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Mr Silviu Martha

Postdoctoral Researcher, Leverhulme

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Invertebrates Division

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • MSc, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
  • BSc, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main

Employment history

    Academic

  • Research assistant, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2013 - 2016

Committees

Member, International Bryozoology Association, 2016 - on going.

Memberships

.

Reviewer / referee

Publications

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Publications

Fedorov PV, Koromyslova AV, Martha SO (2017) The oldest bryozoans of Baltoscandia from the lowermost Floian (Ordovician) of north-western Russia: two new rare, small and simple species of Revalotrypidae. PalZ, 91 (3) : 353 - 373. doi: 10.1007/s12542-017-0351-y

Martha SO, Dörr W, Gerdes A, Krahl J, Linckens J, Zulauf G (2017) The tectonometamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Uppermost Unit in central Crete (Melambes area): constraints on a Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in the Internal Hellenides (Greece). Gondwana Research, 48 : 50 - 71. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.004

Martha SO, Niebuhr B, Scholz J (2017) Cheilostome Bryozoen. Geologica Saxonica, 62 : 11 - 52.

Taylor PD, Martha SO (2017) Cenomanian cheilostome bryozoans from Devon, England. Annales de Paléontologie, 103 (1) : 19 - 31. doi: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.11.002

Martha SO, Dörr W, Gerdes A, Petschick R, Schastok J, Xypolias P, Zulauf G (2016) New structural and U–Pb zircon data from Anafi crystalline basement (Cyclades, Greece): constraints on the evolution of a Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in the Internal Hellenides. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105 (7) : 2031 - 2060. doi: 10.1007/s00531-016-1346-8

Martha SO, Taylor PD (2016) A new western European Cretaceous bryozoan genus from the early Cenomanian radiation of neocheilostomes. Papers in Palaeontology, 2 (2) : 311 - 321. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1042

Benedix G, Jacob DE, Lotz BH, Martha SO, Matsuyama K, Morales LFG, Neu C, Scholz J (2016) Bryozoen als Architekten. Wissenschaftler entschlüsseln die Choreografie aufeinanderfolgender Generationen mit moderner Technik. Senckenberg – Natur, Forschung, Museum, 146 (1–2) : 14 - 19.

Martha SO, Matsuyama K, Taylor PD, Scholz J (2015) On rediscovered types of Santonian cheilostome bryozoans described by Ehrhard Voigt (1924, 1930) from the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin and its surroundings. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89 (4) : 689 - 706. doi: 10.1007/s12542-014-0252-2

Martha SO, Zulauf G, Dörr W, Nesbor H-D, Petschick R, Prinz-Grimm P, Gerdes A (2014) The Saxothuringian-Rhenohercynian boundary underneath the Vogelsberg volcanic field: evidence from basement xenoliths and U-Pb zircon data of trachyte. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 165 (3) : 373 - 394. doi: 10.1127/1860-1804/2014/0079

Matsuyama K, Janssen A, Arbizu PM, Martha SO, Freiwald A (2014) Bryozoans from RV Sonne deep-sea cruises SO 167 ‘Louisville’ and SO 205 ‘Mangan’. Zootaxa, 3856 (1) : 100 - 116. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.1.4

Martha SO, Taylor PD, Matsuyama K, Scholz J (2014) A brief history of misidentification and missing links: the Jurassic cyclostome Kololophos Gregory, 1896 and a new genus from the Cretaceous. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94 : 169 - 179.

Martha SO (2014) Things we lost in the fire: the rediscovery of type material from Ehrhard Voigt's early publications (1923–1942) and the bryozoan collection of Hermann Brandes. Annals of Bryozoology 4: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans, 107 - 127.

Matsuyama K, Martha SO, Scholz J, Hillmer G (2018) Ristedtia vestiflua n. gen. et sp., a new bryozoan genus and species (Gymnolaemata: Cheilostomata) from an Arctic seamount in the central Greenland Sea. Marine Biodiversity, 48 (2) : 1247 - 1253. doi: 10.1007/s12526-017-0645-z

Courses taught

Third year: Vulkankompomplex Vogelsberg
10/2015 - 2/2016.

Third year: Kartenkunde II
4/2015 - 7/2015.

Third year: Kartenkunde II
4/2014 - 7/2014.

Invited and keynote speaker

Cheilostome bryozoan evolution through time - insights from a time-calibrated family-level phylogeny., 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Technicka Univerzita v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic, 21/6/2019.

