My name is Gregor Mathes and I’m a PostDoc in Analytical Palaeontology applying novel statistical tools to the fossil record.

The goal of my research is to explore how life on Earth interacts with climate, with emphasis on applying this knowledge of the past to the current climate crisis. My PostDoc project is embedded in the research team of Catalina Pimiento, working jointly with Manuel Steinbauer and Wolfgang Kiessling.

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Recent Publications

(2022). Five million years of high atmospheric CO2 in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Geology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G49714.1. Read the publication.

(2022). Benthic foraminifera as bioindicators for assessing reef condition in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Pacific Conservation Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/PC21027. Read the publication.

(2021). Deep-time climate legacies affect origination rates of marine genera. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105769118. Read the publication.

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(2021). Outdoor cycling activity affected by COVID-19 related epidemic-control decisions. Plos one. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249268. Read the publication.

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(2021). Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change. Nature Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01377-w. Read the publication.

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Publications in review

(2023). Spatially heterogenous responses of planktonic foraminifera assemblages over 700,000 years of climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Conference Talks and Presentations

Oct 10, 2022 12:45 — 13:00 Denver, USA
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Oct 10, 2022 12:45 — 13:00 Denver, USA
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Sep 8, 2021 16:15 — 16:20 Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde
A talk on the our current publication in PNAS.
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May 20, 2021 12:45 — 13:00 Online
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Dec 17, 2020 12:30 — 13:30 Online conference
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Awards & Honors

Defended my PhD with highest honors

University of Bayreuth Mar 2023
Summa cum laude for my PhD

Cited in the IPCC’s sixth assessment report

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Mar 2022
Citation for our paper on complex cascading effects in the climate system (Mathes et al. 2021) in chapter 1 of the Working Group 2 SPM

BayCEER Workshop Talk Award winner

Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung (BayCEER) Oct 2020
Presentation title: Extinction risk controlled by climate interactions

Best Student Talk

Conservation Paleobiology Symposium Feb 2020
Presentation title: Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change

Master thesis with distinction

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg Oct 2019
Awarded for master theses with an overall grade below 1.2

Invited talk on carbonate microfacies

Flügel Course Mar 2019
Invited talk at the international course on carbonate microfacies about foraminifera and their applications

Winner of the 1st FAU International Science Slam

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg Dec 2018
The Faculty of Sciences hosted FAU’s first International Science Slam. Presentation title: Warning: the following presentation may contain foraminifera

Language Skills

Representing relative numeric level of skill

R

100%

Markdown

80%

Bash

60%

C++

40%

Python

30%

SQL

25%

Stan

20%

Recent Posts

Research and miscellaneous side projects

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Modeling the central tendency within one sample without the normality assumption

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms

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Modeling the central tendency within one sample

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Interaction terms as a modest introduction to mixed effect models

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Model comparison by means of information criterion and maximum entropy

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Backdoor criterions, conditional independencies, and more causal inference
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