Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Sigwartstrasse 10
72076 Tübingen
Germany

Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner, born 1959 in Bad Kreuznach, studied Chemistry, Physics, and Biology at the University of Kaiserslautern. In 1989 he received the Dr. rer. nat. for his dissertation thesis about enamel biomechanics in mammals. From 1989 on he was assistant at the Institute of Paläontology at the University in Bonn. There, he finished his habilitation thesis about biometric studies on skulls of ungulates in 1995. Since 1999, he is Professor for Vertebrate Paleontology at the Institute for Geosciences in Tübingen.