Year: 2022

Dear female students, junior researchers and junior professors of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences From now until 23 October 2022 resp. 06 November 2022, you can apply for admission to a new round of the FAU career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat: ARIADNETechNat mast...

New models for old trees The inaugural lecture by Rachel Warnock, professor for Systems Palaeobiology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, will take place on Wednesday 13th July 18:00 in the geology lecture hall, Schloßgarten 5, Erlangen. Abstract: Phylogenetic trees provide a framework for studying evolutio...

The key to prehistory reminds a little of a heart. But the 150-million-year-old coral is not red, but beige. It also doesn't breathe oxygen, but history. "This coral wants to tell us something" says Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling, Chair of Paleoenvironment. Read more...

We can learn an incredible amount from corals. Corals are magnificent creatures that have inhabited the world's oceans for millions of years. Prof. Wolfgang Kießling - "On the trail of climate change"

Professor Chandrajith, Environmental Chemist from Sri Lanka, was awarded the prestigious Georg Foster Award and works since March 2022 for one year at GeoZentrum Nordbayern in the Applied Geology / Hydrogeology working group Professor Rohana Chandrajith is an expert environmental geochemist, main...

We are seeking an individual for a part-time position (up to 3 years) for science communication at the GeoZentrum NordBayern. We are a multi-disciplinary research institute, focusing on Climate, Geodynamics, Palaeontology and Evolution (CGPE) and Sustainable Energy, Resources and Materials (SERM). T...

The Covid infection numbers are rising rapidly in Germany, and our Minister of Health has forecast that the peak of the Omikron wave will probably be reached in mid-February - i.e. about 3 weeks before the courses should start. This means that although we can probably expect the number of infections...

Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Paulina Nätscher, together with colleagues from the UK, South Africa, Brazil and India, recently published a paper highlighting the effects of colonial history and socio-economic factors on sampling biases in the fossil record. The study shows that 97% of fossil data collec...