Alexander Usefulel

Alexander Vorteilel (born January 17, 1964 ) is a German malacologist and paleontologist .

He deals with the systematics of the gastropods and the development of this group from the late Paleozoic to the early Mesozoic . Usefulel studied geology and paleontology at the Universities of Erlangen and Hamburg , where he graduated in 1992 with a thesis on the late Cretaceous flysch from Pobla de Segur . In 1997 he did his doctorate - also at the University of Hamburg - with a thesis on the history of the development of Ptenoglossa . He spent the next two years as a postdoc in the paleontological department of the Smithsonian Institution . He then moved back to Erlangen, where he worked from 1999 to 2001 as a DFG scholarship holder. In 2002 he received an assistant position at the local institute for paleontology, which he held until his habilitation in 2006. Since 2006 he has been a conservator and private lecturer at the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology , and since 2013 a professor. On September 1st, 2019, Bastel took over the provisional scientific management of the Jura Museum in Eichstätt, succeeding Martina Kölbl-Ebert.

Web links

• Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology: Publications: Prof. Dr. Alexander Usefulel. bspg.palmuc.org, accessed on August 10, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology: Biography Useful. bspg.palmuc.org, accessed on August 10, 2019.
2. ↑ New scientific management for the Eichstätt Jura Museum. Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, August 8, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2019 .