Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data Name Joachim Gruber Email Joachim.Gruber(at)acamedia.info WWW Lymenet.de. acamedia.info Date and Place of Birth 7. April 1941, Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland). Education Vordiplom in Physics, Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany, 1963. Diplom in Physics, Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany, 1968. Dr. rer. nat. (Nuclear Physics), Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, 1973.

Meritocrats: My Highschool Teachers

Academic Honors

• 1965

Fellowship in Nuclear Beam Optics,
Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), Geneva,
Switzerland (August - October).
 
• 1978

Visiting Scholar,
Environmental Sciences Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, U.S.A. (September - October).
 
• 1981 - 1986

Visiting Scholar,
Applied Earth Sciences, and
Environmental Engineering and Science,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A..
 
• 1991 - 1992

Visiting Member,
Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
New York University, New York, U.S.A..
 
• 2004
  Alumnus,
  Salzburg Seminar,
  Salzburg, Austria.

Employments

• 1996

Research Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter), Institut für
Bodenkunde und Standortslehre, Universität Hohenheim, Hohenheim, Germany.
 
• 1990 - 1995

Research Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter),
Arbeitsbereich Umweltschutztechnik, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany.
 
• 1987 - 1989

Visiting Assistant Research Soil Scientist,
University of California, Riverside, California, U.S.A..
 
• 1986 - 1987

Visiting Scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A..
 
• 1973 - 1983

Research Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter),
Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung, Berlin, Germany.
 
• 1973

Assistent der Geschäftsführung,
Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung, Berlin, Germany.
 
• 1970 - 1973

Research Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter),
Bereich Kernchemie und Reaktor,
Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung, Berlin, Germany.
 
• 1969 - 1970

Assistent,
Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Scientific Interests

• geochemical behavior of heavy metals and pesticides,
• modeling of interactions between contaminants and soil/sediment surfaces,
• simulation of transport of natural and man-made chemicals in soils with
• coupled geochemical-geohydraulic models and
• nonlinear sets of hyperbolic conservation laws (multicomponent chromatography),
• conditions for the generation of highly concentrated contaminant shock waves,
• proliferation of dual-use technology from Germany
• pharmacokinetics, -dynamics and immune response modeling in neurologic Lyme disease.

• 1973 - 1977

Calculation of blanket activation, optimizing of blanket designs with respect to tritium breeding, tritium-inventory und heavy metal activation, Collaborative Tokamak Reactor Design, German-English Collaboration.
 
• 1977

Calculation of the exposure to tritium from nuclear facilities, collaboration with A.A. Moghissi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, and Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, U.S.A.. Methodology for hazard asssessment of environmental tritium, IAEA-SM-232/4, Vienna 1979. In Behavior of Tritium in the Environment. Proc. Symp., San Francisco, October 16-20, 1978, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-SM-232/, Austria 1979, 711 pp.
 
• 1977 - 1978

Principal investigator, Projekt Sicherheitsstudien Entsorgung (Project Radioactive Waste Disposal Safety Studies), Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung, Berlin, Germany (October 1977 - August 1978).
 
• 1977 - 1978

Estimation of the long-term radiological burden originating from reactor decommissioning waste, Projekt Sicherheitsstudie Entsorgung, Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung, Berlin, Germany.
 
• 1978 - 1983

Modeling of the long-term geochemical behavior of activated heavy metals from fusion reactors, International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR), International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
 
• 1982 - 1983

Radioactive waste from INTOR and NET (Next European Torus): repository characteristics.
 
• 1983 - 1985

Estimate of the necessary isolation time for activated metals from fusion and fission: the role of their radiological and geochemical properties.
 
• 1986 - 1987

Calculation of contaminant remobilization in weakly buffered repositories, Yucca Mountain, New Mexico, U.S.A..
 
• 1987 - 1988

Influence of climate variations on the stochastic transport of pesticides in unsaturated soils in the U.S.A.:
Jury, W.A., and J. Gruber. 1989. A stochastic analysis of the influence of soil and climatic variability on the estimate of pesticide ground water pollution potential. Water Resources Research 25(12):2465-2474, doi:10.1029/WR025i012p02465 (in cache), Correction
 
• 1989 - 1992

Development of a coupled geochemical-geohydraulic contaminant transport program based on chromatographic models and models in gas dynamics: the role of shocks in accumulating remobilized contaminants.
 
• 1990 - 1994

Calculation of concentration waves with a chromatographic transport model: thresholds in the behavior of a 2-component aqueous system with variable charge adsorbing surfaces.
 
• 1995

Calculation of sedimentation rates in the Mecklenburg Bight (Baltic Sea) based on the disequilibrium of natural radioisotopes of uranium and thorium.
 
• 1996

Calculation of concentration waves with a chromatographic transport model: 3-component aqueous systems.
Models of Contaminant Migration: The Role of Chromatographic Models
 
• 1997 - 1998

Lyme disease: statistical evaluation of symptom logs and an empirical Theory of flare cycles.
 
• 1999 - 2004

Some Background related to proliferation
Research presented at the Salzburg Seminar, Session 418, June 2004, "Reinventing the West: Redefining the Transatlantic Relationship"
• Germany's deficit in non-proliferation.
• Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology.
• Dual-use items and the lack of Germany's accountability.
• Monitoring nuclear non-proliferation, Chemical and Biological Weapons Convention compliance: A summary of problems.

• 2000

Solar Heat from a Glass House

• 2001 - 2004

Immune response modeling in Lyme disease
• A tentative interpretation of Lyme flare cycles and a corresponding therapy (Abstract).
• Compartment models displaying Lyme disease symptom cycles.
• Burrascano's Guidelines
• Oscillations of the immune system
Basic tympanometry
Pharmacokinetic/dynamic models: inadequacy of the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration