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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

Join us on Monday 4. May for a live chat session with authors and conveners.

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...

In the coming summer semester we will host Dr. Rachel Warnock as a guest professor. Rachel is a an expert in phylodynamic modeling and will contribute to the research and teaching at the GeoZentrum for one semester. She is currently in the Computational Evolution group at ETH Zürich. In Erlangen, ...

Vanessa Roden successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Beta diversity in Triassic and modern reef basin assemblages“. Congratulations!

How huge he really was is uncertain. The only thing that is certain is that it is the largest bony fish of all time: we are talking about the Leedsichthys problematicus, which lived about 160 million years ago. But how can such fossils, of which only a few fragments have survived, even be analysed? ...

Jeff Liston studied Evolutionary Zoology, Invertebrate Palaeontology, Geology and Oceanography (after a brief bout of Medicine) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. While curating the palaeobotanical and vertebrate palaeontology collections of the Hunterian Museum, he did a PhD on the first gia...

Patricia Rita successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Diversity and body size dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages across the Pliensbachian-Toarcian crisis“. She is the first doctor emerging from the TERSANE project. Congratulations!