normal" grants and grants in the programme "Antarktisforschung") as well as through BMBF, PROCOPE and EC-grants. The work undertaken has resulted in the following memberships of international bodies:

• International Commission for the Cryospheric Sciences (IUGG/CCS), Executive Committee
• International Committee on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice (Executive Committee; vice-chairman as of July 2002)
• International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Commission of High Pressure (treasurer)
• Chairman of the Crystallography Committee and member of the Scientific Council of the Institute-Laue-Langevin/ Grenoble (1994-1998; member of the selection panel of the Laboratoire Leon-Brillouin/Saclay (1997-2001).

In addition to having delivered numerous invited conference papers on ice and clathrate hydrate related topics (e.g., several presentations at Gordon Research Conferences, a keynote on ice and clathrate hydrates at the IUCr-Congress 1999 in Glasgow), I have been a member of the scientific board for the following events:

• International Symposium (IXth) on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice, Hanover, N.H., 1996.
• Joint AIRAPT & HPCJ-38 Conference, Kyoto 1997.
• International Symposium on the Physics of Ice-Core Records, Shikotsukohan 1998.
• Synchrotron, Neutron and Laboratory Source Crystallography at High Pressure, Argonne, Ill., 1998.
• International Union of Crystallography General Assembly, with six High Pressure Microsymposia, Glasgow, August 1999.
• Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, International Discussion Meeting "Metastable Water", Dortmund, September 1999.
• Organizer of the Workshop on "Texture development, recrystallization and viscoplastic behaviour of ice" during the international conference on "Textures and Physical Properties of Rocks", Göttingen, October 1999
• The second International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 21-25, 2000
• International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice (PCI 2002), St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada, July 14-19, 2002
• Conference on the Physics of Ice (PCI), summer 2006 (Convenor).
  

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