Björn Kröger
Research associate
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions
und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Invalidenstr. 43
D-10115 Berlin
Germany

Björn Kröger received his Diploma and Ph.D. at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He had Postdoctoral positions at the Universität Hamburg, the Ohio University, Athens, the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, the Université de Sciences et Technologie de Lille, France, and is currently scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.

His major research focus is on the macroevolution of Paleozoic non-ammonoid cephalopods (“nautiloids”). His field experience is in the Ordovician of Estonia, Norway, Sweden, and New York, and the Devonian of Morocco. His current scientific activities are concerned with mechanisms of the diversification during the Ordovician Radiation, and the role of cephalopods in marine Paleozoic ecosystems.