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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Palaeontology,Systematics and Morphology (Zoology) |
| Keywords | Mammals, Mesozoic, Evolutionary Morphology, Phylogenetics, Paleoecology |
| Honours and awards | 2016: Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Sciences 2007: Humboldt Award for Senior Scientists 1996: CAREER Award, National Science Foundation USA |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Chicago |
| Institution | University of Chicago |
| Institute | Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Thomas Martin | Forschungsbereich Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2008 |
Programme(s)
| 2007 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Luo is the internationally leading expert on evolutionary morphology of the earliest mammals. He has revolutionized the picture of early mammalian evolution with the discovery of extremely well preserved new Mesozoic mammals exhibiting a completely unexpected degree of ecomorphological diversity. In Germany, he will focus his research on the evolution of Jurassic mammals in order to gain fundamental new insights into the macroevolutionary pattern of basal mammals within a highly resolved phylogeny. |