Training and vocational career of Gunther Seckmeyer:
| June 1979 | Abitur (general qualification for university entrance) at Labenwolf-Gymnasium Nuernberg, main focus music |
| November 1979 to July 1985 | Studies of physics with diploma degree at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg |
| Oktober 1985 to Januar 1987 | Alternative civilian service at the National Research Center for Environment and Health (GSF) in Neuherberg near Munich |
| Februar 1987 to September 1987 | Research associate at the GSF |
| October 1987 to September 1991 | Physicist at the company PRC Krochmann, Berlin |
| July 1991 | PhD in physics (Dr.ret.nat.) at physics department of the Technical University in Weihenstephan |
| October 1991 to September 1992 | Research associate at the GSF |
| October 1992 to January 2000 | Research group leader for "applied physics of radiation" at Fraunhofer Institut for atmospheric environmental research (IFU) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
| January 1998 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification/dissertation at the faculty for mathematics and natural sciences at the Technical University of Ilmenau |
| Since February 2000 | Professor for meteorology at the University of Hannover |
| Since April 2004 | Director of the Institute for Meteorology and Climatology (IMUK) at the University of Hannover |