1. Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner was born on September 26,1961 and is a Brazilian geologist and paleontologist who is a leading expert in the field of studying pterosaurs.
16 Facts About Alexander Kellner
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Alexander Kellner's research has focused mainly on fossil reptiles from the Cretaceous Period, including extinct dinosaurs and crocodylomorphs.
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Alexander Kellner has participated in paleontological expeditions to many locations including Brazil, Chile, Iran, the United States, Argentina, China, and Antarctica.
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Alexander Kellner was born in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, son of a German father and Austrian mother.
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Alexander Kellner began studying geology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1981.
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Alexander Kellner earned a Master of Science degree in geology at the UFRJ in 1991, a MPhil degree in 1994, and a Ph.
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Alexander Kellner is chief editor of the Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, the official publication of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
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Alexander Kellner has over 500 publications to his name.
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Alexander Kellner has published more than 160 primary studies and two science books: Pterossauros - os senhores do ceu do Brasil and the novel Na terra dos titas.
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Alexander Kellner is an honourable member of the New York Paleontologial Society and the Paleontological Society of Chile.
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Alexander Kellner is a research associate of the American Museum of Natural History and of the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.
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Alexander Kellner organised the 1999 exposition No Tempo dos Dinossauros at the Museum of Earth Sciences, which has been regarded as a landmark for the establishment of paleontology in Brazil, attracting the attention of the people of Brazilian to the studies of fossils.
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Apart from studying their fossils, Alexander Kellner has performed important theoretical work on pterosaurs, including cladistic studies regarding their phylogeny.
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Alexander Kellner has received numerous honours and prizes, including the TWAS Prize for Earth Sciences from The World Academy of Sciences.
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Alexander Kellner was admitted in the National Order of Scientific Merit, one the Brazilian Federal Government's most prestigious awards.
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The pterosaur Thalassodromeus sethi, which Alexander Kellner described in 2002 with his colleague Diogenes de Almeida Campos, allowed for the establishment of a new hypothesis regarding the use of the head crest in body temperature regulation of pterosaurs.