Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut

Oliver Rauhut
Born
Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut

(1969-01-28) 28 January 1969 (age 56)
Aachen, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materFree University of Berlin; University of Bristol
Known forResearch on Dinosaur evolution; descriptions of new dinosaurs and Jurassic mammals
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology; Vertebrate paleontology
InstitutionsBayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut (born 28 January 1969[1]) is a German vertebrate paleontologist.

Biography

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Rauhut grew up in Aachen, Germany.[2] He completed a degree in Geology/Paleontology at the Free University of Berlin in 1995, earning a Diplom.[3] From 1996 to 1999, he conducted his Ph.D. research at the University of Bristol under David Unwin and was awarded his Ph.D. in May 2000. Since 2004, Rauhut has worked as a curator of lower vertebrates at the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie in Munich. Since 2007, he has also been a Privatdozent at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[3]

His research focuses on Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate fauna, especially dinosaur evolution. Rauhut has described, sometimes as a co-author, several dinosaurs including the theropods Aviatyrannis, Condorraptor, Sciurumimus, Wiehenvenator, Suchomimus, Xinjiangovenator and the sauropod Brachytrachelopan, as well as the early bird Alcmonavis. He also described Asfaltomylos, the first Jurassic mammal fossil found in South America.[4]

Rauhut is married and has two children.[3]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Profile at isni
  2. ^ Oliver Rauhut: Beine zu Flügeln - Ein Saurier geht in die Luft. On ARD-alpha, Campus TALKS.
  3. ^ a b c Lebenslauf Oliver Rauhut (Stand 2004) (PDF; 66 kB)
  4. ^ Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Helmut Tischlinger, Christian Foth (2019-05-14), "A non-archaeopterygid avialan theropod from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany", eLife, vol. 8, doi:10.7554/eLife.43789, PMC 6516837, PMID 31084702{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Dr. Oliver Rauhut - Albert Maucher-Preisträger 2004. On DFG.de. Accessed 10 March 2011.