Head of Unit
Department of Geography
Room 02-283
Phone: + 49 6131 39 22296
E-mail: esper@uni-mainz.de
Positions
- Professor, Department of Geography, Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany) since 2010
- Head of Dendro Sciences Unit, WSL ETH Domain, Birmensdorf (Switzerland) 2006–2009
- Research Scientist, WSL ETH Domain, Birmensdorf (Switzerland) 2001–2006
- Postdoc, LDEO, Columbia University, New York (USA) 2000–2001
- Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1999–2000
- Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1995–1999
Education
- Habilitation in Geography, University of Bern (Switzerland) 2005
- Ph.D. in Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1999
- Diplom in Geography, University of Bonn (Germany) 1995
Tasks and Memberships
- Head, Department of Geography
- Faculty Council FB09 at JGU
- Senate of JGU
- Academy of Sciences and Literature
- Gutenberg Research College, Mainz
- CzechGlobe, Brno
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld
- Steering Committee, Max Planck Graduate Center
- Steering Committee, TeMaS Excellence Platform
- Board, Wilhelm Lauer Foundation
- Director Geography Bachelor Examination Board
- Center for Teacher Education at JGU
- Editor, Dendrochronologia
Research Interests
- Global Climate Change
- Paleoclimatology
- Urban Climate
- Dendrochronology