# Prof. Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck

**Source**: https://www.geo.lmu.de/en/faculty-for-geosciences/persons/contact-page/dirk-erpenbeck-e7cb8568.html
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Adjunct Professor in the field of geobiology

Scientific director of the molecular paleobiology laboratories

**Office address:**

Richard-Wagner-Str. 10

Room D 012

80333
Munich

[Room finder](https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw1110/map?room=111000008_)

[Send an email](mailto:erpenbeck@lmu.de)

[+49 89 2180 6615](tel:+498921806615)

[Lectures](https://lsf.verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfoPerson&publishSubDir=personal&keep=y&purge=y&personal.pid=49573 "LSF - Link opens in a new window")

[Thesis Topic Selection](https://www.geo.lmu.de/geoumwelt/en/studies/bachelors-and-masters-projects/)

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[CV](#accordionItem-null-0)

[CV Dirk Erpenbeck (PDF, 31 KB)](https://cms-cdn.lmu.de/media/20-geowissenschaften/department-geoumwelt/downloads/cvs/cv_erpenbeck_dirk.pdf "PDF-Link opens in a new window")\

[Roles](#accordionItem-null-1)

- Scientific Manager Molecular Geo- and Paleobiology Labs
- Scientific Secretary GeoBio-CenterLMU
- Member Examination Board, Master's program Geobiology and Paleobiology (MGAP)
- Safety Officer Paleontology and Geobiology, LMU \
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[Awards](#accordionItem-null-2)

- **2023:** Visiting Professor, ITS Surabaya (Indonesia) under the World-Class Professor (WCP-like) ITS 2023 program.
- **2007:** Best Poster Presentation Award, MaNaPro, Queenstown, New Zealand
- **2005:** Marie-Curie Outgoing Fellowship of the European Union (MOIF-CT-2004-002882) on the evolution of keratose sponges

- [GoogleScholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jm0d4TcAAAAJ&hl=de "Link opens in a new window")
- [Web of Science](https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/OMN-4849-2025 "Link opens in a new window")
- [Porifera](https://www.porifera.userweb.mwn.de/ "Link opens in a new window")

## Research

My research interests comprise all aspects of evolution of sessile invertebrate animals, particularly sponges: Biodiversity, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, character evolution, evolution of secondary metabolite production, genome evolution, methods for molecular identification etc.\

## Publications