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Curriculum Vitae
- 2010 Director of Leibniz-Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen
- 2010 Chair for Sedimentology, Universität Heidelberg

- 2008-2009 Spokesperson (chair) of "die Junge Akademie"
- 2005-2010 Member of "die Junge Akademie"
- 2005-2010 Heisenberg grant at University of Bremen and Marum
- 2004 Albert Maucher Award of the German Science Foundation DFG
- 2004 Habilitation
- 2003 Walter-Schall Award of the Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg e.V.
- 2003 Hans Cloos Award of the Geologische Vereinigung
- 2003-2005 Grant of the Universities and Science Program, Institute of Palaeontology Erlangen (Germany)
- 1999-2003 Assistent professor at Hannover University (Germany)
- 1998-1999 Postdoc at Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory , RSMAS, University of Miami
- 1995-1997 PhD student at GEOMAR Forschungszentrum (Kiel/Germany)
- 1991-1992 student at University of Queensland (Brisbane/Australia)
- 1988-1994 student at Tübingen University (Germany)
Current research
Carbonate sediments as archives of environmental and climate change
Heterozoan tropical carbonates - the modern and the ancient. Steering parameters and their role as climate and environmental archives.
- tropical carbonates under upwelling-conditions: Mauritania (Poseidon expedition POS-346 in 2006; Merian expedition MSM-16-3 in 2010)
- microbialites of Tahiti (IODP Expedition MSP 310)
- heterozoan warm-water carbonates in the Tertiary
The role of carbonate secreting biota on siliciclastic shelf systems: MARUM Projekt SD2 "External forcing and self-organization of clastic shelf systems"
Calcareous rhythmites as archives of climate change
- Tertiary slope sediments of the Bahamas
- limestone-marl alternations as chronostratigraphic tools - problems introduced by diagenesis
- Triassic micritic limestone-marl rhythmites
Climate and Culture (Working group of die Junge Akademie)
- Gauss-Symposium, 29.9.2009 in Göttingen "Impact of Earth Processes on History, Civilisation and Life"
Books
(May 2010): "Mekkas der Moderne - die Pilgerstätten der WIssensgesellschaft" Eds.: H Schmundt, M Vec, H Westphal, Böhlau. A project of Die Junge Akademie.
(August 2010): "Carbonate depositional systems - assessing dimensions and controlling parameters" Eds.: H Westphal, B Riegl, GP Eberli, Springer.
(August 2010): "Heureka - Evidenzkriterien in den Wissenschaften" Eds.: E-M Engelen et al., Spektrum-Verlag. (Kapitel Geologie von HW)
“Der Campus-Knigge. Von Abschreiben bis Zweitgutachten” Vec, M., Beer, B., Engelen, E.-M., Fischer, J., Freund, A.M., Kiesow, R.M., Korte, M., Schollwöck U., Westphal, H. (eds.) (1. Auflage Okt. 2006, 2. Auflage Feb. 2008) C.H.Beck-Verlag. A project of Junge Akademie.