Nicola S. Heckeberg. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany; Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB), Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, D-80333 München, Germany; Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, D-80333 München, Germany. nicola.heckeberg@mfn.berlin
Nicola Heckeberg mainly investigates the evolutionary history and systematics of ruminants, especially cervids (deer), but has a general interest in vertebrate evolution and comparative anatomy. She completed a BSc (TU Munich, 2008) and MSc (LMU Munich, 2011) in Earth Sciences and another MSc (University of Bristol, 2010) in Palaeobiology. In 2017 she got her PhD (LMU Munich and in collaboration with the University of Cambridge) and has since worked as a lecturer at the LMU and as a postdoc at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Oliver W. M. Rauhut. Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB), Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, D-80333 München, Germany; Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, D-80333 München, Germany; GeoBioCenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, D-80333 München, Germany. rauhut@snsb.de
Oliver Rauhut mainly works on dinosaur anatomy and evolution, but is interested in everything to do with Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems. He got a diploma from the Free University of Berlin in 1995 and a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2000. As postdoc at the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew, Argentina, he initiated an extensive fieldwork project in Jurassic rocks of Chubut Province, Argentina, which has yielded abundant new data on Jurassic terrestrial ecosystmens in South America. Since taking on the job as curator of lower vertebrates at the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology in Munich in 2004, he has increasingly also worked on basal archosauriform anatomy and systematics. Since 2007 he furthermore holds a post as adjunct professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
