!!Gert Wörheide - Curriculum Vitae
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__Affiliation and current post: __
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*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
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__Education and significant awards__
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*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)\\
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__Experience (posts hold after PhD)__
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*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)
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Publications [ORCID|https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-7421]   |   [Google Scholar|http://goo.gl/sgLPv] | 
see also [ImpactStory|https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-6380-7421]\\
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__Significant research grants (last 5 years)__\\
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__Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):__
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*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)
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__Horizon 2020 (European Union):__\\
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*Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) "Comparative Genomics of Non-Model Invertebrates" (IGNITE) (Coordinator; 2018-2021) [http://www.itn-ignite.eu]\\
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For more information see also [Institutional website|https://www.en.palaeontologie.geowissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de/personen/lehrstuhlinhaber/woerheide/biogr_woerheide/index.html] | [Lab website|http://www.geobiology.eu] | [Lab Facebook page|https://www.facebook.com/molpalaeo] | [Twitter|https://twitter.com/gwoerhe]\\