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Research Interests/Expertise:

• Micropaleontology of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda (and Charophyta) with focus on Mesozoic non-marine deposits (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous) of the world
• Integrated Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy) with focus on the Cretaceous
• Fundamentals, principles and methods of the biostratigraphic application of (late) Mesozoic non-marine Ostracoda
• Paleoclimatology and climate change, ocean-land interactons and its impact on life and the hydrological circle with focus on the Cretaceous
• Cretaceous greenhouse climate, Mesozoic climate shifts and climate extremes
• Mesozoic evolution of non-marine/terrestrial habitats
• Ostracod biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, phylogeny
• Palaobiology and application of ostracod reproductive and dispersal mechanisms
• Origin and early evolution of non-marine ostracods
• Taxonomy and application of Late Jurassic-Cretaceous Charophyta
• Theoretical, practical and applied taxonomy

Other Affiliations and Professional Activities:

• Affiliate Research Associate, Collections Division Vertebrate Paleontoloy, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
• Stratigraphic Consultant, Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Visiting Staff, Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA

Current Projects:

04/2020 – 04/2024: BrasCretOst I "Revision and integration of applied taxonomy of non-marine ostracods of the Buracica, Jiquiá and Alagoas local stages”, service contract funded by PETROBRAS (PI).  

04/2022 – 03/2024: UNESCO-IUGS IGCP Project 710 – Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys, Subproject NOMAJU: “Non-marine – marine correlation and sea-level changes in the Mid-Jurassic Tethys: Tectonic versus climate events” funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (PI).

Teaching:

SoSe 2022: MA-ERD-W-3.14 Advanced Stratigraphy and Carbonate Sedimentology