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Due to the globally increasing number of infections we have decided to cancel next year’s Flügel Courses on carbonate microfacies which were supposed to take place in March. This is very unfortunate, especially since there is a long waiting list, but it seems unlikely to us that we will have overcom... Continue

Prof. Wolfgang Kießling, Chair of Palaeobiology, and scientists from Australia have succeeded in providing a robust basis for the identification of "New Ecosystems" bereitzustellen, with fossils playing a special role: "Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities". At the s... Continue

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