Barbara Meller
Institute of Palaeontology
University of Vienna
Althanstr. 14
1090 Vienna
Austria

Study of geology and palaeontology at the University of Mainz, Germany, finished with a diploma thesis about an upper Miocene leaf assemblage from the Mainz Basin, Germany.

Study of palaeontology at the University of Vienna in Austria, finished with a Ph.D. thesis about Early Miocene seed and fruit assemblages from a Styrian lignite area.

Main research topics are Neogene floras and their evolutionary, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic implications, and to a minor amount the Triassic Lunz Formation in Lower Austria and Permian plant fossils from the Dolomites (Italy).