Dr. Nadia Belinda Fröbisch

Nominated by

• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• AcademiaNet member since 02.10.2013
• AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria

Employed by

• Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin

Academic Discipline/Fields

• Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

Field

Biological and related sciences, Environment

Area of specialisation

Vertebrate Paleontology, Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Research interests

• I am interested in the evolution and development of vertebrate body plans and the relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny throughout the evolutionary history of tetrapods (animals with four extremities). Specifically, my main research focus is on the evolutionary and developmental biology of amphibians combining data from the fossil record and extant taxa to gain a broad perspective for the evolutionary history of amphibians through deep time. Thereby I seek to understand the evolution of developmental pathways and the acquisition of the derived morphologies seen in the modern taxa, which will ultimately help to elucidate the controversial origins of the three modern amphibian groups.

Distinctions and Awards

• Emmy Noether Junior Research Group of the German Research Foundation (DFG)12/2012

• Co-PI, Research and Exploration Grant of the National Geographic Society (19.445 $US): "The enigmatic Omphalosaurus and the diversification of marine reptiles." 09/2010

• Research Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [Postdoctoral funding]03/2009 – 04/2011

• Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (not accepted)03/2009 -04/2011

• Nomination by the Department of Biology, McGill University for the Prix d'excellence de l'Association des doyens des études supérieures au Québec 02/2009

• Nomination by the Department of Biology, McGill University for the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award 02/2009

• Principal investigator & main organizer, Research and Exploration Grant of the National Geographic Society: "The marine vertebrate fauna of the Middle Triassic of Nevada." 01/2008

• Student travel award of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for participation a the 67th Annual meeting in Austin, Texas 07/2007

• Delise Allison Graduate Student Development Award to attend the 8th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Paris July 2007

• Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 21/10/2006

• T.E. Bolton Award for best student presentation at the 16th Canadian Paleontology Conference 10/16/2006

• GTC Travel Award, Department of Biology, McGill University 10/2005

• Samuel P. and Doris Welles Research Fund of the Paleontological Museum, University of California, Berkeley 05/2005

• Research grant of the ?Frauenförderung?, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn for research visits at the collections of the Paleontological Museum, University of California, Berkeley and the Field Museum, Chicago 10/2002

• Student bursary of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada 08/2002

• Full scholarship of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for two semesters as a visiting student at the University of Calgary, Canada 09/1999-04/2000

Interested in

• Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing

Languages

English, German

Doctorate

• 2008: Ontogeny and phylogeny of small dissorophoid amphibians

PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

• 2013: Amphibian origin(s) and evolution through deep time: integrating the fossil record, morphology, and development