Gerhard W. Weber, a.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
- Department of Anthropology
- University of Vienna
Gerhard W. Weber is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna.
Research: Current research activities
centre on the evolution, growth and development of humans, their
ancestors, and their closest relatives. Main
focus is the quantitative analysis and comparison of hominoid skulls
and teeth using geometric and biomechanical properties.
Within the Department he leads the work group "Virtual Anthropology" (multidisciplinary extension of anthropology into the digital world). In addiiton, he is head of the core facility "Vienna Micro-CT Lab" at Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna that runs one of the most advanced micro-CT devices in Middle Europe which can handle objects up to the size of skulls and penetrate dense objects such as fossils. Gerhard Weber is also chairman of the "EVAN-Society" which is the successor of the EU project "EVAN" (EU MRTN-CT-2005-019564 € 3.3 Mio). The society further develops a software to perform shape and form anaylsis without programming knowledge and maintains a 3D-archive. He is also chief editor of the “ digital@rchive of Fossil Hominoids” (Int.Reg.No. VLB 5162563)
5 important recent publication
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Weber GW, and Bookstein FL. 2011. Virtual Anthropology - A Guide to a New Interdisciplinary Field. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-211-48647-4. |
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Weber GW, Bookstein FL, and Strait DS. 2011. Virtual
anthropology meets biomechanics. J Biomech 44:1429-1432. |
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Benazzi S, Douka K, Fornai C, Bauer CC, Kullmer O, Svoboda J, Pap
I, Mallegni F, Bayle P, Coquerelle M, Condemi S, Ronchitelli A, Harvati
K, Weber GW. 2011. Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe
and implications for Neanderthal behaviour. Nature 479:525-528. |
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Gunz P, Bookstein FL, Mitteroecker P, Stadlmayr A, Seidler H, and
Weber GW. 2009. Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided
population structure and a complex out-of-Africa scenario. PNAS
106(15):6094-6098. |
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Strait DS, Weber GW, Neubauer S, Chalk J, Richmond BG, Lucas
PW, Spencer MA, Schrein C, Dechow PC, Ross CF and others. 2009. The
feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Australopithecus africanus.
PNAS 106(7):2124-2129. |
Teaching:
Lecture "Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into
digital 3D-methods" (2 ECTS)
Lab "Virtual Anthropology - 3D Applications and Software" (2
ECTS)
Lecture & Lab "Applied Statistics for Anthropologists" (9
ECTS)
Seminar "Hominid Evolution" (2 ECTS)
Lab "Micro-CT and the handling of volume data" (2 ECTS)
Current positions
| 2010-present |
Head of the Core Facility "Vienna Micro-CT
Lab" at Faculty of Life Sciences, Univ. Vienna. |
| 2009-present | Team leader of the Emerging Field "Virtual Anthropology" at Univ. Vienna. |
| 2008-present | Deputy Head of the Department of Anthropology, Univ. Vienna. |
Education and Professional Career
| 2001-present | Leader of the workgroup “Virtual Anthropology” |
| 2001-present | Associated Professor, Department of Anthropology, Univ. Vienna |
| 2001 |
Venia docendi (“Habilitation”) for Anthropology |
| 1994-2001 | Assistant Professor, Institute of Human Biology, Univ. Vienna |
| 1995 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Prof.
James F. Toole, Neurology) & Wake Forest University (Prof. David Weaver, Anthropology), North Carolina, USA |
| 1992-1999 | Member of the Tyrolean Iceman Research Consortium |
| 1982-1991 | Ph. D. (Dr. phil.) degree at Univ. Vienna, Supervisor: Prof. Horst Seidler |
| 1981 | Austrian Army Service, Tank Battalion |
| 1980 | Vienna Business School for Economics, general qualification for university entrance |
Other Functions and Editorship
| 2011-present | Head of the international workgroup "3D Craniometry for
Dentistry" (members from Austria, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain) |
| 2006-2009 | Initiator and Coordinator of the “European Virtual
Anthropology Network – EVAN” EU FP6 Marie Curie Actions MRTN-CT-2005-019564 |
| 2005-2006 |
Deputy Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna |
| 2002-present | Chief editor of the “digital@rchive of Fossil Hominoids” (Int.Reg.No. VLB 5162563) |
Prizes/Awards/Academy memberships
| 2011 | Founding member of the new European Society for Studying Human Evolution ESHE |
| 2010-present | Board member of the "NESPOS Society" (www.nespos.org) |
| 2009-present |
Chairman of the "EVAN-Society" (www.evan-society.org) |
| 2009 | Award for my workgroup Virtual Anthropology by the Faculty of Life Science, UNIVIE |
| 1999 |
Science Award by the government of Lower Austria |