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Dr. Florent Rivals
Post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Florent Rivals is interested in seasonality in the diets of Pleistocene ungulates analysed by dental microwear and
mesowear analyses. He reconstructs the dietary history of North American and European ungulates and its relationship with
climatic and morphological evolution. The major topics are the Mousterian cultures of the Caucasus: Russia, Georgia,
and Azerbaijan (120 000 - 35 000 years ago), replacement process of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens and the evolution
of the Caprinae (Ovis, Capra, and Hemitragus) in mountainous areas (Caucasus and Pyrenees). |
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Dr. Gildas Merceron
Post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Gildas Merceron is an expert in dental microwear analyses, dietary reconstructions, and ecology of extinct ungulates and
primates. He has applied this research expertise for understanding the feeding habits of hominoids (Ouranopithecus, Khoratpithecus)
and cercopithecoids (Mesopithecus) from Eurasia and the environmental dynamics in the peri-Mediterranean region. |
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Juliane Brasch
Diploma student
Her course of studies is Landscape ecology and conservation at the University of Greifswald. She is writing her diploma thesis with
the title "Comparative analyses in dental wear of ruminants from zoological gardens and field-grown habitats". Within this work she is
looking for differences in the mesowear signals of wild and captive ruminants. |
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Dr. Roman Croitor
Post-doctoral research fellow (funding by DAAD
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Christine Wolff
diploma student
Forschungsinteressen • Nahrungsdiversität und Zahnnutzung
rezenter und fossiler Primaten • Untersuchung mikroskopischer
Abnutzungen (Dental Microwear) an den Zähnen verschiedener
Primaten mit Hilfe profilometrischer Messungen • Analysen
der Dental Microwear zur Rekonstruktion der Paläodiät
fossiler Arten.
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Marcus Mau
diploma student
Studiengang: Humanbiologie
Studienfächer: Funktionelle Morphologie (Hauptfach)
Immunologie (1. Nebenfach)
Mikrobiologie/Virologie (2.Nebenfach)
Voraussichtliches Studienende: Herbst 2004
Forschungsinteressen:• Nahrungsadaptationen
bei rezenten Wiederkäuern
• Hypothese des Zusammenwirkens von Speichelproteinen
und Zahnoberflächen bei der Abrasionsverringerung
• z.Zt. Diplomarbeit: „Vergleichende in
vitro-Studie zur Ausbildung von Proteinfilmen auf
Zähnen aus dem Speichel rezenter Wiederkäuer“
[Betreuung: Dr. habil.Thomas M. Kaiser, Prof. J.-P.
Hildebrandt]
weitere Interessengebiete:• Evolution der Primaten
und des Menschen
• Morphologie und Lebensweise der Dinosaurier
• Paläontologie
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Regine Brandenburg
technician
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Jutta Schering
technician
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Bärbel Reinhold
technician
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Fay Geisler
student assistant
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Jennifer Kohls
diploma student
special interestes: Taphonomy and Osteoarchaeology
of cattle
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Kurt Langguth
Preparator (Tübingen)
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Dipl. Biol. Peggy Giertz
PhD student, techical assistant
research interests: Reconstruction of dietary strategies in extant and fossil hoofed mammals using
microwear analysis.
Evolution of functional adaptations in the dentition of the Artiodactyla and and Perissodactyla
Paleoecology, evolutionary biology, paleoclimatology,
paleogeography
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Gesa Brinkmann
diploma student
quantification of dental micrpwear
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Sigrun Hesse
student assistant
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