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

	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.
	Weber GW, Bookstein FL, and Strait DS. 2011. Virtual anthropology meets biomechanics. J Biomech 44:1429-1432.
	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.
	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.
	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