Gert Wörheide is a German
marine biologist
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who works mainly on marine invertebrates. He earned his doctorate in
geobiology
Geobiology is a field of scientific research that explores the interactions between the physical Earth and the biosphere. It is a relatively young field, and its borders are fluid. There is considerable overlap with the fields of ecology, evolutio ...
from
Georg-August-Universität, following this with a post-doctorate at
Queensland Museum
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(1998-2002),
where he worked with
John Hooper on sponges,
a collaboration which continues.
Following his postdoctorate in Queensland, Wörheide returned to Germany to become a junior professor in molecular geobiology at
Georg-August-Universität (2002-2008),
and in October 2008 was appointed Chair of Geobiology & Paleontology at
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
(University of Munich) (his current position),
where he continues to work on evolution and genomics, and all things pertaining to marine invertebrates. His most cited paper with 559 citations (at 2020-09-29) is "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough".
See also
Taxa named by Gert Wörheide
References
Living people
Australian marine biologists
German marine biologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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