(apl.) Prof. Dr. Carola Küfmann

Academic Director

Academic advisor, trust lecturer, member of the state examination commission

Office address:

Luisenstraße 37

Room A 210

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+49 89 2180-6654

Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 6664

Office hours:

Individually by email arrangement

Main research interests

  • High mountain karst (Northern Limestone Alps)
  • quantification of chemical weathering processes and correlative relief forms (also in arid deserts: Egypt, Jordan)
  • Mediterranean karst (Montenegro, Dinarides)
  • Soil and vegetation development in orobiomes (Central Asia, Alps, East Africa, Dinarides)
  • Soil patterns in karst areas (Terra fusca; O/C soils): allochthonous soil types (subalpine to subnival: Camibsole) under the influence of eolian dusts and loess
  • Quantification of airborne dust (recent: Sahara dust events)
  • Geomorphology (periglacial morphodynamics in alpine permafrost areas of Central Asia: Tien Shan, Pamir)

Lecture canon:

Alps; Polar Regions; High Mountains of the Earth; High Mountains and Natural Hazards; Soil Zones of the Earth and Fundamentals of Pedology

Current:

Bavaria Regional - Physiogeography; Ecozones of the Earth; Advanced Physical Geography - Geomorphology; Introduction to Physiogeography (didactic subjects)

Hier finden sie die aktuelle Themenliste für die schriftlichen Hausarbeiten § 29 LPO I (Prof. Küfmann) (PDF, 98 KB)

Jury Member Dr. H. Riegel-Preis (LMU); Geographische Gesellschaft München