Doris Nagel

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Doris Nagel is an Austrian paleontologist .

Life

Nagel received her diploma in 1990 from the University of Vienna on the evolution of voles in the lower Pleistocene of Austria and received her doctorate in 1996 with a dissertation on Pleistocene cats from a cave in Greece. She has been a scientist at the Institute for Paleontology at the University of Vienna since 1988, assistant professor since 1992, qualified as a professor in 2001 ( tertiary mammals ) and has been a university professor since 2001. From 2009 to 2010 she was director of the Institute for Paleontology and from 2011 deputy director.

She deals with the phylogeography of mammals especially in the Pleistocene and Pliocene and here especially predators. She carried out excavations and investigations of the Quaternary vertebrate fauna in caves in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, the Ukraine, for example cave lions, cave hyenas and cave bears as well as various rodents. She also uses DNA analysis.

From 1988 to 1990 and 1996 to 1998 she was secretary of the Austrian Paleontological Society and from 2002 to 2004 its president. She is Vice President of the Paleontological Society .

In 1997 she received the Othenio Abel Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the paleobiology of Pleistocene cats (felids). She is editor of the contributions to paleontology.

She is married and has a daughter.

Fonts

  • with Gernot Rabeder, Martina Pacher Der Höhlenbär , Thorbecke Verlag 2000
  • with Gernot Rabeder Fossil animal remains from Lower Austrian caves , Lower Austrian State Museum 1997
  • with Thomas Hofmann, Ilse Draxler, Reinhard Roetzel Excursions in the Tertiary of Austria: Molasse Zone, Waschberg Zone, Korneuburg Basin, Vienna Basin, Eisenstadt Basin , Austrian Paleontological Society 1991
  • with Gernot Rabeder excursions in the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Austria: the loosens and caves of the Waldviertel and Weinviertel, the calcareous caves , Austrian Paleontological Society 1991
  • The Nixloch near Losenstein-Ternberg , reports from the Quaternary Research Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The evolution of the arvicolids (Rodentia, Mammalia) in the Young Pleistocene of Austria
  2. ↑ The Cats of Vraona. Young Pleistocene felid remains from a cave in Attica, Greece.
personal data
SURNAME Nagel, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century