Geological Sciences

Freie Universität Berlin

Overview

Geological Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin offer comprehensive, broad training and exemplary basic research in almost all areas of terrestrial geological sciences. 

Quick Facts:

• Geological Sciences are therefore an applied arm of the natural sciences, but they are distinguished from the latter by their links to Earth history and the life sciences. The analysis and prediction of geological processes require the ability to reconstruct past events through the study of rocks, minerals, and fossils.
• Most of the focus areas combine teaching with research on geohazards (earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change, biodiversity) and resources (water, hydrocarbons, natural gas, rare earths, ores, building materials, etc.). The importance of earth processes and global material cycles for our civilization is addressed and partly deepened in special events.
• The chosen focus of the students of the Master’s program in Geological Sciences decides to what extent the individual geological subject areas are actually covered in terms of content (see structure of the program).
• Examples are the DFG-Collaborative Research Center-Transregio TRR 170 “Late accretion on terrestrial planets” and the research project “Mountain Building Processes in Four Dimensions - 4D-MB” that is focused on the movement at tectonic plate boundaries in the Alpine-Mediterranean region from the surface of the earth to into the lower mantle.