Nils Henkemeier. Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg, 07407 Saalfeld, Germany. nils-henkemeier@t-online.de
Nils Henkemeier was a Master's student in the Geosciences' programm at the university of Bonn. He finished his Master's thesis called "Redescription of the soft part preservation in the holotype of Scaphognathus crassirostris by using RTI (Goldfuß, 1831)". His research interest include the flying reptiles of the Mesozoic, pterosaurs, basal archosaurs, especially pseudosuchians, soft part preservation of unique Fossillagerstätten, evolutionary theoretical concepts and the great mass extinction events with implications for the modern-day ecological crisis. He is currently working as a research associate at the Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt.
P. Martin Sander. Abteilung Paläontologie, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany. martin.sander@uni-bonn.de
P. Martin Sander is professor of vertebrate paleontology at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Bonn and previously had been the curator of its Goldfuß Museum for over 10 years. After his undergraduate work at the University of Freiburg in Germany, Dr. Sander obtained a Master's degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984 and a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1989. Since then, he has divided his research interests between the more traditional work in paleontology such as excavating and studying Triassic marine reptiles around the globe, and a more biological approach to extinct vertebrates, using the microstructure of fossil bone as a clue to life history and evolution. A spectacular application was the proof that dinosaurs were subject to island dwarfing. In 2004, Dr. Sander was able to obtain major funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the study of dinosaur biology and headed DFG Research Unit 533 "Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism” until 2014. Since 1987, Dr. Sander has authored numerous scientifc papers and books on his research, and since 1995 has trained many graduate students at the University of Bonn.
Kai R.K. Jäger. Division of Paleontology, Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy, and Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany. jaegerk@uni-bonn.de
Kai Jäger gained his Diploma in Geology and Paleontology in 2013 at the University of Bonn. His diploma thesis was based on the postcranial skeleton of the Jurassic mammal Henkelotherium guimarotae. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Professor Thomas Martin’s lab at the Steinmann Institute. His research interest include Mesozoic mammals, functional morphology of dentitions, as well as mammalian locomotion. Micro-computed tomography (CT) and other techniques for digital visualization and analysis of fossils such as reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) are frequently used methods in most of his projects. Since 2010, he is the student representative and since 2012 a representative for Marketing and PR for the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. Science outreach is of special interest to Kai Jäger. He participates in science slams and won the German science slam championship in 2014.
