Werner Piller

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Werner E. Piller (born May 27, 1951 in Vienna ) is an Austrian palaeontologist ( micropalaeontology ), stratigraph and professor at the University of Graz .

Life

Piller studied after graduating from high school in 1970 in Amstetten Geology and Paleontology at the University of Vienna , where he was an assistant at the Paleontological Institute. In 1975 he received his doctorate ( microfaces, lithostratigraphy and ecology in the banked Dachstein limestone on the northern edge of the Dead Mountains (S Grünau / Almtal, Upper Austria), with special attention to the foraminifera ). Before that he worked for an oil company, the city of Vienna (groundwater) and the Federal Geological Office. From 1975 he was a university assistant at the University of Vienna, where he was lecturer from 1979 and assistant professor from 1988. In 1994 he completed his habilitation ( The northern bay of Safaga (Red sea, Egypt): an actuopalaeontological approach ) at the University of Vienna. In 1997 he became a full professor for paleontology and historical geology at the University of Graz. Since 2004 he has headed the Institute for Earth Sciences there.

In 1991/91 he was on a Max Kade scholarship at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1997 he was a member of the governing body of the International Geological Congress in Vienna and in 1998 he chaired the Austrian Stratigraphy Commission. In 1999 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2000 President of the Austrian Paleontological Society. In 2002 he chaired the Austrian national committee for geology. He is a member of the Austrian committee for the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP).

His research focuses on the taxonomy and systematics of foraminifera and calcareous algae, including the use of molecular biological methods, reefs and shallow water carbonates (Triassic, Eocene, Miocene and recent formations), paleoecology (also through the study of recent biotopes such as the Red Sea or in the Gulf of Trieste), stratigraphy and Paleogeography (especially the Mediterranean area, the Indo-Pacific and the Paratethys in the Oligocene to Miocene).

In 2016 he received the Eduard Sueß Medal .

He has been married to Rosa Rödhamer since 1979.

Dedication names

A fossil representative of the Gaidropsaridae family from the Miocene Leithakalken from Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland was named Gaidropsarus pilleri in 2013 in honor of Piller .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. Carnevale & M. Harzhauser: Middle Miocene rockling (Teleostei, Gadidae) from the Paratethys (St. Margarethen in Burgenland, Austria). In: Bulletin of Geosciences , Volume 887, Number 14, 2013, pp. 609-620, ( digitized ).

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