Prof. Dr. Robert Reisz

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPalaeontology,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
KeywordsEvolution, Growth and Development, Vertebrate Paleontology

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityMississauga
InstitutionUniversity of Toronto
InstituteDepartment of Biology
Homepagewww.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3reisz

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Rainer SchochAbteilung Paläontologie, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart - Zentrum für Biodiversitätsforschung, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Jörg FröbischAbteilung Forschung, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung (MfN), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2007

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Reisz is an internationally recognized leader in the study of the morphology, paleobiology, and interrelationships of late Paleozoic amphibians, reptiles, and non-mammalian synapsids from Europe, North America, and South Africa. He has also published important work on a diversity of other fossil vertebrates, ranging form Devonian lungfishes to Jurassic dinosaurs. His current research on dinosaur embryology and turtle origins forms the focus of his promising research and collaboration in Germany.