![]() |
Department of Palaeontology
|
!
Get a great interdisciplinary BSc or MSc
project !
!
Often with field work at spectacular sites worldwide
!
Finish with your first publications in high-ranking journals
!
Interested? look here ...
| Vita |
year/place of birth:
|
1962 - Köthen (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) |
|
living
place:
|
since 1984 in the old silver mining town Freiberg (Saxony, Germany) |
|
|
family
status:
|
married, one daughter |
|
|
1984-1989:
|
studies in geology-palaeontology (Freiberg University) |
|
|
1989:
|
diploma thesis "Palaeontology, lithology and depositional history of the Cambrian carbonates of the Görlitz synclinorium (East Germany)" | |
|
1992:
|
phd thesis "Facies analysis of the Cambrian carbonates of Germany" |
|
|
1992:
|
assistant professor at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University) |
|
|
1993-1995:
|
university rector's assistent (Freiberg University) |
|
|
since 1995:
|
assistant professor at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University) |
|
|
2009:
|
professorial (habilitation) thesis "Cambrian life in Mediterranean carbonate environments and consequences for the geological reconstruction of the early Palaeozoic Perigondwana" (submitted) |
|
| Professional interests |
|
|
| Memberships | ||
| Editorships | ||
For descriptions and for supplementary material (scripts) of the lessons, for organizational and special data of recent and future field trips, and for any handouts to these events, please, use the Palaeontology in Freiberg homepage and its subunit Lehre (in German; elaborately) respectively Education (short English version).
| Basics in Micropalaeontology (lectures & practices) | |
| Basics in Palaeontology (practices & seminars) | |
| Paleoecology (lectures, practices & seminars) | |
| Applied Palaeontology & Stratigraphy (lectures, sporadicly) | |
| Palaeobiology (lectures) | |
| Evolution of System Earth (2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-2010: lectures) | |
| Field trip: Marine Biotops (2 days) | |
| Field trip: Precambrian-Cambrian of Lusatia (2 days) | |
| Field trip: Northern Bohemia (Eger-Rift Graben), (2 days) | |
| Field trip: Applied Palaeontology & Stratigraphy (2 days) |
![]() education and training in the field |
| Field trip: Palecology (2 days) | |
| First- and second-year-mapping-courses (2 weeks) | |
| Field course: North Sea & Baltic Sea - Stratigraphy and Facies Patterns (2 weeks) | |
| Field course: Palaeontology/Biostratigraphy/Biofacies (2 to 3 weeks) | |
| Other field trips: Geological abroad excursions (Jordan, Israel, Sardinia: sporadicly, about 3 weeks) |
Supervised Phd/diploma/MSc-alumni |
went to ... |
| Ines Flatter | Bremen University |
| Jens Wendler | Bremen University /Jena University |
| Andreas Torn | |
| Petra Münzberger | Regensburg University |
| Muftah A.M. Altumi | Libyan Petroleum Institute, Tripolis |
| Thomas Wotte | Münster University |
| Yvonne Hamann | Leipzig University / ETH Zurich |
| Kerstin Fohlert | Geopark "Inselberg - Drei Gleichen" |
| Stephan Brauner | Geopark "Inselberg - Drei Gleichen" |
| Steffi Schmidt | IFM-Geomar - Kiel University |
| Thomas Biener | Bremen University |
| Matthias W. Zeidler | Beak Consultants Corp. |
| Richard Hofmann | Zurich University |
|
topic
|
focal points
|
duration
|
research partners
|
| Cambrian Sinai | sedimentology, facies model, palaeogeography, biostratigraphy; ichnology , palecology |
2009 - |
M. Khalifa (Cairo) |
| Cambrian Libya | depositional model, facies, palaeogeography, biostratigraphy |
2007 - |
M.A.M. Altumi (Tripolis) |
| Cambrian Turkey | microfossils, palecology, depositional model, palaeogeography, biostratigraphy |
2006 - |
S. Gürsu, |
| Cambrian Jordan | carbonate facies analysis, microfossils, depositional model, palaeogeography, trophic structures, palecology, biostratigraphy, ichnology |
1997 -
|
R. Shinaq (Irbid), F. Ahmad (Amman), K. Bandel (Hamburg), G. Mangano (Saskatoon) |
| Cambrian Sardinia (Italy) | carbonate facies analysis, small shelly fossils, trilobites; palecology, environment, trophic structures |
1995 -
|
G.L. Pillola (Cagliari), |
| Cambrian Germany | carbonate facies analysis, small shelly fossils, trilobites, archaeocyaths; palaeontology, palecology, environment, depositional model, palaeogeography, trophic structures |
1987 -
|
F. Debrenne (Paris), G . Geyer (Würzburg) |
