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On Saturday November 15, 2025 we will open the call to submit proposals for the Analytical Paleobiology School 2026 for grad students in Erlangen for a training in analytical methods. Do you want to join or send someone? More info and details

We warmly congratulate Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. According to the latest edition, a total of 236 researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are among the world’s top two percent of most-cited sc...

On October 29, 2025, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling gave a lecture at the Nuremberg Planetarium titled “Between Heat and Hope: Species conservation in the Age of Climate Change.” The event is part of the lecture series “Artenschutz im Anthropozän: Strategien für eine lebenswerte Zukunft” (Species cons...

Hello out there! A little reminder about our workshop call… No ideas of your own? Maybe you know a colleague you'd like to throw into the ring. So feel free to spread the word and the link!

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project" is published in Paleobiology. "Paleontology provides insights into the history of the planet, from the origins of life ...

We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! The deadline is December 15, 2025. Please visit the website with the necessary information before you start to prepare a proposal. For questions you may contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics)

After a short break following the summer school, the program continues. Next week, the DeepIL workshop will take place at the PaleoSynthesis Center. Participants will mainly be scientists based in Germany. However, DeepIL also receives support from external research institutions. The workshop is le...

Group photo of this years Summer School students and some of the lecturers. All look still pretty fresh and motivated. It's halftime, lets see how it goes next!

As for all the previous workshops we had an icon designed. DeepIL will be the upcoming workshop in fall and the topic is "Deep-Time Impacts of Life on the Earth System". And today we are happy to present the latest icon representing this workshop.

Today is the kick-off of our summer school 2025. 12 smart and motivated students from all over the globe attend the course and hopefully take back home lots of knowledge and skills.