Introduction

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • MSc, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
  • BSc, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main

Employment history

    Academic

  • Research assistant, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2013 - 2016
Professional activities

Committees

Member, International Bryozoology Association, 2016 - on going.

Memberships

.

Reviewer / referee

Publications

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Publications

Publications

Fedorov PV, Koromyslova AV, Martha SO (2017) The oldest bryozoans of Baltoscandia from the lowermost Floian (Ordovician) of north-western Russia: two new rare, small and simple species of Revalotrypidae. PalZ, 91 (3) : 353 - 373. doi: 10.1007/s12542-017-0351-y

Martha SO, Dörr W, Gerdes A, Krahl J, Linckens J, Zulauf G (2017) The tectonometamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Uppermost Unit in central Crete (Melambes area): constraints on a Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in the Internal Hellenides (Greece). Gondwana Research, 48 : 50 - 71. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.004

Martha SO, Niebuhr B, Scholz J (2017) Cheilostome Bryozoen. Geologica Saxonica, 62 : 11 - 52.

Taylor PD, Martha SO (2017) Cenomanian cheilostome bryozoans from Devon, England. Annales de Paléontologie, 103 (1) : 19 - 31. doi: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.11.002

Martha SO, Dörr W, Gerdes A, Petschick R, Schastok J, Xypolias P, Zulauf G (2016) New structural and U–Pb zircon data from Anafi crystalline basement (Cyclades, Greece): constraints on the evolution of a Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in the Internal Hellenides. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105 (7) : 2031 - 2060. doi: 10.1007/s00531-016-1346-8

Martha SO, Taylor PD (2016) A new western European Cretaceous bryozoan genus from the early Cenomanian radiation of neocheilostomes. Papers in Palaeontology, 2 (2) : 311 - 321. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1042

Benedix G, Jacob DE, Lotz BH, Martha SO, Matsuyama K, Morales LFG, Neu C, Scholz J (2016) Bryozoen als Architekten. Wissenschaftler entschlüsseln die Choreografie aufeinanderfolgender Generationen mit moderner Technik. Senckenberg – Natur, Forschung, Museum, 146 (1–2) : 14 - 19.

Martha SO, Matsuyama K, Taylor PD, Scholz J (2015) On rediscovered types of Santonian cheilostome bryozoans described by Ehrhard Voigt (1924, 1930) from the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin and its surroundings. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89 (4) : 689 - 706. doi: 10.1007/s12542-014-0252-2

Martha SO, Zulauf G, Dörr W, Nesbor H-D, Petschick R, Prinz-Grimm P, Gerdes A (2014) The Saxothuringian-Rhenohercynian boundary underneath the Vogelsberg volcanic field: evidence from basement xenoliths and U-Pb zircon data of trachyte. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 165 (3) : 373 - 394. doi: 10.1127/1860-1804/2014/0079

Matsuyama K, Janssen A, Arbizu PM, Martha SO, Freiwald A (2014) Bryozoans from RV Sonne deep-sea cruises SO 167 ‘Louisville’ and SO 205 ‘Mangan’. Zootaxa, 3856 (1) : 100 - 116. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.1.4

Martha SO, Taylor PD, Matsuyama K, Scholz J (2014) A brief history of misidentification and missing links: the Jurassic cyclostome Kololophos Gregory, 1896 and a new genus from the Cretaceous. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94 : 169 - 179.

Martha SO (2014) Things we lost in the fire: the rediscovery of type material from Ehrhard Voigt's early publications (1923–1942) and the bryozoan collection of Hermann Brandes. Annals of Bryozoology 4: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans, 107 - 127.

Matsuyama K, Martha SO, Scholz J, Hillmer G (2018) Ristedtia vestiflua n. gen. et sp., a new bryozoan genus and species (Gymnolaemata: Cheilostomata) from an Arctic seamount in the central Greenland Sea. Marine Biodiversity, 48 (2) : 1247 - 1253. doi: 10.1007/s12526-017-0645-z

Teaching and students

Courses taught

Third year: Vulkankompomplex Vogelsberg
10/2015 - 2/2016.

Third year: Kartenkunde II
4/2015 - 7/2015.

Third year: Kartenkunde II
4/2014 - 7/2014.

Impact and outreach

Invited and keynote speaker

Cheilostome bryozoan evolution through time - insights from a time-calibrated family-level phylogeny., 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Technicka Univerzita v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic, 21/6/2019.