Dr. Karsten Haase

Biography

Karsten Haase is a Professor for Endogenous Geodynamics at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He studied geology at the University of Kiel and spent a year at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. He completed his diploma at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Kiel in 1992. Karsten pursued his doctorate at the same institute and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, focusing on the dynamics of global cycles in the Earth system, and attained his Ph.D. in 1995. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and worked on various geological research projects, including those at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. His academic trajectory led him to positions at the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Kiel. He habilitated in 2002 and became an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark before returning to Germany as a full professor. His research interests include continental rifting, volcanism, and the environmental impacts thereof.

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