| Cambrian Cantabria (Spain) | microfossils, palecology, trophic structures, depositional model, palaeogeography, biostratigraphy |
2003-2007
|
Th. Wotte (Freiberg), E. Moreno-Eiris, A. Perejón (both Madrid) |
| Devonian Germany | volcanism and following carbonate sedimentation
the Vogtland area; facies analysis and depositional model; carbonate facies analysis of the Elbtal-Schiefergebirge Mountains |
1997-2000
|
M. Kurze, B. Gaitzsch, U. Lehmann |
| Permian Germany | microfacies and depositional model of upper Permian carbonates |
1996-1997
|
I. Flatter, J. Wendler |
| Triassic Germany | microfacies, diagenesis, and depositional model of Lower Triassic mixed deposits |
2008 -
|
J.W. Schneider |
|
support institution
|
topic
|
duration
|
personal staff
|
| German Research Council (DFG) | Cambrian of Turkey (palaeontology, palecology, palaeobiogeography, sedimentary facies). |
(in preparation)
|
O. Elicki, |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Basal Cambrian in southern Sardinia. |
(in preparation)
|
O. Elicki, |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Environments and correlation of early post-Panafrican facies realms at the northern margin of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (Egypt, Israel, Jordan). |
2009 -
|
O. Elicki, |
| Libyan Petroleum Institute (LPI) | Cambrian of Libya (palaeontology, palecology, palaeobiogeography, sedimentary facies). |
2007 -
|
O. Elicki, |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Palaeontology, stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the marine Cambrian from the Dead Sea area with special respect to the microfaunas of Jordan and their correlation to the European Shelf of Gondwana. |
2004-2007
|
O. Elicki, R. Shinaq, G. Mangano, R. Hofmann |
| Geological Survey of Saxony | Conodonts in the palaeozoic of Saxony. |
2005-2006
|
O. Elicki, |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Cambrian in Cantabria and Asturoccidental-Leonese zones and in the Sierra Morena: "Aspectos sedimentológicos, paleobiológicos, tectónicos y metalogenéticos de las sucesiones del Cámbrico en la Península Ibérica y su reflejo en las crisis biológicas de los primeros metazoos." |
2004-2006
|
A. Perejón, |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Micro-faunas of the Early to Middle Cambrian Láncara Formation (Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain): micropalaeontology, palaeobiogeography and dynamics in the Early to Middle Cambrian of W Gondwana. |
2003-2006
|
Th. Wotte, O. Elicki, A. Perejón, E. Moreno-Eiris, Th. Biener |
| Geological Survey of Saxony | Investigation on early Palaeozoic low grade metamorphosed units of Saxony: biostratigraphy, regional geology and new methodical approaches. |
2003-2004
|
O. Elicki, |
| German Research Council (DFG), Jordan Higher Council for Science and Technology (HCST) | Palecology and environment analysis of Cambrian carbonates of the southern Dead Sea region (Jordan). |
2000-2002
|
O. Elicki,
J. Schneider, R. Shinaq, K. Bandel |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Facies and palecology in the final stage of a Cambrian carbonate platform - the small shelly fauna of the Campo Pisano Fm. / SW Sardinia. |
1997-2003
|
O. Elicki,
P. Münzberger, Y. Hamann, Th. Wotte |
| German Research Council (DFG) | Cambrian carbonates of Germany: palaeobiogeography, fauna and facies analysis. |
1992-1997
|
O. Elicki,
J. Schneider |
|
name / topic
|
duration
|
| FREIBERG 1997 "Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and Basin Development in the Carboniferous and Permian", Colloquium at Freiberger Geotage (48th BHT-Conference). |
June, 18th - 21st, 1997
|
| FREIBERG 2002 "Late Carboniferous to Early Triassic of Central Europe - Processes and their Timing" Workshop at Freiberger Geotage (53rd BHT-Conference). |
June, 21st - 23rd, 2002
|
| FREIBERG 2004 "Late Westphalian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of the Variscan Foreland and adjacent intramontane basins" (Central European Meeting of IGCP 469) & "Environmental reconstruction and stratigraphy in the Palaeozoic" (COTTA workshop). |
October, 9th - 11th, 2004
|
| FREIBERG 2007 "Fossil Ecosystems", 77. Annual Meeting of the German Palaeontological Society. |
September, 16th - 20th, 2007
|
| FREIBERG 2009 "DARWIN COLLOQUIUM" in honour of the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species ..." and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. |
June, 11th - 13th, 2009
|