Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide

October 2019 - September 2021

Vice-Dean, Faculty of Geosciences

June 2019

Elected as Ordinary Member into the Academia Europea (European Academy of Sciences)

October 2017 - September 2019

Dean, Faculty of Geosciences

October 2014 - September 2017

Deputy Director, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

October 2013 - September 2017

Vice-Dean, Faculty of Geosciences

October 2011 - September 2013

Dean, Faculty of Geosciences

January 2009 until present

Speaker, GeoBio-CenterLMU

December 2008 until present

Member, Executive Board, GeoBio-CenterLMU

October 2008 until present

Director, Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology & Geology
Director, Palaeontological & Geological Museum Munich

October 2008 until present

Professor (Chair) of Palaeontology, Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.

April 2002 - September 2008

Juniorprofessor for Geobiology at the Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen, Abt. Geobiologie.

April 2002 until present

Honorary Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre of Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

April 2000 - December 2002

Honorary Research Consultant, Department of Zoology and Entomology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.

April 2000 - March 2002

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the ABRS at the Queensland Centre of Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Title of project: Australian calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea): biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef fauna, taxonomy and systematics of Australian species.

April 1998 - March 2000

Post-Doctoral fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to work at the Marine Biology Laboratory (working group of Dr. John Hooper) of the Queensland Museum in Brisbane (Australia). Title of project: 'Actuopaleontology and taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from cryptic habitats of the Great Barrier Reef (Australia)'.

June 1998

The 'Inge und Werner Grüter-Preis für Wissenschaftspublizistik 1998' ('Inge und Werner Grüter-prize for Scientific Journalism'), awarded to the German coordination group of the 'International Year of the Reef 1997', of which I was a key member, for their efforts in the dissemination of scientific knowledge on coral reefs, their ecology, and their threats.

January 1998

Book prize of the Fakultät für Geowissenschaften of the Georg-August-University Göttingen for outstanding results of Ph.D. thesis and examination.

January 1998

Ph.D. (Doctor rerum naturalium) at the Fakultät für Geowissenschaften of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Title of Ph.D. thesis: 'The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana LISTER 1900 from the Indo-Pacific. - Micromorphology, Ultrastructure, Biomineralization, Isotope Record, Taxonomy, Biogeography, Phylogeny.'

January 1997 - December 1997

Member of the German committee of the'International Year of the Reef 1997', coordinator of the 'Red Sea ReefCheck 97'.

October 1994 - December 1996

Research scientist at the Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ph.D. project on geobiology of coralline sponges from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia).

March 1994

Diplom in Geology/Paleontology, equivalent to 'Master of Science' degree. Diplom-Thesis: 'Comparative biometry and ecomorphology of boreal and mediterranean populations of the genus Echinocardium GRAY 1855'.