Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Hermann Heilmeier

Date of birth:        25.09.1956

Appointment:       Head of Biology/Ecology Unit, Institute of Biosciences, TU Bergakademie Freiberg                 

Address:              Institute of Biosciences, TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Leipziger Str. 29, D-09599 Freiberg                    

E-mail:                 heilmei@ioez.tu-freiberg.de               

Website:               http://tu-freiberg.de/fakultaet2/bio/biology-ecology                          

Education:            Habilitation in Botany, Universität Bayreuth (1995),

                            PhD in Plant Ecology, Universität Bayreuth (1988),

                            Diploma in Biology, Universität Bayreuth (1983)  

Appointments

1999-                    Head of Biology/Ecology Unit at TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TU BAF)

1996-1998             Stand-in professor for Biology at Interdisciplinary Ecological Center of TU BAF

1995-1996             Lecturer at Department of Soil Science, Faculty for Forest, Geo- and Hydrosciences, TU Dresden

1989-1995             Lecturer at Department of Plant Ecology, Univ. Bayreuth

Key research topics

• Strategies of resource uptake and allocation in plants of various life forms
• Plant nutrient relationships, especially nitrogen
• Adaptation of plants to drought and desiccation stress
• Adaptation of plants to heavy metal stress
• Antioxidative stress responses in plants
• Plant-soil interactions
• Phytoremediation
• Phytomining

Board memberships

• Editor-in-Chief of FLORA – Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants
• Handling Editor for Oecologia
• Handling Editor for Web Ecology