Dr. Peter Schad

Soil classification

Revision of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB).

Tropical soils

Soil formation and properties.

Lectures

Soils of the World, 2 hours per week, SS (in German)
Soil degradation and soil protection in the tropics and subtropics, 2 hours per week, SS (in German)
Soils of the tropics and subtropics: part of several modules (in German)
World soil resources, 2 hours per week, SS (in English)
Soil protection and world food production, 2 hours per week, WS (in English)

Field courses

Basic field soil science (in German)
World soil resources (in German and English)

Teaching at other universities

Nanyang Technological University of Singapore: Soil science (2005, in English)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Soil classification (since 2003, in Spanish)
Universitat de Lleida: Soil classification (2008, in Spanish)

Current positions

since 1999: Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), Chair of Soil Science, Technical University of Munich

Previous positions

1994-1999: Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), Chair of Soil and Site Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2002-2010 Vice-Chairman of the Working Group 'World Reference Base for Soil Resources' of the International Union of Soil Sciences
2010-2022 Chairman of the Working Group 'World Reference Base for Soil Resources' of the International Union of Soil Sciences

Research stays and scientific excursions and meetings outside Europe

Argentina (2012)
Australia (2010, 2012)
Bolivia (1991-1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004)
Brazil (2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
Burkina Faso (1998)
Chile (2008)
China (1998, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Colombia (2018)
Côte d'Ivoire (1998)
Ecuador (1999, 2016)
Georgia (2014, 2019, 2023)
Indonesia (2010, 2012)
Kenya (2005)
Korea (2014, 2023)
Malaysia (2005)
Mexico (1995, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022)
Mongolia (2019)
Namibia (2003)
Peru (2014, 2018)
Russia (1997, 2004, 2013)
Singapore (2005)
South Africa (2003, 2016)
Tanzania (2005)
Thailand (2017)
USA (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2023)
Vietnam (1998)

• Award for 'Good University Teaching', granted by Bavarian State Minister of Science, Research and the Arts (2009)

• Guy Smith Medal for 'life-term outstanding contribution to the development of soil classification' granted by the Commission Soil Classification of the International Union of Soil Sciences (2022)

• Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft
• Soil Science Society of America
• American Society of Agronomy