apl Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel

Research focus

  • Palaeoenvironmental analysis, palaeoclimatology and environmental research on sediments from marginal marine and continental waters (mainly Quaternary)
  • Brackish water ecology
  • (Palaeo)ecology, stratigraphy, taphonomy and taxonomy of ostracods and benthic foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous to recent times
  • Palaeoecology of Permian continental ecosystems
  • Geoarchaeology

Institute of Geosciences of the University of Jena, General and Historical Geology, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Tel. 03641/948619

Email: peter.frenzel@uni-jena.de

CV

1986 to 1991 Studied Geology and Palaeontology in Greifswald

1991 to 1998 Research studies and subsequent doctorate in palaeontology and geology at the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Greifswald under Ekkehard Herrig

1998 to 2005 Postdoc at the research laboratory for marine bioindicators on the Ile d'Yeu (University of Angers (France) with Jean-Pierre Debenay, at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Paris with Marie-Therese Venec-Peyré, at the Geographical Institute of the University of Newcastle (UK) with Ian Boomer and in the Department of Marine Biology at the University of Rostock with Günter Arlt (habilitation fellowship from the DBU)

2005 to 2007 parental leave

2005 to 2014 Person with a teaching contract for Palaeontology and Geology at the University of Jena

2007 to 2010 Research assistant at the Institute of Environmental Geology at TU Braunschweig with Antje Schwalb

2009 Postdoctoral lecturing qualification and venia legendi for Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Jena

2010 to 2014 Research assistant at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Jena

Head of the Palaeontology working group at the Institute of Geosciences in Jena since 2014

Since 2019 Associate Professor of Palaeontology and Geology at the University of Jena

Involvement in societies and journals

Section editor for micropalaeontology of the Paläontologische Zeitschrift and Zitteliana, deputy head of the AK Mikropaläontologie of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, juror of Jugend forscht Thüringen

Member of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, The Micropalaeontological Society, the Environmental Network of Scholarship Holders of the German Federal Environmental Foundation, the International Research Group on Ostracoda and the Association of Friends and Sponsors of IRGO

My external research profiles