Lecturers on 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP: Christian Klug

Today we can announce exciting news about our congress: the differents lecturers of the workshops are confirmed!. During next days, we will present every one of them.

Workshop "Life in Palaeozoic: an overview of land and sea ecosystems" lecturers.

Christian Klug (curator of the Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich, Switzerland) grew up in Southern Germany. Already at the age of 10, he became interested in nature, particularly botany and geology. Some years later, he began collecting Triassic fossils in the area around his hometown Schwabisch Hall (Germany). After school, he studied palaeontology in Tuebingen. Both his MSc- and his PhD-thesis focused on Devonian ammonoids based in materials from Morocco. After a scientific internship at the Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde in Stuttgart (Germany), he received a part time position as research associate at the Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich. Since 2014, he is now curator of the museum. In his research, he focuses on the palaeobiology of cephalopods and macroecological changes in the Palaeozoic.