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Geoscience, Department
Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
Kaiserstraße 12
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Telephone: +49 721 608-42192 /-43651
https://www.kit.edu
Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Kaiserstraße 12
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Telephone: +49 721 608-42192 /-43651
https://www.kit.edu
Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Student body
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Basic information
- Total number of students at the department
410
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
140
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
7.5%
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
15.0%
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
10/14 points
Job market- and career-orientation
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
16.0%
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
44.4%
Research
- Publications per academic
1.9
- Citations per publication
6
- Third party funds per academic
216,300 €
- Doctorates per professor
1.4
- Research reputation
18.9%
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Exam organisation
- Laboratory internships
- Excursions
- Research orientation
- Offers for career orientation
- Support for stays abroad
- Rooms
- Library
- IT-infrastructure
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
23
Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding teaching
MSc Applied Geosciences: Through the compulsory elective modules, in the Master's course an in-depth specialisation in applied fields such as Geothermics, Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geochemistry is possible. There are two endowed professorships on geothermal energy and technical petrophysics.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Praha; Université de Bordeaux I, Bordeaux; Université de Montpellier, Montpellier; Technical University of Budapest, Budapest; Politecnico di Milano, Milano; Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo; Universitetet i Tromsø, Tromsø; Universidade do Porto, Porto; Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao; Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul; Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave, Bratislava
Special features regarding the equipment
Geochemical laboratory (ICP-MS, XRD, WD-XRF, ED-XRF, DTA-TG, IR-MS, FIAS, CSA, IC) Preparation laboratory Mineralogical and geological collection Field laboratory with in-situ and online measuring multi-sensor systems for limnic systems as well as marine waters (Biofish, Biolift, ADCP), atmospheric aerosol collector programs/modelling: Geostatistics-ISATIS (Geovariance). The faculty also has access to the Angströmquelle Karlsruhe (ANKA) at Campus North, which is particularly relevant for theses. There are two endowed professorships on geothermal energy and technical petrophysics.
Special features regarding research activities
Practice-oriented research mainly in the fields of hydrogeology, engineering geology, geothermal energy and geochemistry, urban geochemistry, urban hydrogeology, karst hydrogeology, gold deposit science, multi-sensor system development; Geothermal Energy Centre Baden-Württemberg; There are two endowed professorships on geothermal energy and technical petrophysics; Head of the DFG research group "Computer-aided cooperative route planning in multi-scale 3D city and building models".
Support for founders
KIT Central: Innovation and relation management with Gründerschmiede; cooperation with the start-up company "Geotech Systems".
Other special features
The department closely cooperates with the Institutes of Meteorology and Climate Research as well as for Nuclear Waste Management of the Helmholtz Division of KIT. There are two endowed professorships on geothermal energy and technical petrophysics.
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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the
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