Marco Schade. University of Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, 17489 Greifswald, Germany. marco.schade@uni-greifswald.de
Between 2014 and 2019, he studied Geology at the University in Greifswald (B.Sc.) and Geobiology & Paleobiology at the LMU in Munich (M.Sc.). From 2019 on, he worked on his dissertation about fossil skull material of non-avian dinosaurs which was finished in Greifswald, 2022.
André Deutschmann. University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography and Geology, 17489 Greifswald, Germany. ad023399@uni-greifswald.de
André works at the Geological Service of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a 3D modeller of the deep subsurface. He is interested in regional geology and research of glacial erratic boulder. He studied Geology (B.Sc.) and Geoscience and Environment (M.Sc.) at the University of Greifswald from 2005 to 2010.
Christian Foth. University of Fribourg, Department of Geosciences, 17000 Fribourg, Switzerland. christian.foth@gmx.net
Christian Foth is a palaeozoologist specialized in reptile evolution with a focus on the origin of birds. He got a Diploma from the University of Rostock in 2009 and a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 2013. He further worked at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he gained a state doctorate. Beside his contributions to early bird evolution, he further worked on turtles and basal archosaurs using phylogenetic comparative analyses.
Carina Paetzel. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, 6856 Sogndal, Norway. carina.paetzel@hvl.no
Carina Paetzel is an ecologist, with an interest in nature conservation and paleobiology. She studied Biodiversity and Ecology (M.Sc.) at the University of Greifswald. In June 2023, she finished her master’s thesis about ontogenetic changes in the braincase of Europasaurus holgeri.
Tobias Püttmann. Geological Survey of North Rhine-Westphalia, 47803 Krefeld, Germany. tobias.puettmann@gd.nrw.de
Tobias Püttmann is a geologist and micropalaeontologist specialized in the field of calcareous nannofossils. Between 2009 and 2021, he studied and worked at the Faculty of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum. His M.Sc. and PhD studies are focused on integrated stratigraphy and palaeoecology of calcareous nannofossils from Late Cretaceous near-shore settings. Since 2019, he works for the Geological Survey of North Rhine-Westphalia as a mapping geologist and biostratigrapher of Meso- and Cenozoic sediments.
Michael Kenzler. University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography and Geology, 17489 Greifswald, Germany. kenzlerm@uni-greifswald.de
Michael Kenzler worked between 2012 and 2024 as a Quaternary geologist specializing in sedimentology and luminescence dating at the Institute of Geography and Geology (University Greifswald). He recently joined the State Office of the Environment of Schleswig-Holstein (LfU) as a geologist in the field of 3D modeling of the Quaternary base.
Sebastian Stumpf. University of Vienna, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, Department of Palaeontology, 1090 Vienna, Austria. sebastian.stumpf@univie.ac.at
Sebastian Stumpf is a palaeontologist specialising in various aspects of Mesozoic chondrichthyan evolution and diversity, but also in other vertebrates that lived alongside them. He received his PhD from the University of Greifswald, Germany, in 2017 and is currently working at the University of Vienna, Austria.
