Prof. Dr. Bettina Reichenbacher
PhD students
M. Sc. Felix Hofmayer (Geologische Bundesanstalt Wien)
Bachelor-Students (completed in 2023)
Lukas Wildgruber (SoSe 2023)
Projekt: Die Obere Meeresmolasse der Tongrube Mitterdorf: Paläo-Umwelt und Biostratigraphie
Haodong Chen (SoSe 2023)
Projekt: Die Obere Meeresmolasse der Tongrube Mitterdorf: Paläo-Umwelt und Geologie
Master-Students (current projects)
Pooria Mohammadzadeh Shaghooei (SoSe 2023)
Projekt: Biogeographic history and diversity of Iranocichla from southern Iran.
Completed thesis projects Bachelor Geowissenschaften and Master Geobiology and Palaeobiology in the last years
Elena Bauer (Master thesis 2022)
Phylogenetic placement of †Paralates chapelcorneri [Teleostei: Gobiodei] from the Upper Eocene using new morphological characters for the distinction of Odontobutidae and Rhyacichthyidae.
Moritz Dirnberger (Master thesis 2022)
Taxonomical revision and phylogenetic placement of a Lower Miocene goby from Western Turkey.
Leonard von Ehr (Bachelor thesis 2022)
Beschreibung und Interpretation der nahe verwandten Fischarten Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović, 1891) und Corcyrogobius lubbocki Miller, 1988.
Jana Schmid (Bachelor thesis 2022)
Anatomische Unterschiede zwischen Trichonotidae und Rhyacichthyidae
Kelly Zhan (Bachelor thesis 2022)
Beschreibung und Interpretation anatomischer Unterschiede zwischen den nahe verwandten Fischarten Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović, 1891) und Corcyrogobius pulcher Kovačić et al., 2020.
Riya Bidaye (Master thesis 2021)
Intraspecific variation in the killifish Aphaniops stoliczkanusDay, 1872 — implications for understanding diversification.
Published in:
Bidaye, R.G., Al-Jufaili, S. M., Charmpila, E. A., Jawad, L., Vukić, J., & Reichenbacher, B. (2022). Possible links between phenotypic variability, habitats and connectivity in the killifish Aphaniops stoliczkanus in Northeast Oman. Acta Zoologica (online first). Link to article (open access).
Andrea Herbert Mainero (Master thesis 2021)
Killifish palaeodiversity in a middle Miocene Lake in the Bugojno Basin, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Resulting publication from Andrea's Research Project:
Herbert Mainero, A., Al-Jufaili, S. M., Jawad, L., & Reichenbacher, B. (2022). Sex dimorphism and evidence of sexually selected traits: A case study on the killifish Aphaniops stoliczkanus (Day, 1872). Acta Zoologica (online first). Link to article (open access).
Beatriz Hadler Boggiani (Master thesis 2021)
New insights in the Neuhofen Formation based on micropaleontological data, C and O isotopes during the Burdigalian in the German Molasse Basin.
Rohit Soman (Master thesis 2020)
High resolution palaeoenvironmental analysis of the middle part of the Neuhofen Formation from the outcrop Mitterdorf in the SE German Molasse Basin.Juan David Juan David Andrade (Master thesis 2020)
High resolution palaeoenvironmental analysis reveals rapidly changing conditions in the Early Ottnangian (Middle Burdigalian, Early Miocene) of the Central Paratethys.
Resulting publication from the Master theses of Beatriz, Rohit and Juan David:
Hofmayer, F., Hadler Boggiani, B., Soman, R., Andrade, J. D., Ćorić, S., & Reichenbacher, B. (2023). An integrative palaeoenvironmental and chronostratigraphic study of the Lower Miocene in the North Alpine Foreland Basin – Are global climate signals detectable? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 627, 111719. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111719 Free access to article until Sept. 21, 2023
Eleni A. Charmpila (Master thesis 2019)
Recently diverged killifishes: A comparative study of Aphanius species from the Middle East. -
Published in:
Charmpila, E. A., Teimori, A., Freyhof, J., Weissenbacher, A. & Reichenbacher, B. (2020). New osteological and morphological data of four species of Aphaniops (Teleostei; Aphaniidae). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 36: 724–736. Link to article (open access).
Felix Hofmayer (Master thesis 2018)
Spatial reconstruction of the Burdigalian (early Miocene) depositional history in the eastern North Alpine Foreland Basin (lower Bavaria) - a revised Chronostratigraphy.
Published in:
Hofmayer, F., Kirscher, U., Sant, K., Krijgsman, W., Fritzer, T., Jung, D., Weissbrodt, V., Reichenbacher, B. (2019). Three-dimensional geological modeling supports a revised Burdigalian chronostratigraphy in the North Alpine Foreland Basin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 108: 2627–2651. Link to article.
Yong Peng (Master thesis 2018)
Taxonomic identification of new fossils of Cichlidae (Teleostei) from the Middle Miocene in Central Kenya.
Inda Brinkmann (Master thesis 2017)
Ostracod-based palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Miocene Upper Marine Molasse in the Central Paratethys. – A multi-proxy approach.
Published in:
Brinkmann, I., Pippèrr, M. & Reichenbacher, B. (2019). A new well-preserved ostracod fauna from the middle Burdigalian (lower Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Geobios, 56: 65–93. Link to article.
David Piatka (Master thesis 2017)
Regression of the Lower Marine Molasse: Global sea level fall or alpine tectonics?