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Many people think of paleontology as field research, digging for fossils and Jurassic Park. A large part of the research is computer-aided. Dr. Rachel Warnock is a paleontologist who mainly conducts research on computers. This semester she is a visiting professor at the Chair of Paleo-Environment at...

Part of the GZN staff fighting against corona. Similarities with real existing people are of course purely coincidental (fantastic drawing from our MSc student Anna Merkel).

Research and study

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This year´s summer semester will mostly be held online with the exception of a few seminars and field trips that will be postponed. All information can be found on StudOn or UnivIS. Lecturers are in the process of converting their lectures in different online-formats if possible. Exams with ma...

Due to the current situation there are a few changes in the daily procedure of the university. Updates, informaion and questions related to the studies can be found here.

… “and now for the end of the course I would suggest a group photo”, says Tasnuva Ming Khan, one of the Earth System Research Lab students who participated in the first online teaching of the course “Tracers, Isotopes and Natural Attenuation” at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern. “Oha, and how does this ...

We offer a 2 year postdoc position in Paleontology, at the Friedrich-Alexander University, GeoZentrum Nordbayern. The opening is in the framework of the Paleosynthesis project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Your tasks The successful candidate will provide scientific support for internati...

After the success of the first and second editions, the applied sedimentology group at the GeoZentrum NordBayern (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) in collaboration with Geocosm LLC. are happy to announce the third edition of the International School on Sandstone Diagenesis. Like in the previous years, the s...