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Public lecture series: Modern dinosaur research

What new insights can we still glean from ancient dinosaur bones? A surprising amount, as demonstrated by this year’s lecture series ‘Modern Dinosaur Research’, organised by the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg in October and November.

In particular, the methods used in palaeontology have advanced tremendously in recent years. Five experts from Germany will now provide an insight into just how diverse and cutting-edge modern dinosaur research is, and what exciting discoveries can be made using the latest methods to analyse bones that are millions of years old.

The lecture series is aimed at anyone who would like to learn how modern high-tech methods and new geological approaches are fundamentally changing our understanding of dinosaurs and their habitats.

A lecture series organised by the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg.

View the programme

  • Dates

    Thursday, 8 October 2026, 7.00 pm
    Dr Emanuel Tschopp, Freie Universität Berlin
    Digital Dinosaurs – what industrial CT scans reveal about the growth of the largest land-dwelling creatures in Earth’s history (held in German)


    Thursday, 15 October 2026, 7.00 pm
    Prof. Dr Thomas Tütken, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
    Isotope analyses provide new insights into the lifestyle and environmental conditions of dinosaurs (held in German)


    Thursday, 29 October 2026, 7.00 pm
    Dr Daniela Winkler, University of Bonn
    Large dinosaurs, tiny traces – what tooth wear reveals about lifestyle and environmental conditions in the Mesozoic (held in German)


    Thursday, 5 November 2026, 7.00 pm
    Dr Christian Foth, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
    New methodological approaches to investigating the preservation of soft tissues in dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates (held in German)


    Thursday, 12 November 2026, 7.00 pm
    Nils Knötschke, freelance palaeontological preparator and scientific consultant
    Beloved beast: Stegosaurus No. 5 – ‘Cheyenne’ from Wyoming to the Dinosaur Museum (held in German)

  • Place

    Main Lecture Hall, 
    Institute for Animal Cell and Systems Biology (IZS), (formerly the Institute of Zoology)
    University of Hamburg, 
    Martin Luther King Square 3, 20146 Hamburg

  • Type

    Series of lectures

  • Target audience

    Adults, students, researchers

  • Costs and participation

    Free of charge

Contact person

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

  • Head of Section Invertebrates

Phone: +49 40 238317 638
E-Mail: a.schmidt-rhaesa@leibniz-lib.de

Dr. Emanuel Tschopp

  • Guest Scientist

Phone: +49 40 238317-710
E-Mail: e.tschopp@leibniz-lib.de

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