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Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder

Geologische Wissenschaften

Fachrichtung Paläontologie

Malteserstrasse 74-100 - Haus C — Raum C.116
D-12249 Berlin

Tel.: +49(0)30 838 70285
Fax: +49(0)30 838 70745

E-Mail: reinhold.leinfelder@fu-berlin.de

Homepage: Reinhold Leinfelder´s Hompage

aktuelle Vorlesungen

Vorlesungsverzeichnis Paläontologie >>

Curriculum vitae

• Year and Place of Birth: 1957 in Augsburg (Bavaria, Germany)
• Nationality: German
• High-School Graduation: Abitur, St. Anna Gymnasium, Augsburg, Fall 1975
• Diploma-Degree: Dec. 1980: course Geology and Paleontology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (academic teachers: Profs. Herm, Hagn, Schmidt-Kittler, Fürsich, Fahlbusch, Klaus Schmidt, Huckenholz, Jagodzinski, Autrum, Bechstädt, E. Flügel and others).
  
  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),
  - Director of Bavarian State Collections of Paleontology and Geology; Director of Paleontological Museum Munich, Director of Geological Museum Munich
  - Dean of Study Affairs of Geoscience Faculty at LMU (1999-2003)
• Since 1999: Curatory member of the Werner-and-Inge-Grüter Foundation, since 2009 Vice-Chair.
• August 2002 - December 2005: Founding member and Speaker of GeoBio-Center at LMU, Munich. (www.geobio-center.lmu.de)
• August 2003 - December 2005: General Director of the Bavarian Natural History Collections (www.snsb.de)
• September 2004 - December 2005: member of managing board of GeoZentrum LMU/TUM
• Since 2006: Curatory member of Deutsches Museum, Munich
• Since Jan. 2008: Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Science (see here or here)
• Since June 2011: Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the LMU
  
  BERLIN
• January 2006 - Dec. 2010: Director General and Professor, Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History), Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University, Berlin (http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de)
• January 2006 - March 2011: Full Professor, chair of Invertebrate Palaeontology and Geobiology at the Humboldt-University (on leave for museum position from Jan 2006-Dec 2010).
• Since July 2006: member of managing board of the newly founded "Interdisciplinary Centre for Genetic Variability and Adaptation" ("Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Genetische Variabilität und Anpassungsfähigkeit") at the Humboldt-University Berlin.
• January 2007 - Spring 2011: Member of the Board of Landesmuseumsverband Berlin
• Since Aug 2010: Member of the Advisory Board of the Junior Zoo-University Berlin.
• Since Feb 2011: Visiting Professor at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
• Since April 2012: Full Professor, chair of Invertebrate Palaeontology and Geobiology, Working Group Geobiology and Anthropocene Research, Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University, Berlin.

Teaching

Indoor University courses during my Mainz (1981-1989) Period (examples)

• Participation in invertebrate palaeontology courses
• Microfacies course
• lecture on the Jurassic System

Indoor University courses during my Stuttgart (1981-1989) Period (examples)

• Invertebrate palaeontology lectures and courses
• Historical Geology lecture
• Reefs and Carbonate Platforms
• Palaeoecology, Basin Analysis and Petroleum exploration
• The geology of the Iberian Peninsula
• Microfacies course
• Seminars on topics in Geology and Palaeontology
• Parts of General Geology lectures

Indoor University courses at the University of Munich (Oct. 1989 - Dec. 2005)

• Invertebrate palaeontology courses (several courses)
• Historical Geology for Beginners and Advanced (several courses)
• Reefs and Carbonate Platforms (incl. Basin Analysis and Petroleum Exploraration Chapter)
• Seminars on current research topics in Palaeontology, Geobiology and Historical Geology
• Multimedia-course with geoscience examples (see here)

Course material in part available online at www.palaeo.de/edu

2006-2010: Owing to time constraints related to the new responsabilities at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, I was not regularly involved in teaching during this period. Teaching was maintained during internet contributions, public talks , discussion rounds, contributions to "children universities", workshops, professional seminars and occasional participation in academic teaching.

2011:

Ludwig-Maximilians-University and Rachel Carson Center, Munich: Global Environments Summer Academy 2011: Socio-Ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World. (Course Module: Towards a New Social Contract for Sustainability in the Anthropocene). Munich inInternational Summer University Course.

Humboldt-University, Berlin

• Participation in Geography Colloquium Lecures
• Module: Development and Evaluation of School Education in Biology, Scientific Consolidation: Framework Theme: Humanity and Evolution

Free University, Berlin

• Participation in Geosciences Colloqium Lectures 

Scientific Scope

Research projects

Selected Publications

• Leinfelder, R.R. (2009): Keynote: Charles Darwin heute: verbannt, missbraucht, halbiert, vergöttert –  Relevanz, Akzeptanz und Vermittlung der Evolutionswissenschaften in Schule und Gesellschaft.-  7. Berlin-Brandenburger MNU-Kongress, 0. und 11. September 2009,  Freie Universität Berlin, Programmheft, S. 5, Berlin-Brandenburger Landesverein  des Deutschen Vereins zur Förderung des mathematischen  und natur wissenschaftlichen Unterrichts e.V.
  
  
• Leinfelder, R.R. (2009): Von der Evolutions- zur Biodiversitätsforschung.- „Nach Darwin – Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung heute“, Geisteswissenschaften im Dialog, Berlin-Brandenburgische-Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leibniz-Saal, 2.10.2009, Berlin.
  
  
• Leinfelder, R.R. (2010): Deutsches Kulturerbe auf dem Weg in die Europeana.- Konferenz am 4. und 5.10.2010 in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin., Programmheft, S. 3.
  
  
• Leinfelder, R.R. (2010): Nationale und internationale Objekt- und Datennetzwerke als gemeinsame Forschungsinfrastruktur naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen. Tagung Wissensarchive, organisiert Stiftung Preuss. Kulturbesitz. 9.12.2010, Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Otto Braun Saal).
  
  
• Leinfelder, R.R. (2011): Das „Anthropozän“ – ein neues Forschungsfeld für Stratigraphie, Paläontologie und Geobiologie? – 82. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft - Abstract Volume.- Beitr. Paläont., 32, S. 22, Wien.
  
  
• Leinfelder, R.R. (2011): Towards a responsible Anthropocene society: Using citizen science and other forms of participation for biodiversity conservation and use”.- Limits to the Anthropocene. What are the boundaries of human intervention into nature? Int. Symp. Sept 22-24, 2011, KlimaCampus, Hamburg, Abstracts, p. 13, Univ. Hamburg.
  
  
• Leinfelder, R.R. (2011): Darwin - (R)evolutionär unseres Weltbildes . Warum die Evolutionstheorie wichtiger denn je ist und warum dies manche nicht wahrhaben wollen.- Forum Kirche und Gesellschaft in Kiel. Programm für 2011.