Dipl.-Geol. Niko Hoffmann



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Curriculum vitae

Education

Since 10.2007 PhD student at Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thesis: Adaptive traits in Cenozoic freshwater batoids (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) - A multi-disciplinary approach
07.2007 MSc/Diploma in Geology at the Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Germany
Thesis: Knorpel- und Knochenfische aus dem Oberjura von Nordwestpolen [Cartilaginous and bony fishes from the Upper Jurassic of Northwest Poland]
Geological Map: Kartierung der oberflächennahen quartären Schichtenfolge südlich von Golczewo sowie des Oberjura-Vorkommens von Kleby (NW-Polen) [Field mapping of the near-surface quaternary strata series south of Golczewo and the Upper Jurassic deposit of Kleby (NW-Poland)]
10.2002-07.2007 MSc student at the Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Germany
BSc/Vordiploma at the Institute of Geography and Geology, Universtiy of Greifswald
10.2000-09.2002 BSc student at the Institute of Geography and Geology, Universtiy of Greifswald
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Professional Background

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Membership in professional organizations
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Research Statement

The main topic of my researches are currently adaptive traits in freshwater rays and skates. They include the potamotrygonids in South America and several species in the family Dasyatidae from Western Africa and Southeast Asia. The aim of this research is to analyse new fossil material and their fossil record with modern methods and to establish phylogenetic frameworks using molecular marker sequences and morphological traits to infer cladogenetic events by employing molecular clock methods, which are calibrated with fossil occurences. This gives the ability to reconstruct evolutionary pathway of this freshwater neoselachians and to identify reasons for freshwater adaptions.

Other topics of my researches are Late Jurassic fish and marine reptile faunas from Northwestern Poland as well as Middle Jurassic sharks and bony fishes from Kyrgyzstan.

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Academic Grants and Awards

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Conferences and Symposia

  • Chondrichthyan Meeting I - Evolution and Diversity of Chondrichthyans, Warsaw, Poland (2008)
    • Poster Elasmobranch remains from the Late Jurassic of NW Poland. (Co-authored by J. Kriwet)
  • Palherp 2008 - Annual Meeting of German Palaeoherpetologists, Berlin, Germany (2008)
    • Poster Upper Jurassic marine reptiles from Northwest Poland
  • "GeoPomerania 2007 - Geology cross-bordering the Western and Eastern European Platform", Joint Meeting PTG-DGG, Szczecin, Poland (2007)
    • Poster The Upper Jurassic shallow marine deposits in Western Pomerania (Zachodniopomorskie) and their geotouristic potential (Co-authored by G. Hoffmann, M. Meschede & J. Koppka)
  • 76th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Kiel, Germany (2006)
    • Poster Knorpel- und Knochenfische aus dem Oberjura von NW-Polen (Co-authored by I. Hinz-Schallreuter)
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    Publications

    Peer-reviewed papers
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    Non peer-reviewed papers
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    Published conference presentations
    • Hoffmann, N. & Kriwet, J. 2008. Elasmobranch remains from the Late Jurassic of NW Poland. Ichthyolith Issues, Special Publication 11: 9-10.
    • Hoffmann, N., Hoffmann, G., Meschede, M. & Koppka, J. 2007. The Upper Jurassic shallow marine deposits of Western Pomerania (Zachodniopomorskie) and their geotouristic potential. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 2007(53): 120.
    • Hoffmann, N. & Hinz-Schallreuter, I. 2006. Knorpel- und Knochenfische aus dem Oberjura von NW-Polen. Berichte-Reports, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Kiel 22: 38.
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    Unpublished conference presentations
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    Miscellaneous
    • Obst, K., Geissler, M., Franz, M., Ansorge, J. Granitzki, K. & Hoffmann, N. 2007. The Central European Basin System - from the bottom to the top. In Niedermeyer, R.-O., Dobracki, R. & Sschütze, K. (eds). Geo-Pomerania Szczecin 2007 - Geology cross-bordering the Western and Eastern European Platform, Excursion Guide. Biuletyn Panstwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 424: 19-52.
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    Contact
    Humboldt-University of Berlin
    Museum für Naturkunde
    Department of Research
    Invalidenstr. 43
    D-10115 Berlin
    Germany    		 phone: +49 (0)30 2093 7410
    fax: +49 (0)30 2093 8565

    mail: niko.hoffmann@museum.hu-berlin.de

    web: www.museum.hu-berlin.de/Niko.Hoffmann