Fakultät Chemie und Geowissenschaften at the Uni Heidelberg

Institut für Geowissenschaften

Uni Heidelberg

Im Neuenheimer Feld 234-236
69120 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 54-8291

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Basic information

Teaching in core subjects

Total number of students	170
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	3.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	3.0 %

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	54.8 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	3/11 points
Contact with work environment, master's	2/11 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	21.8 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	23.9 %

Research

Publications per academic	6.1
Citations per publication	4.4
Third party funds per academic	243.8 T€
Doctorates per professor	1.0
Research reputation	9.5 %

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Special features regarding teaching
Specialisations Geology/Paleontology, Mineralogy, Environmental Geochemistry in B.Sc. Geosciences; high proportion of practice-oriented excursions and laboratory exercises; high flexibility due to large proportion of selectable elective modules in the M.Sc. programme; unique focus in Germany on isotope analysis (e.g. in bachelor course "Laboratory Methods" and in bachelor project and final theses).
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Frankreich; Lunds Universiteit, Schweden; Universidad de Oviedo, Spanien; University of Patras, Griechenland; Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italien
Special features regarding the equipment
Precision mechanics workshops; grinding and preparation labs; stone workshops; museum; library; computer room; institute vehicle; laboratory: high resolution ion probes (CAMECA, DFG Core Facility), ion probe, microprobe, several mass spectrometers (noble gas mass spectrometry, isotope geochemistry, organic geochemistry); ultra-clean lab, X-ray lab; scanning electron microscope; water lab (inorganic); ultratrace analysis (ICP-MS), organic analysis (GCs, FCs etc.), in-situ gas analysis (Picarro); sampler equipment: pumps, hand drills, drill hammers, Rumohr Lot, dinghy etc.; microscope equipment.
Special features regarding research activities
Collaborative projects in international programs IODP, ICDP; High Resolution Ion Probe (DFG core facility). Networking with Heidelberg Centre for the Environment and Heidelberg Initiative for the Origins of Life.
Further information on research activities
www.geow.uni-heidelberg.de/