木瓜福利影视

Rocks preserve information on enviornmental and biological processes at timescales not achieveable to human observation and experiments. But we cannot lay these two types of information, modern and geological, next to one another, and compare them at face value, because the the rock record preserves certain environments and moments in time, but eliminates others. My goal is to "translate" the Earth history to today's processes and vice versa, focussing on evolutionary processes.

I am a paleobiologist with a PhD (2015, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit盲t Erlangen-N眉rnberg) in the emerging field of stratigraphic palaeobiology. I that several extinction events were artefacts best explained by the physical structure of the geological record. To be able to address this quantitatively, I befriended the extinct group of microorganisms, conodonts, which are fun to study thanks to .

Conodonts are the first vertebrates to have evolved a skeleton. I became interested in how this key evolutionary innovation came about and, together with my (then) PhD student Bryan Shirley, we carried out . It allowed us to test the hypothesis that they evolved in adaptation to dental function at the level of material properties. This project was the basis of my habilitation (2021).

In 2021, I joined the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, where I am leading the You can read more about my current research here.

Team members:

1. Dr. Xianyi Liu (postdoc, ERC StG 鈥淢indTheGap鈥�)
2. Niklas Hohmann (PhD student, ERC StG 鈥淢indTheGap鈥�)
3. Shirin Nurshan Rahman (former PhD student)

Service to the community

1. Titular member and secretary of the Subcommission for Silurian Stratigraphy
2. Associate Editor at
3. Recommender for the
4. Council member of the and the editor of its (2020-2023)