Members of the scientific comittee and areas of specialization

Michael Amler (Köln), Carboniferous marine invertebrates. Co-leader of the proposed field trip to the Rhenish Mountains

Markus Aretz (Toulouse), Carboniferous and Permian carbonate environments and reefs.

Ondřej Bábek (Olomouc), Co-leader of proposed field trip to the Mississippian of Moravia; multiproxy stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and climate-eustacy interactions in the Carboniferous

Julien Denayer (Liège), Leader of proposed field trip to the Mississippian of Belgium; Carboniferous stratigraphy and marine macrobiota.

Holger Forke (Berlin), Leader of proposed field trip to the Pennsylvanian and Permian of the Carnic Alps and Karavanke Mts.; Pennsylvanian and Permian fusulines, stratigraphy and regional geology.

Annette Götz (Portsmouth), Permo-Carboniferous of Gondwana and its conventional and unconventional energy resources.

Hans-Georg Herbig (Köln), Carboniferous stratigraphy and facies; Congress Chair. Leader of the proposed field trip to the Rhenish Mountains.

Jiří Kalvoda (Brno), Co-leader of proposed field trip to the Mississippian of Moravia; Carboniferous stratigraphy and marine microbiota.

Hartmut Jäger (Leimen), Palynology, Geochemistry, Organic Maturation, basin and hydrocarbon system development. Co-eader of the proposed field trip to the Rhenish Mountains

Hans Kerp (Münster), Permo-Carboniferous palaeobotany.

Dieter Korn (Berlin), Carboniferous and Permian marine invertebrates, stratigraphy, co-eader of the proposed field trip to the Rhenish Mountains

Tomas Kumpan (Brno), Leader of proposed field trip to the Mississippian of Moravia; multiproxy stratigraphy of Devonian and Carboniferous carbonate successions

Svetlana Nikolaeva (Moscow-London), Vice-chair of the International Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy; Carboniferous stratigraphy and marine macrobiota.

Matevž Novak (Ljubljana), Leader of proposed field trip to the Pennsylvanian and Permian of the Carnic Alps/Karavanke Mts.; Pennsylvanian and Permian palaeontology, stratigraphy and regional geology.

Edouard Poty (Liège), Co-leader of proposed field trip to the Mississippian of Belgium; Carboniferous marine invertebrates, biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy.

Ausonio Ronchi (Pavia), Non-marine Permian basins in Europe, their stratigraphy and biota.

Martin Salamon (Krefeld), Conventional and unconventional Permo-Carboniferous energy resources in Europe.

Jörg Schneider (Freiberg), Vice-chair of the International Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy; Co-leader of the proposed field trip to the classical Northwest-European Permian in central Germany; Permian marine – non-marine correlations.

Hans Peter Schönlaub (Vienna and Kötschach-Mauthen), Leader of proposed field trip to the Pennsylvanian and Permian of the Carnic Alps and Karavanke Mts.; stratigraphy, regional and structural geology, palaeogeography/plate tectonics.

Shuzong Shen (Nanjing), Chair of the International Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy; Permian stratigraphy.

Vladimir Silantiev (Kazan), Chair of the 18th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian; non-marine Permian stratigraphy and biota.

Spencer G. Lucas (Albuquerque), Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate palaeontology and marine – non-marine correlations.

Sebastian Voigt (Thallichtenberg), Leader of the proposed field trip to the Pennsylvanian-Permian non-marine Saar-Nahe Basin, SW Germany; Carboniferous–Triassic non marine biota, palaeoichnology and palaeoenvironments

Xiangdong Wang (Nanjing), Chair of the International Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy; Carboniferous stratigraphy.

Volker Wrede (Krefeld), Leader of the proposed field trip to the Pennsylvanian paralic foreland basin of the Ruhr area; regional and structural geology, coals.

Silvio Zeibig (Kassel), Co-leader of the proposed field trip to the classical Northwest-European Permian in central Germany; Zechstein deposits of central Europe and salt mining.