Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Raab
Head of Chair
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg
Chair of Geopedology and Landscape Development
Siemens-Halske-Ring 8
D-03013 Cottbus
Germany
LG 4A, room 3.17
T +49 (0) 355 69 4226
F +49 (0) 355 69 3346
raab(at)b-tu.de
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- July 1995
Diploma (Dipl.-Geogr. Univ.) in Geography (first-class honours), University of Regensburg, Germany
Thesis: Effects of fertilisation on the heavy metal content of forest soils – Studies on a long-term experiment in the Bavarian Forest
- June 1999
PhD [Dr. phil.] Geography (summa cum laude), University of Regensburg, Germany
Thesis: Wuermian glaciation in the Arber area, Bavaria, Germany
- July 2005
Postdoctoral lecture qualification [Habilitation] Geography University of Regensburg, Germany
Professorial dissertation: Detection and evaluation of landscape change in (pre-)historic mining areas – Examples from East Bavaria, Germany
Career
- August 1995 - March 1999
Instructor/ Researcher (Physical Geography and Soil Science)
Institute of Geography, Department of Landscape Ecology and Soil Science, University of Regensburg, Germany
- April 1999 - March 2001
Postdoctoral Researcher (Soil Science)
Institute of Geography, Department of Soil Science, University of Jena, Germany
- April 2001 - September 2005
Assistant Professor (Physical Geography and Soil Science)
Institute of History, Department of Pre- and Protohistory, University of Regensburg, Germany
- October 2005 - March 2007
Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Provisional Head of Department
Institute of Geography, Department of Physical Geography, University of Regensburg, Germany
- April 2007 - July 2007
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer (Soil Science)
Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering, Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus, Germany
- July 2007 - August 2010
Visiting Professor of Geopedology and Landscape Development
Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering, BTU Cottbus, Germany
- July 2009 - April 2014
Member of the Comission for Research and Young Academics of the BTU Cottbus
- April 2010 - December 2014
Head of the International Graduate School (IGS) at BTU Cottbus
- since August 2010
Full Professor of Geopedology and Landscape Development
Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering, BTU Cottbus, Germany
- February 2011 - June 2013
Member of the Academic Senate of the BTU Cottbus, Germany
- June 2013 - Juni 2016
Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural, Life, and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- since February 2015
Director of the Graduate Research School (GRS) at BTU CS
General Research Interests
Soil Science
Geomorphology
Geoarchaeology
- Geoecology
Specific Research Interests
Holocene soil development / Soils and sediments as archives of landscape development
Glacial geology and glacial geomorphology
Pleistocene periglacial and glacial sediments in the mid latitudes
Human-induced landscape change
Environmental impact of historic and prehistoric mining
- Field portable soil analyses and soil contamination
Professional Memberships
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Bundesverband Boden (BVB) e.V.
- German Association of Soil Science (DBG)
- German Association for Geography (DGfG)http://www.hochschulverband.de/cms1/
- Association of German Professors (DHV)
- Alumni Association of the University of Regensburg (EsdUR) e.V.
- European Geoscience Union (EGU)
- International Permafrost Association (IPA)
- Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
Selected Publications
- Raab, T., Raab, A., Nicolay, A., Takla, M., Hirsch, F., Rösler, H., Bauriegel, A., 2016. Opencast mines in South Brandenburg (Germany)-archives of Late Quaternary landscape development and human-induced land use changes. Archaeol Anthropol Sci,8, 453-466, doi:10.1007/s12520-015-0227-6.
- Sut, M., Repmann, F., Raab, T., 2014. Stability of Prussian Blue in soils of a former Manufactured Gas Plant site. Soil and Sediment Contamination 23, 504-522, doi: 10.1080/15320383.2014.839626
- Raab, T., Krümmelbein, J., Schneider, A., Gerwin, W., Maurer, T., Naeth, M., 2012. Initial Ecosystem Processes as Key Factors of Landscape Development-A Review. Physical Geography, 33(4), 305-343, doi: 10.2747/0272-3646.33.4.305.
- Raab, T., Hürkamp, K. & Völkel, J. (2010): Stratigraphy and chronology of late Quaternary floodplain sediments in a historic mining area, Vils River Valley, East Bavaria, Germany - Physical Geography 28: 357-384, doi: 0.2747/0272-3646.31.4.357
- Hürkamp, K., Raab, T. & Völkel, J. (2009): Lead Pollution of Floodplain Soils in a Historic Mining Area - Age, Distribution and Binding Forms. - Water, Air and Soil Pollution 201: 331-345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-008-9948-9
- Raab, T. & Völkel, J. (2003): Late Pleistocene glaciation of the Kleiner Arbersee area in the Bavarian Forest, south Germany. - Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 581-593. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00090-2