Prof. Horst Rüter is President of HarbourDom Consulting, Cologne, Germany after 32 years as head of the Geophysics Department of DMT. He nurtured the growth of this or-ganization from a small research group of the German coal mining to one of Germany’s most important private geophysical contractors. During that time he was responsible for more than hundred research projects for international public and commercial agencies, and for the mining and oil/gas- industry. He holds a Ph.D. from the Ruhr-University in Bochum, where he is now a part time professor. He teaches as well in the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum.