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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!

Palaeontology, the ‘study of ancient life’, has been making a significant contribution to our understanding of the natural world for over 200 years. One of the greatest achievements of palaeontological research has been to confirm the extinction of species as fact and to confirm Darwin’s Theory of ...

We invite contributions to the session Earth System Paleobiology: closing the geological and biological gap at European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2020 on 3-8 May in Vienna. The session is organized by Kenneth De Baets, Emilia Jarochowska, Martin Schobben and Melanie Tietje.

Congratulations to Dr. Salim Belkhedim for defending his PhD thesis entitled at University of Oran 2, completed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke and Dr. Emilia Jarochowska.