Prof. Dr. Moritz Lehmann - Education and Professional Experience
Born 29 June, 1971 (Freiburg i. Br., Germany); married, three children
Professional Experience
- 2019-2023: Head of Department, Department of Environmental Science, University of Basel
- 2017-2023: Board of directors (Departementsleitung), Department of Environmental Science, University of Basel
- Since 2017: Full Professor, Department for Environmental Science, University of Basel
- 2018: Cox Visiting Professor, Department of Earth Systems Science, Stanford University
- 2014-2017: Dean of Research at the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel
- 2010-2016: Associate Professor, Department for Environmental Science, University of Basel
- 2007-2010: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department for Environmental Science, University of Basel
- 2004-2007: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Université de Québec à Montréal, Center for Research in Geochemistry and Geodynamics (GEOTOP-UQAMMcGill), Montréal, Canada.
- 2003 - 2004: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
- 2002 - 2003: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
- 1999 - 2002: Research and Technical Assistant, Stable Isotope and Limnogeology Laboratories, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Summer 1998: Research and Technical Assistant, Marine Geoscience Unit, Council for Geoscience/Geological Survey of South Africa, Durban, South Africa
Education
- 2002: Ph.D. in Environmental Geochemistry/Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.
- 1998: Diplom (MSc) in Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 1994/95: Visiting student at the Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, San Diego, USA
- 1994: Vordiplom in Geology, Department of Geology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany
Honors/Awards/Fellowships
- 2018: Cox Visiting Professor, Department of Earth Systems Science, Stanford University
- 2006: Head of Young-Researcher Group of the Helmoltzgemeinschaft at the GKSS Research Center for Coastal Research in Geesthacht (Germany) (declined)
- 2005: Isotopenpreis der Karl-Eugen Habfast Stiftung for "Studies on the nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation of denitrification in various ecosystems", German Association of Stable Isotope Research (GASIR)
- 2004: "Ruf" to Juniorprofessur for Marine Biogeochemistry at the Institut für Meereskunde, University of Hamburg, Germany (declined)
- 2002-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2002: Postdoctoral Fellowship offered by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF-Stipendium für angehende Forschende; declined)
- 1997/98: Member Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- 1994/95: Fellow of the Akademische Auslandsamt of the University of Tübingen