Reinhold Leinfelder

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Reinhold Leinfelder (born March 21, 1957 in Augsburg ) is a German paleontologist and geobiologist .

Career

Leinfelder studied geology and paleontology at the University of Munich . As a researcher and research assistant, he worked from 1981 to 1989 at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Mainz , where he 1985 Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. The dissertation received the university award. In 1989 , Leinfelder completed his habilitation in geology and palaeontology.

At the end of 1989 he accepted a professorship for geology and paleontology at the University of Stuttgart . There, Leinfelder headed the Department of Historical Geology and Stratigraphy of the Institute for Geology and Paleontology. He later moved to the Institute for Paleontology and Historical Geology at the University of Munich.

From 2003 to 2005 he was Director General of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections . From October 2005 to May 2007 he was the spokesman for the directors' conference of the Natural Science Research Collections in Germany.

From January 2006 to the end of 2010 he was General Director of the Berlin Museum of Natural History . At the same time, he was Professor of Paleontology and Geobiology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from January 2006 to March 2011 .

From May 2007 to June 2010 he was chairman of the Consortium of German Natural Science Research Collections (DNFS), in which the eleven largest natural history research museums in Germany have come together, and from September 2009 to the end of 2010 he was also the spokesman for the Humboldt Ring .

Since the beginning of 2008 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , from November 2008 to February 2013 he was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change . In 2010 he was elected Vice President of the German Museum Association, but resigned from the office when he left the Museum of Natural History . In 2012, Leinfelder was appointed to the Advisory Board for Nature Conservation and Land Care of the State of Berlin.

Since April 2012 he has been Professor of Paleontology and Geobiology at the Free University of Berlin . From 2012 to 2014 Carson was also affiliated professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Since 2013 he has also been a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy , which is to develop a proposal for the geological definition of the Anthropocene . From September 2012 to December 2018 he was Principal Investigator in the interdisciplinary base project The Anthropocene Kitchen. The laboratory for linking home and world at the Cluster of Excellence Image-Knowledge-Design under the leadership of the Humboldt University Berlin. From January 2012 to December 2014 he was a member of the management team for the Anthropocene Project at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. He also initiated and co- curated the large special exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene. Our responsibility for the future of the earth. which was on view at the Deutsches Museum in Munich until the end of September 2016 . From September 1, 2014 to September 15, 2016 he was also founding director of Futurium gGmbH (formerly House of the Future).

His research areas include the evolution and ecology of reefs (he was head of the DFG priority project Biogenic Sedimentation-Reef-Evolution ), sea level fluctuations in the history of the earth , the development of Mesozoic marginal basins, the genesis of microbial carbonate rocks, museology and new methods of knowledge transfer . His current research focus is interdisciplinary anthropocene research.

theses

In his blog Der Anthropocäniker , R. Leinfelder advocates the thesis that humans should move from the term “ environment ” to the term “ non-world ”, ie “... from the dualism of (good) nature versus (bad) humans (including their technology and culture ) get away and instead have to learn to understand people and their activities as part of nature ... ".

The term is now taken up, e.g. B. from the "Environmental Initiative" of the Technical University of Dresden .

Works

  • German creationism and its framework from the perspective of a paleontologist . In: Ulrich Kutschera (Ed.): Creationism in Germany. Facts and analysis . LIT, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9684-3 , p. 277 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ deutsches-museum.de: Welcome to the Anthropocene. Our responsibility for the future of the earth .
  2. ↑ hausderzukunft-deutschland.de: Haus der Zukunft gGmbH i. Size
  3. ↑ Press release on leaving the gGmbH
  4. ↑ November 21, 2011, scilogs.de: The Anthropocene - from the environment to the unworld
  5. ↑ From the Environment to the Unworld | TU environmental initiative. Retrieved on March 25, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Leinfelder, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist and geobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg