prof. Ulf Büntgen, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Prof Dr Ulf Büntgen, date and place of birth: 05th July 1976, Bonn, Germany, Married to Christiane von und zu Gilsa since April 2008, one child, Otto Maria Friedrich, born 2014

Department

• Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK

Employment - Position

• Research associate

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 10.2011 Habilitation (Palaeoclimatology/palaeoecology) at University of Bern: Tree rings and climate – beyond temperature reconstructions
• 11.2006 PhD thesis (Dr phil. nat.), Department of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland: Long-term European climate reconstructions from high-elevation tree-rings. Grade: summa cum laude, supervisors: Wanner H, Esper J, Nicolussi K
• 09.2004-10.2006 PhD student, University of Bern, Switzerland
• 09.2003-08.2004 Scientific Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
• 08.2003 Master thesis, Department of Geography, University Bonn, Germany: Dendroklimatologische Analysen einer 1000-jährigen Lärchenchronologie aus rezenten und verbauten Hölzern für das Lötschental, Schweiz. Grade: 1.0, supervisors: Winiger M, Esper J, Neuwirth B
• 04.1999-08.2003 Studies of Geography, Geology and Cartography, University Bonn, Germany

Employment

• 01.2017-present Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
• 01.2017-present Senior Scientist at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 01.2013-12.2016 Head of Dendroecology Group
• 10.2016-present Research Associate at the Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• 09.2012-present Associated Senior Scientist at Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic

Teaching Activities

• Z8338 Krajina v kvartéru (Quaternary landscape)
  ZX602 Reconstruction of the past climate and environmental changes from different proxy data
  

Scientific and Research Activities

• Main research questions: What are the causes and consequences of past and ongoing changes in diverse, though often intertwined environmental systems, including timely aspects of wildlife biology, forest- and myco-ecology, (paleo)climatology and human history, across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales; and how can different tree-ring archives, parameters and techniques be optimised to provide scientific answers to such and related inter- and cross-disciplinary research questions of societal relevance?
  
• Research foci: Arctic driftwood: Wood anatomy, Ocean Circulation Patterns, Provenancing, aDNA sequencing Climate variability: MWP, LIA, Recent Warming, Color-preservation, Forcing agents Dendrochronology: De-trending, Composite chronologies, Maximum Latewood Density Early instrumental measurements: Homogenization, Urban-Heat-Island, High-elevation observations Mountain systems: European Alps, Carpathian arc, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Scandinavia and Tien Shan Landscape dynamics: Change and persistence in Alpine environment, settlement and building history Palaeoclimatology: Long-term reconstructions, regional- to large-scale networks, frequency domains Settlement activity: Construction timber, felling dates, dendroarchaeology, human history, population migration Vegetation dynamics: Intra-/interannual growth responses, treeline and ecotone dynamics, shrubs and herbs

Internship

• 10-12.2010 Guest Professor at University of Madrid, Spain, Department of Astrophysics

Activities Outside University

• 01.2014-12.2016 Head of PAGES (Past Global Changes) working group: Euro-Med2k “Climate of Europe and the Mediterranean of the last 2 millennia” (http://www.pages-igbp.org/)
• 02.2017-present member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
• 11.2013-present ITRDB board member (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treering.html)
• 06.2007-12.2016 Associated Research Fellow of Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland

Publication activity

• Ulf Büntgen published >240 articles of which >170 appeared in ISI listed journals, including Science and Nature. His most cited paper has >600 citations and he has a total of 19 publications that have been cited >100 times. In summary, he has been cited >7200 times and his h-index is 44 (i10-index = 113). Please have a look under https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=YNBFLEQAAAAJ&hl=de for a detailed overview of his track record, including up-to-date metrics of his individual citations

Major Publications

• LUTERBACHER, Juerg; J.P. WERNER; J.E. SMERDON; L. FERNANDEZ-DONADO; F.J. GONZALEZ-ROUCO; D. BARRIOPEDRO; F.C. LJUNGQVIST; Ulf BÜNTGEN; E. ZORITA; S. WAGNER; J. ESPER; D. MCCARROLL; A. TORETI; D. FRANK; J.H. JUNGCLAUS; M. BARRIENDOS; C. BERTOLIN; O. BOTHE; Rudolf BRÁZDIL; D. CAMUFFO; Petr DOBROVOLNÝ; M. GAGEN; E. GARICA-BUSTAMANTE; Q. GE; J.J. GOMEZ-NAVARRO; J. GUIOT; Z. HAO; G.C. HEGERL; K. HOLMGREN; V.V. KLIMENKO; J. MARTIN-CHIVELET; Christian PFISTER; N. ROBERTS; A. SCHINDLER; A. SCHURER; O. SOLOMINA; L. VON GUNTEN; E. WAHL; H. WANNER; O. WETTER; E. XOPLAKI; N. YUAN; D. ZANCHETTIN; H. ZHANG a C. ZEREFOS. European summer temperatures since Roman times. Environmental Research Letters. BRISTOL: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016, roč. 11, č. 2, s. "nestrankovano", 12 s. ISSN 1748-9326. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001. info
• BÜNTGEN, Ulf; Willy TEGEL; Jed O KAPLAN; Marcus SCHAUB; Frank HAGEDORN; Matthias BÜRGI; Rudolf BRÁZDIL; Gerhard HELLE; Marco CARRER; Karl-Uwe HEUSSNER; Juta HOFMANN; Raymond KONTIC; Tomáš KYNCL; Josef KYNCL; J Julio CAMARERO; Willy TINNER; Jan ESPER a Andrew LIEBHOLD. Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2014, roč. 12, č. 2, s. 100-106. ISSN 1540-9295. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/130089. info
• BÜNTGEN, Ulf; Rudolf BRÁZDIL; Karl-Uwe HEUSSNER; Jutta HOFMANN; Raymond KONTIC; Tomáš KYNCL; Christian PFISTER; Kateřina CHROMÁ a Willy TEGEL. Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2011, Vol. 30, Iss. 27-28, s. 3947-3959. ISSN 0277-3791. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.010. info
• BATTIPAGLIA, Giovanna; David FRANK; Ulf BÜNTGEN; Petr DOBROVOLNÝ; Rudolf BRÁZDIL; Christian PFISTER a Jan ESPER. Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence. Global and Planetary Change. Elsevier, 2010, roč. 72, č. 10, s. 182–191. ISSN 0921-8181. URL info
• BÜNTGEN, Ulf; Rudolf BRÁZDIL; David FRANK a Jan ESPER. Three centuries of Slovakian drought dynamics. Climate Dynamics. 2010, roč. 35, č. 2, s. 315-329. ISSN 0930-7575. info

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