Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Meister
Professur für Sedimentologie an der Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Geographie und Astronomie
Curriculum Vitae:
1999 Diploma in Geology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
2005 PhD in Earth Sciences at the ETH Zürich
2005-2007 Swiss National Fund and Agouron Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2007-2014 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
2014-2016 Marie-Curie IEF Fellow at the University of Vienna, Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology
since March 2016 Professor of Sedimentology, Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna
Research Areas:
* Biogenic and chemical sediments
* Carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis
* Microbial and abiotic formation of dolomite
* Geobiology: the deep biosphere
* Early co-evolution of Earth and life