Joachim Reitner

Joachim Reitner (born May 6, 1952 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German paleontologist .

Life

Reitner received his diploma and doctorate from the University of Tübingen (1984). He completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin in 1991 and was appointed to the chair of geobiology at the University of Göttingen in 1994 .

Reitner studies the interaction between organisms (especially their metabolic processes) and abiotic factors. He is concerned with a. with biomineralization and the interaction between microbes and multicellular organisms ( metazoa ), e.g. B. symbiotic microbes from sponges or bio mats.

Since 1998 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . From 2013 to 2015 he was President of the Paleontological Society .

Awards

Leibniz Prize 1996.

Fonts

J. Reitner: Geobiological aspects of Hadaic, archaic and Proterozoic worlds. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. 2008, pp. 241-256.
J. Reitner, G. Schumann, K. Pedersen: Fungi in subterranean environments. In: GM Gadd (Ed.): Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 378-403.
J. Reitner: Calcifying extracellular mucus substances (EMS) of Madrepora oculata - a first geobiological approach. In: A. Freiwald, JM Roberts: Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin 2005, pp. 731-744.
J. Reitner, G. Arp, V. Thiel, P. Gautret, U. Galling, W. Michaelis: Organic matter in Great Salt Lake Ooids (Utah, USA) -First approach to a formation via organic matrices. In: Facies. 36, Erlangen 1997, pp. 210-219.

Web links

Prof. Dr. Joachim Reitner. at the Geoscientific Museum of the University of Göttingen (English)
Publications by Joachim Reitner on GoeScholar (publication server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Individual evidence

^ J. Reitner: Architecture of Archaeal-Dominated Microbial Mats from Cold Seeps in the Black Sea (Dnieper Canyon, Lower Crimean Shelf). In: J. Seckbach, A. Oren (Eds.): Microbial Mats: Modern and Ancient Microorganisms in Stratified Systems, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. 14, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 207–220.

personal data
SURNAME	Reitner, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Garmisch-Partenkirchen

[1] J. Reitner: Architecture of Archaeal-Dominated Microbial Mats from Cold Seeps in the Black Sea (Dnieper Canyon, Lower Crimean Shelf). In: J. Seckbach, A. Oren (Eds.): Microbial Mats: Modern and Ancient Microorganisms in Stratified Systems, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. 14, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 207–220.