In the Department of Palaeontology, we study the evolution of ecosystems over long timescales. We deduce the environmental factors which significantly influenced the emergence and disappearance of communities throughout Earth’s history, alongside predicting the effects of modern day anthropogenic climate change on future ecosystems. To achieve this we combine geological fieldwork, state-of-the-art analytical methods, palaeobiological databases and statistical analysis.
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Rachel Warnock has accepted the offer for a W2 professorship in Systems Paleobiology. She will be joining our Team from 1st of October 2020. Continue
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling researches the effects of previous climate disasters on organisms and ecosystems at the Geozentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen. The Volkswagen Foundation supported him with a Lichtenberg professorship from 2006 to 2010, and since 2019 he has been supported in the initiative “... Continue
On Monday, July 13, the second to last performance of "Let them eat money" will take place in the Life-Stream from the Margrave Theatre. It deals with the question "Who is to blame?" for the climate catastrophe. After each stream of the digital production, experts discuss the themes of the play live... Continue
