Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut (born 28 January 1969Profile at isni) is a German vertebrate paleontologist.
Biography Rauhut grew up in Aachen, Germany.Oliver Rauhut: Beine zu Flügeln - Ein Saurier geht in die Luft. On ARD-alpha, Campus TALKS. He completed a degree in Geology/Paleontology at the Free University of Berlin in 1995, earning a Diplom. From 1996 to 1999, he conducted his Ph.D. research at the University of Bristol under David Unwin and was awarded his Ph.D. in May 2000. Since 2004, Rauhut has worked as a curator of lower vertebrates at the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie in Munich. Since 2007, he has also been a Privatdozent at LMU Munich.Lebenslauf Oliver Rauhut (Stand 2004) (PDF; 66 kB)
His research focuses on Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate fauna, especially dinosaur evolution. Rauhut has described, sometimes as a co-author, several dinosaurs including the theropods Aviatyrannis, Condorraptor, Sciurumimus, Wiehenvenator, Suchomimus, Xinjiangovenator and the sauropod Brachytrachelopan, as well as the early bird Alcmonavis. He also described Asfaltomylos, the first Jurassic mammal fossil found in South America.
Rauhut is married and has two children.
Awards 2004: Albert Maucher Prize for Geosciences from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).Dr. Oliver Rauhut - Albert Maucher-Preisträger 2004. On DFG.de. Accessed 10 March 2011.
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