Team leader

Emma Dunne (Akademische Rätin, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg)

Masters students

Meghan Gallaspy (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2025) - Cetacean latitudinal diversity

Victoria Thiel (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2025) - Structure of the bird fossil record

Jordan Rodgers (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2025) - Ecomorphology of Paratypothorax (co-supervised by Stephan Spiekman, SNMS, Stuttgart)

Max Stammberger (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2025) - Tetanuran dinosaur ecospace occupancy

Matias Zenklussen (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2025) - Morphological disparity in European cave bears

Undergraduate students

Sebastian Nöth (BSc thesis project, FAU, 2025) - Penguin fossil record completeness

Group alumni

Carolin Grether (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2024-2025) - Pterosaur evolution and climate

Janelle Jalwar (MSc thesis project, FAU, 2024) - Mosasaur palaeopathology

Maibritt Härpfer (BSc thesis project, FAU, 2024) - Squamate diversity across the PETM

Eren Tasimov (BSc thesis project, FAU, 2024) - Evolution of herbivory in theropod dinosaurs

Katrin Eckhert (BSc thesis project, FAU, 2024) - Size biases among vertebrates of the Jehol Biota

Lisa Schnetz (Postdoctoral scholar, FAU, 2023) - Chondrichthyan macroevolution

Eren Tasimov (PalAss Undergraduate Bursary project, FAU, 2023) - Early Cretaceous herbivorous theropod diversity

Max Stammberger (BSc thesis project, FAU, 2023) - Late Triassic the synapsid fossil record

Marius Müller (BSc thesis project, FAU, 2023) - Mesozoic belemnoid diversity