Frank Riedel

Biography

Since 11/2011 Guest Professor at Yunnan Normal University, China Since 7/2001 Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia of the Freie Universität Berlin Since 3/2001 Appointed co-director of the Sino-German Center of Arid Environment and Paleoclimate Research, Lanzhou University, China Since 1/2001 Professor of palaeobiology at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Freie Universität Berlin 1994-2000 Assistant professor (wissenschaftl. Assistent) at the Institute of Palaeontology of the Freie Universität Berlin 1992-1994 Post-Doc at the Geological and Palaeontological Institute and Museum of Hamburg University 1990-1992 PhD-student at the Geological and Palaeontological Institute and Museum of Hamburg University 1984-1990 Student of biology and geology/palaeontology at Hamburg University 1980-1984 Sailor 9/1961 Born in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany

Research Interest

There are three avenues of research in which I am mainly interested and which are partly interlinked: Environmental Change In 2001 the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia (EDCA) was founded which acts as an umbrella and coordination organisation of several research groups of the Freie Universität Berlin. These are groups from Natural Sciences as well as from Social Sciences having the same goal of trying to understand the processes of the late Quaternary environmental change in Central Asia.