Helmut Keupp

Helmut Keupp (born September 7, 1949 in Augsburg ) is a German paleontologist and geologist. He is a professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin .

Keupp studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Erlangen with a diploma in 1974 and a doctorate in 1977. In 1981 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen in paleontology and in 1982 in geology and palaeontology at the Ruhr University Bochum , where he served as a teacher from 1981 to 1986 was. In 1987 he became a professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1997 to 2003 he was Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and from 2003 Vice President of the Free University of Berlin. He is the managing director of the Institute for Paleontology at the Free University of Berlin.

He dealt with ammonites , calcareous dinoflagellates of the Mesozoic Era, fossil sponges and researched in the Neogene of Greece and Crete.

In 1982 he received the Emmy Noether Prize in Erlangen, 1985 the Albert Maucher Prize of the DFG and in 2001 the Konstantinos Ktenas Prize of the Athens Academy of Sciences. In 1991 he was Honorary President of the International Round Table on Lithographic Limestones in Lyon.

In 1992 he was the founding editor of the Berlin Palaeobiological Treatises. He is on the editorial board of Fazies .

Fonts

• Editor with J. Reitner: Fossil and recent sponges, Berlin 1991.
• Ammonites. Paleobiological Spirals of Success. Jan Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-9086-2
• Atlas on the paleopathology of the cephalopods , Berlin 2012

Web links

• Homepage, FU Berlin