Biography: PD Dr. Thomas A. Neubauer

  • Since 2024: Privatdozent (PD) at Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Since 2022: Curator of fossil invertebrates at Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology, Munich
  • Since 2017: Associate researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 2019–2022: Research scientist with the DFG project “European freshwater gastropod biodiversity over the past 200 million years – drivers of diversification across time and space” at the Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 2017–2019: Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 2016–2017: Just’us Fellow at the Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 2013–2016: Postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum Vienna with the FWF project P25365-B25 “Freshwater systems in the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: Gastropod biodiversity, provinciality, and faunal gradients”
  • 10/2013: Ph.D. with the thesis “Development of the Miocene Freshwater Gastropod Fauna of Middle and Southeastern Europe”
  • 2011–2013: Ph.D. study of Paleobiology at the University of Vienna
  • 2010: Graduation with the thesis “Quantifying evolution – paleolake mollusks from the Dinaride Lake System (Middle Miocene, Sinj Basin, SE Croatia)”
  • 2006–2010: Study of Paleobiology at the University of Vienna

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