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, roč. 11, č. 2, s. "nestrankovano", 12 s. ISSN 1748-9326. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001. 2016. 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. roč. 12, č. 2, s. 100-106. ISSN 1540-9295. doi:10.1890/130089. 2014. 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. Vol. 30, Iss. 27-28, s. 3947-3959. ISSN 0277-3791. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.010. 2011. 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, roč. 72, č. 10, s. 182–191. ISSN 0921-8181. 2010. URL info
• BÜNTGEN, Ulf, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, David FRANK a Jan ESPER. Three centuries of Slovakian drought dynamics. Climate Dynamics. roč. 35, č. 2, s. 315-329. ISSN 0930-7575. 2010. info

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