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Prof. Dr. Olaf Elicki

Palaeoecology & Evolutionary Biology

Bernhard-von-Cotta-Straße 2, Zimmer 1-212
+49 3731 39-2435
olaf [dot] elicki [at] geo [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de (olaf[dot]elicki[at]geo[dot]tu-freiberg[dot]de)

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Cover des Buchs "Die Entwicklung des Systems Erde".

Curriculum Vitae

YearPosition 
Since 2012Dean of Geosciences Examination Board 
2016 - 2017Head of Department of Palaeontology & Stratigraphy 
2011Professor of Palaeoecology & Evolutionary Biology (associate professor) 
2010

Habilitation: "Cambrian life in Mediterranean carbonate environments and consequences for the geological reconstruction of the early Palaeozoic Perigondwana"

facultas docendi & venia legendi in palaeontology

Docent & Research Associate at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University)

 
1996Awardee of the "Julius-Weißbach Award for Excellence in Teaching" 
1995Lecturer & Research Associate at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University)
1993Head of Rector's Office of Freiberg University
1992

Assistant professor at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University)

Phd: "Facies analysis of the Cambrian carbonates of Germany" (Freiberg University)

1989Diploma: "Palaeontology, lithology and depositional history of the Cambrian carbonates of the Görlitz synclinorium (East Germany)"
1984-1989Studies in geology & palaeontology (Freiberg University)

Teaching (lectures/courses)

  • Evolutionary History of the Earth (bachelor course)
  • Micropalaeontology (bachelor course)
  • Carbonate Microfacies Analysis (bachelor & master course)
  • Palaeoecology (master course)
  • Evolutionary Biology (master course)
  • Palaeoanthropology (master course)

    For more details see Personal Website

Research Interests

  • Life, ecology and deposition in continental-to-marine transitional realms of the early Palaeozoic and late Neoproterozoic
  • Cambrian & Ordovician life and deposition ("small shelly fossils", trace fossils, molluscs, arthropods, sponges, stratigraphy, palaeogeography, sedimentary facies patterns, evolution, ecosystems; southern and Central Europe, Near and Middle East, North Africa)
  • Palaeoecology and sedimentology of Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic marine and continental systems
  • Carbonate microfacies
  • Palaeobiological and sedimentological facies analysis (focus: early Palaeozoic)
  • Foraminiferan stratigraphy and environments (Late Cretaceous)
  • Applied palaeontology & stratigraphy for interim and ultimate storage exploration, for mineral exploration and for engineering geology

    For more details see Personal Website

Selected Publications of Last Years

  • Geyer, G. & Elicki, O. (accepted): Special case study - Cambrian fossils of Central Europe and their palaeogeographic constraints. - In: Linnemann, U. (ed), Geology of the Central European Variscides. Regional Geology Reviews Series. - Springer.
  • Elicki, O. & Breitkreuz, C. (2023): Die Entwicklung des Systems Erde. 2. Aufl., Springer Spektrum: 421 S.
  • Elicki, O., Meischner, T., Gürsu, S., Ghienne, J.-F., Masri, A., Moumani, K.A. & Demircan, H. (2022): The Ordovician in the Levant region (Middle East) and southern Turkey: review of depositional facies, fauna and stratigraphy. - In: Servais, T. et al. (eds), A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System, Part 2. - Geol. Soc. London, Special Publications, 533(1): 253-277, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP533-2022-53.
  • Elicki, O., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Gärtner, A., Klein, D. & Meischner, T. (2020): Zircon geochronology and provenance of the late Proterozoic and early Palaeozoic of southwestern Jordan. – ZDGG (German Journal of Geology), 171(2).
  • Meischner, T., Elicki, O., Masri, A., Moumani, K. & Abdelghafor, M. (2020): Ordovician trace fossils from southern Jordan: taxonomy, stratigraphy and trans-regional correlation throughout the Middle East and northern Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 164: 103595 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103595). In: C. Cónsole-Gonella, R. Prevec, S. De Valais, A. Lagnaoui, I. Díaz-Martínez, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, O. Mateus & O. Elicki (eds), spec. issue "Paleontology of Africa and its role in the paleobiogeography of Gondwana".
  • Meischner, T., Elicki, O., Masri, A., Moumani, K., Ali Hussein, M. & Maletz, J. (2019): The Darriwilian Hiswah fauna of western Gondwana (Jordan): Biostratigraphy, palaeogeography and palaeoecology. Geobios, 57: 53-76.
  • Elicki, O. & Altumi, M.M. (2019): Cambrian trace fossils from North Africa and their contribution to Gondwana's palaeobiogeography and depositional history. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 158. In: C. Cónsole-Gonella, R. Prevec, S. De Valais, A. Lagnaoui, I. Díaz-Martínez, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, O. Mateus & O. Elicki (eds), spec. issue "Paleontology of Africa and its role in the paleobiogeography of Gondwana", DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103556.
  • Atnisha, A., Fatka, O. & Elicki, O. (2017): First evidence of middle to late Cambrian deposition by first palynological data from the Torgau-Doberlug Syncline (subsurface Central Germany, Mediterranean shelf of Gondwana). Journal of Iberian Geology, 43(4): 601-614.
  • Atnisha, A., Hofmann, N., Gärtner, A., Linnemann, U. & Elicki, O. (2017): First U-Pb geochronology on detrital zircons from Early-Middle Cambrian strata of the Torgau-Doberlug Syncline (eastern Germany) and palaeogeographic implications. Journ. Int. Earth Science, 106(7): 2445-2459.
  • Elicki, O. & Geyer, G. (2013): The Cambrian trilobites of Jordan - taxonomy, systematic and stratigraphic significance. Acta Geologica Polonica, 63(1): 1-56.
  • Altumi, M.M., Elicki, O., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Sagawe, A. & Gärtner, A. (2013): U–Pb LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages from the Cambrian of Al Qarqaf Arch, central-western Libya: Provenance of the West Gondwanan sand sea at the dawn of the early Palaeozoic. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 79: 74-97.
  • Elicki, O. (2011): First skeletal microfauna from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Jordan Rift Valley (Middle East). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 42: 153-173.

    For full list see ResearchGate, Academia or Personal Website

Prüfungsausschuss MGEO & BGM (Examination Board)

Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. O. Elicki 

Sprechzeit: mittwochs 13:00-14:00 Uhr oder nach Voranmeldung 

Kontakt: Email & Telefon siehe oben 

 

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