Jens Lehmann (paleontologist)

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Jens Lehmann

Jens Lehmann (* 1969 in Rheine ) is a German paleontologist , professor at the University of Bremen , curator and head of the Geoscientific Collection at the University of Bremen.

Life

Lehmann studied geology and paleontology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 1990 to 1995 and graduated with a thesis on the Paleozoic of the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain (diploma 1995). From 1995 to 1998 he did his doctorate at the University of Tübingen with the topic "Integrated stratigraphy, palaeoenvironment and ammonite palaeontology of the Cenomanian - Lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of northern Westphalia, North Germany". From 1998 to 1999 he did research on the Cretaceous Period in North America as a post-doc in the DAAD program at the University of California, Davis . He then held a post-doc position in the Collaborative Research Center 275 (“Geoecosystems”) at the University of Tübingen until 2000 . In the same year he moved to the University of Bremen and has since been head of the Geoscientific Collection at the University of Bremen.

Since then he has conducted research in the USA, China and North Africa, among others. He spent several longer research stays at the Natural History Museum, London as part of the Synthesys program of the European Commission. In 2010 Lehmann completed his habilitation on “Biota and palaeoenvironmental change during the Cretaceous Greenhouse climate”. In 2019 he was appointed professor at the University of Bremen. Lehmann has so far written more than 100 geoscientific publications in the field of public relations. As a science communicator, he is also known to the public through numerous lectures, popular science articles and exhibitions such as "Dinosaurs - Traces of a Past World" in the Bremen "House of Science".

He was already engaged in palaeontology as a schoolboy and in 1984 found the best-preserved skeleton of the archosaur Protorosaurus speneri (Hermann von Meyer, 1832) in the copper slate of Oberperm near Ibbenbüren, which was classified as a movable ground monument and is unique in the world.

He is also known regionally in Bremen and the surrounding area for the series of lectures he leads by the "Geoscientific Working Group". In 2013 he pushed the foundation of the non-profit association “Friends of the Geoscientific Collection of the University of Bremen” in order to support the work of the Geoscientific Collection of the University of Bremen in its entirety.

Lehmann is co-editor of the journal New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology - Abhandlungen.

Research priorities

Lehmann's main research areas are paleoenvironmental reconstruction, diversity and ammonites . The geological focus of Lehmann's work lies in the Cretaceous Period, and in recent years increasingly in the Triassic period . In addition to numerous national grants for his research from the German Research Foundation (DFG), he received the "Richard Owen Research Fund Award" from the Palaeontographical Society, London in 2014.

Honors

French and Swiss geoscientists named a new genus of fossils in honor of Jens Lehmann in an issue of the specialist journal "Cretaceous Research": Jenslehmannella . When Jens Lehmann Ella is an ammonite , precisely one unfurled or heteromorphic ammonites. In the English-language explanation for the choice of name it says: "Named in honor of the German paleontologist PD Dr. Jens Lehmann (Bremen) for his many contributions to the paleontology of Cretaceous ammonites which have increased our understanding of this group of animals". From Jens Lehmann Ella is so far only a kind known - Jens Lehmann Ella bangestanense - and the dates on 120 million year old rock formations of Aptiums in Iran . The species bangestanense was named after Kuh-e-Bangestan in the southwest of Iran, the place where a Jenslehmannella was first excavated.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Willems: New head of the geoscientific collection at the University of Bremen . In: GMit. Geoscientific communications . No. 4 , 2001, p. 102 .
  2. ^ Rainer Ebel: 100th lecture in the Doberg Museum in Bünde . In: GMit. Geoscientific communications . No. 63 , 2016, p. 79-80 .
  3. ↑ a b Marlene Göring-Kruse: Who does the dinosaur belong to? A geoscientist about laypeople and professionals in paleontology. In: Stern . No. 4 , 2020, p. 84 .
  4. ↑ a b Marlene Göring-Kruse: Who does my dinosaur belong to? Professor Jens Lehmann on the competition between paleontologists, commercial firms and private collectors . In: National Geographic Germany . No. 10 , 2019, pp. 134-135 .
  5. ↑ Karla Götz: What is knocking there? Bremen geologists dig for fossils in the Nevada desert . In: Highlights. Information magazine of the University of Bremen . 2018, p. 24-29 .
  6. ^ Jens Lehmann: Bremen: The paleontological research collection of the Geosciences Collection of the University of Bremen . In: Lothar A. Beck & Ulrich Joger (Eds.): Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-77400-8 , pp. 93-113 .
  7. ↑ Rainer Schoch: Archosaurs - the diversity of the "ruling lizards" in the Germanic Triassic. Ed .: Fossils. tape 33 , no. 4 , 2016, p. 44-45 .
  8. ^ Riegraf, W .: Monument protection in North Rhine-Westphalia - protection of valuable cultural assets or ban on fossil collection? Ed .: Fossils. tape 7 , no. 5 , 1990, pp. 223-227 .
  9. ↑ Anonymous: Westphalian fossils. In: fossils . tape 23 , no. 5 , 2006, p. 259-260 .
  10. ↑ Oliver Friedrich: Richard Owen Award for Jens Lehmann . In: GMit. Geoscientific communications . tape 56 , 2014, p. 67-68 .
  11. ^ Anonymous: British award for Bremen paleontologist / British award for Bremen paleontologist . In: Bernd Scholz-Reiter (Ed.): Yearbook of the University of Bremen / Yearbook of the University of Bremen Vol. 2014 . 2015, p. 93 .
  12. ↑ Luc G. Bulot, Camille Frau, Antoine Pictet: Revision of Toxoceratoides royeri (d'Orbigny, 1842) and its bearing on the systematics of the Aptian Acrioceratidae Vermeulen, 2004 (Ammonoidea, Ancyloceratina, Ancyloceratoidea). In: Cretaceous Research . tape 88 , 2018, p. 187-196 .
  13. ↑ Jürgen Wendler: Great moments of science. Story of life . Ed .: Weser-Kurier. Bremen May 18, 2017, p. 18 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German palaeontologist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine