Curriculum vitae

Jochen E. Mezger

• November 2003: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (C1) Allgemeine Geologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
   
  
• June 2001 - October 2003: "freelance" researcher - writing scientific papers and hunting jobs.
   
  
• June 2000 - June 2001: Postdoctoral fellow at the Tectonophysics Research Group of the Institut für Geowissenschaften der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
   
  
• May 1998 - May 2000: Postdoctoral fellow at the Graduiertenkolleg “ Stoffbestand und Entwicklung von Kruste und Mantel ” at the Institut für Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
   
  
• October 1997 - February 1998: Research assistant at the Institut für Geowissenschaften, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany.
   
  
• 1992-1997: Ph. D. student at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
   
  
• November 1997: Granted Ph.D. Geology. Thesis title “Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Kluane metamorphic assemblage, SW Yukon: evidence for Late Cretaceous eastward subduction of oceanic crust underneath North America“ (abstract). Supervisors: Prof. Dr. P. Erdmer, Prof. Dr. T. Chacko and Prof. Dr. R. Creaser.
   
  
• December 1991 - August 1992: Geologist with geotechnical consulting company Geotechnik (Mainz, Germany): construction site drilling, geotechnical sample analyses. Geologist for civil engineering company Buchhardt & Horn (Eschborn, Germany): environmental assessment of a former East German ammunition factory near Bautzen, Germany; Consultant geologist for environmental engineering company IMA (Neu-Isenburg, Germany): compilation of potential environmental hazard sites of the county of St. Wendel, Saarland, Germany.
   
  
• August 1991: Granted Diplom Geology/Paleontology (Final mark: sehr gut). Thesis title (translated): “Geophysical and structural investigations of a postulated thrust zone in highly metamorphic rocks, southeast Sri Lanka“; Supervisors: PD Dr. G. Büchel, Prof. Dr. W. Jacoby.
   
  
• 1985 - 1991: Diploma student of Geology/Palaeontology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
   
  
• 1984 - 1985: Army service with German Armed Forces, first in Montabaur, Westerwald, and then with signal corps in Koblenz.
   
  
• 1984: Abitur at Staatliches Gutenberg-Gymnasium Mainz.
   
  
• July 1, 1965: Birth in Mainz, Germany. Mainz is the capital of the country of Rhineland-Paladine, and one of the oldest cities in Germany, built as the military base Mogutiacum by the Romans (38 B.C.). It is also the birth place of Johannes Gensfleisch, better known as Gutenberg, the modern inventor of printing, recently named the "Man of the Millenium".