Gert Wörheide - Curriculum Vitae#

• Chair of Palaeontology and Geobiology
  Director, SNSB-Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology
  
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology

• June 1998: 'Inge und Werner Grüter-Preis für Wissenschaftspublizistik 1998' ('Inge und Werner Grüter-Prize for Scientific Journalism')
  
• January 1998: Ph.D. (Doctor rerum naturalium) at the Faculty of Geosciences of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Summa cum laude.
  
• March 1994: Diplom (MSc) in Geology/Palaeontology, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
  

• October 2017 - September 2019: Dean, Faculty of Geosciences, LMU Munich
  
• October 2014 - September 2018: Deputy Director, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, LMU Munich
  
• October 2013 - September 2017: Vice-Dean, Faculty of Geosciences, LMU Munich
  
• October 2011 - September 2013: Dean, Faculty of Geosciences, LMU Munich
  
• December 2008 - continuing: Speaker of the Executive Board, GeoBio-CenterLMU, LMU Munich
  
• October 2008 - continuing: Chair of Palaeontology and Geobiology, LMU Munich
  
• October 2008 - continuing: Director, Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology
  
• April 2002 - September 2008: Juniorprofessor for Molecular Geobiology at the Department for Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen (Germany)
  
• April 2002, continuing: Honorary Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre of Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, Brisbane (Australia)
  
• April 2000 - March 2002: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre of Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, Brisbane and at the Molecular Zoology Lab, Dept. of Zoology and Entomology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia)
  
• April 1998 - March 2000: 2 one-year postdoctoral fellowships, Post-Doc Programme of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Marine Biology Laboratory, Sessile Marine Invertebrates Section of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane (Australia)

• Wo896/20-1 “Filling the gap: Sponge morphology in the phylogenomic era – FlaGShiP” (2018-2021)
  
• Wo896/19-1 "Sponge TaxonOMICS" (within DFG Priority Program "Taxon-OMICS: new approaches for species discovery" (with PD Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck & Dr. Sergio Vargas, 2017-2020)
  
• Wo896/18-1 "Molecular biomineralization of octocoral skeletons: calcite versus aragonite" (MINORCA) (with Dr. Sergio Vargas; 2017-2020)
  
• Wo896/15-1 "Molecular paleobiology of lithistid sponges - reconstructing patterns and timing of diversification" (with PD Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck; 2014-2017)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) "Comparative Genomics of Non-Model Invertebrates" (IGNITE) (Coordinator; 2018-2021) http://www.itn-ignite.eu