Christoph Gierl. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Straße 10, 80333 Munich, Bavaria, Germany; c.gierl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Christoph Gierl is a palaeontologist and a scientific assistant at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) Munich. There he got his Master degree in Geological Sciences. His interests lie in taxonomy, systematics and palaeogeography of fossil gobiiforms. He is currently working on a project on their fossil record and phylogeny.

Bettina Reichenbacher. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Straße 10, 80333 Munich, Bavaria, Germany; b.reichenbacher@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Bettina Reichenbacher is professor for palaeontology at LMU Munich. She is interested in the evolution of Miocene teleost groups in the context of the geological history. Current projects comprise the evolutionary history of the European Gobiiformes, the cichlid fossils from Miocene palaeolakes in the Central Kenya Rift and the Iranian killifish genus Aphanius.
Further information on the two latter projects can be found here:
http://www.en.palaeontologie.geowissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/forsch_gebiete/kenya/index.html
http://www.killi-data.org/infoweb18.php