Reinhold Leinfelder

Biography

Academic Career and Affiliations MAINZ Spring 1981 - Autumn 1989: research fellow, post-doc, scientific assistant (~equiv. Assistant Professor) at the Institut für Geowissenschaften (Paläontologie) at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz; - May 1985: doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) (with "scl") at the University of Mainz - May 1989: Habilitation degree and venia legendi for subjects Geology and Paleontology at the University of Mainz STUTTGART October 1989 -September 1998 University Professor (~equiv. Associate Professor) of Geology and Paleontology at the Institute of Geology und Paleontology at the University of Stuttgart (successor of Prof. Dr. Otto Geyer) - Chair of Examinations Board - Dean of Study Affairs MUNICH October 1998 - December 2005: - Full Professor, Chair of Paleontology and Historical Geology (successor of Prof. Dr. Dietrich Herm) - Director of Institute of Paleontology and Historical Geology (since April 2002 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology)of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University München),

Research Interest

Reef Evolution through Time   Local, Regional and Global Control of Jurassic Reef and Carbonate Platform Growth   Growth of Modern Reefs in "stressed" settings   Comparison of Mid-Palaeozoic and Jurassic Reefal and nonreefal benthic communities   Constructional morphology and taxonomy of invertebrates (corals, echinoids, bivalves etc.)   Marine and Terrestrial Microbial Systems, Calcareous Algae, enigmatic microorganisms and non-reefal biosedimentology   Basin analysis of the Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin, west-central Portugal   Quantitative Basin Modelling: Factors controlling carbonate ramps and platforms in differing plate tectonic settings   Progress in Methodologies