Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung
an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Invalidenstraße 43
10115 Berlin
Deutschland
Education: 1994-99 study of geology-palaeontology at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg 1999-2002 PhD project at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg
Internship: 03.03.-11.04.1997 at the geological department of the research institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt/Main: Development of concepts for the presentation of an exhibition in the Senckenberg museum - topic: geologic age determination
Employment: between 1995 and 2001 several times at the Institutes of Geology and Paleontology in Würzburg as scientific assistant and tutor, respectively
Postdoc: 1.11.2002-30.9.2004 within the postgraduate research program "Evolutionary Transformations and Mass Extinctions", Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Curator/Researcher: since 1.10.2004, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Project Coordinator "Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe": since 1.5.2009, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Aufgabengebiete
Project Coordinator "Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe" (EU project carried out in the framework of the eContentplus Programme)
Acting Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology
Management of optical instruments
Betreute Sammlungen
Bivalvia
Gastropoda
Scaphopoda, Rostroconchia, Monoplacophora
Brachiopoda
Porifera
Forschungsschwerpunkte
taxonomy (bivalves and gastropods) and palaeoecology of the Upper Jurassic of N-Germany
recent freshwater bivalves of Lake Malawi and their taxonomy, ecology, and evolution
evolution and palaeoecology of unionoid bivalves
effects of extinction events for the evolution of the unionoids
fossil molluscs of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Koobi-Fora Formation of the Turkana-Basin: taxonomy, palaeoecology, evolution
geometric and multivariate morphometrics (Fourier Analysis, Landmark-Analysis) including statistics
Auszeichnungen
DAAD research grant for three month (fieldwork in Malawi, E-Africa)
second prize (students poster contest) at the World Congress of Malacology in Vienna 2001
poster award at the annual meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Freiberg 2007
Forschungsreisen
1997 celtiberic chains, Spain (geologic mapping)
1999-2002 museum collections in Munich, Frankfurt, Bremen, Berlin, London, and Cambridge
2000 Lake Malawi, Malawi (field work for PhD-project)
2003 Patagonia, Argentina (field work)
2003 Montana, USA (field work); Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA (collection work)