Education (short)
Employment (permanent)
since October 2017
Head of Micro-CT facility/ Institute of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Austria
Postdoctoral Program / University of Vienna, Austria
June 2012 – September 2017
Associate Professor/ Institute of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Austria
Doctoral Program / University of Bonn, Germany
Title: Dr. rer. nat. in Earth Sciences (‚magna cum laude‘)
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Martin
September 2009 – June 2012
Diploma Program / University of Tübingen, Germany
Title: Diploma in Zoology, Department of Comparative Zoology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Thesis: Functional-morphological and eco-morphological adaptations: the musculo-tendinous system of Carapus acus (Teleosts: Carapidae)
Supervisor: Apl. Dr. Sven Gemballa
October 2008 – September 2009
Academic Grants and Awards
2015-2017: Scientific & Technological Cooperation with France (Amandée: OEAD: No: FR 09/2016): 2 years (2016-2017) in cooperation with N. Schnell (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris, France): ‘Diel vertical migrations: how does it affect the musculotendinous system of mesopelagic fishes’.
2011 One of the best ranked candidates for the Zukunftspreis für junge Paläontologen at the 82nd Annual meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria
2011 Travel grant of FAZIT-foundation (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to Las Vegas, USA (Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
2010 Travel grant of FAZIT-foundation to Pittsburgh, USA (Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
2010 PhD-grant of FAZIT-foundation (2 years)
Public relations activities
2016 Lange Nacht der Forschung: University of Vienna
2015 Campus Festival (650th Anniversary of the University of Vienna) ; Das Wissen der Dinge (Special exhibition at the Natural History Museum Vienna; 650th Anniversary of the University of Vienna)
2014 Lange Nacht der Forschung: University of Vienna
Scientific recognitions
Organisation of scientific symposium at the 87th Annual Meeting of the ‘Paläontologische Gesellschaft’ Dresden (Germany): Evolutionary aspects of vertebrate functional morphology
2013 Organisation of the ‘6th International Meeting of Mesozoic Fishes – Diversification and Diversity Patters in Vienna (Austria)
Commissions of Trust
since 2020 Board Member of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik; Bernhard Price
2014 Member of the Advisory board of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, Germany
2013 Member of the Advisory board of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Germany
2012 Micro-CT Specialist, Institute of Paleontology, Univ. Vienna, Austria
Teaching (incomplete)
Supervision: Czerny, Stefan (Diploma thesis, Supervision => finished): Morphological investigations of the inner- and middle ear of selected marsupials of Southern America and Australia
Etmayr, Lisa (teacher accreditation, Supervision => finished): Morphological investigations of the inner- and middle ear of selected felids
Fritz, Katharina (Master, Co-Supervision => finished): Ontogenetic trajectories and developmental pattern in the jaw of Chiloscyllium punctatum)
Herke, Michael (teacher accreditation, Supervision => finished): Comparative functionalmorphological adaptations of the musculotendinous system during prey catching in pike and gar
Happ, Johannes (Master, Co-Supervision => finished): Evolutionary history of first songbird from Lavanttal, Austria (Miocene)
Kaineder, Gerlinde (BSc, Co- Supervision => finished): Tooth replacement and attachment in ice-fishes (Teleostei, Notothenoidei)
Neidhardt, Christine (Master, Co-Supervision => finished): Ontogenetic and phylogenetic investigations of Torpedo sp. (Elasmobranchii, Chondrichthyes)
Paul, Marie-Christine (teacher accreditation, Supervision=> finished): Morphological investigations of the inner- and middle ear of selected mustelids
Schnetz, Lisa (Master, Co-Supervision => finished): Cranial anatomy of the porbeagle, Lamna nasus
Schwab, Julia (Master, Supervision): Bony labyrinths of extinct and extant canids (Carnivora, Mammalia)
Weber, Denise (Master => finished): Septal compass and septal formula under ontogenetic perspective
Wiesinger, Peter (Diploma, Co-Supervision => finished): Cranial anatomy of stomiid fishes