I.  Curriculum vitae

 

Gerd Karlheinz Hartmann (Dr., Prof. emeritus) born in 1937 in Eschwege, Germany, studied physics from 1957 to 1964 at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, where he received his PhD. in 1967. Since 1965 he has worked as a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (MPAe), D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau. For over ten years he concentrated his activities on studying the upper atmosphere using satellite (radio) beacon signals.

Since 1967 he has been dealing also with general and specialized information and documentation problems, from the viewpoint of large volumes of time dependent and space dependent data, especially of the type collected in his research projects. At present he works as a consultant on several national and international committees and holds lectures and seminars throughout Europe, and especially in the USA., in Argentina, and Chile, countries he has often visited in the course of his scientific projects.

From 1975 to 1978 he was the provisional director of a division of the institute, the Institute for Long-term Control of Geophysical Environmental Conditions (ILKGU).

Since 1979 his main area of specialization has been studying the lower atmosphere by means of microwave radiometry. He is the Principal Investigator of the Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder (MAS) experiment which as a joint enterprise of Germany, Switzerland, and the USA has been flown as core payload of the NASA ATLAS (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) Space Shuttle Missions (ATLAS-1 (1992), ATLAS-2 (1993), ATLAS-3 (1994); http://www.mps.mpg.de/en/projekte/mas

Since 1980 he is "consultant" for information problems of the Institute of Intercultural Cooperation/Intercultural Research" (ICC/IIR: Heidelberg/Zürich/Pernegg). From 1980 to 1985 he travelled on behalf of that institute to India and Asia, especially for discussing his concept of the (intercultural) information system OCIR/VIGRODOS. He participated in and contributed to international conferences on problems of intercultural understanding and cooperation.

1986 he became guest professor and guest lecturer for filter and information theory at the University of Mendoza, Argentina. This task was extended in 1988, now also including problems of conserving utilization of the environment (sustainable development). In this context he is the international coordinator of the environmental program PRIDEMA started by the University of Mendoza (UM) in 1988.

1991 he became full professor at the engineering faculty of UM for "remote sensing for a conserving utilization of the environment" (sustainable development) and also "external scientific director of the institute for environmental studies (IEMA) of UM. In December 1991 he received the Dr. Luis Federico Leloir Award for international cooperation with Argentina in the domain of environmental research from the Argentinean minister for Science and Technology, Prof. Dr. R. F. Matera.

Since 1995 he works on the "value added validation" of remote sensing data from the Earth’s atmosphere and he was manager of an international experiment proposal for the investigation of the MARS atmosphere - in context with the MARS EXPRESS Mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) -, till it was cancelled because of funding problems in summer 1999.

He retired from MPAe at the end of the year 2000, but continued his DUST-2 and related activities. In the years 2001 – 2003 he was honorary consultant of the German-Islamic Institute for scientific and cultural co-operation e.V. (DII) in Celle, Germany.

Since 2003 he is honorary scientific consultant for Science-softCon in Maintal (Hanau), Germany. There he acts also as the speaker of the UV/VIS SAG (Science advisory group) and the Co-chairman of the CODATA UV/VIS+ working group (http://www.science-softcon.de ).

From 2005 to 2007 he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), which is since July 2005 the successor of the former MPAe,  as co-author  of the book “60 Years Research in Lindau” (1946 – 2006) (Text in German).

Contacts

1. Gerd K. Hartmann (Dr., Prof. emeritus):  Science-softCon, Auf der Burg 4, 63477 Maintal, Germany, gerd.hartmann@s-sc.de : tel.; +49-6181-498414, fax: +49-6181-498415, http://www.science-softcon.de/gkhartmann/index.html  (homepage), and www.sure-tec.com (project).

2. Private e-mail and address:  gkhartmann@web.de, Gerd Hartmann,  Pfarrer Opielka Str. 9, 37434 Bilshausen, Germany.