Curriculum Vitae

Olev Vinn

Born in Tallinn, Estonia, January 26, 1971

Education:

Graduated 3. Tallinn Secondary School in 1989.

BSc in geology from the University of Tartu in 1993.

MSc in geology from the University of Tartu in 1995. MSc thesis "The Arenig

graptolite zonation in the Baltic and Moscow syneclises".

PhD in geology from the University of Tartu 2001. Dissertation

“Morphogenesis and phylogenetic relationships of clitambonitidines,

Ordovician brachiopods”

Teaching:

Lectures on: "Evolution of the early Metazoan"

at the University of Tartu (every spring term 1995-2000).

Practical classes in the palaeontology.

Membership of societies:

The Palaeontological Association. UK -1996

The Paleontological Society. USA - 1997

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Research fellow: University of Tartu 2001-2007

Senior research fellow: University of Tartu since 2007

International Correspondent: Geology Today (Wiley-Blackwell) since 2010

Current research:

(1) Biological affinities of problematic fossils, shell structure and evolution of cornulitids and microconchids.

(2) Biomineralization, ultrastructure and evolution of calcareous tubes in annelids.

(3) Bioerosion (worm-borings) and biofouling of Early Palaeozoic hard substrates, palaeoecology and evolution.

(4) Evolution of symbiosis and predation.

European Commission grants:

09.10.00-01.12.00 in the University of Copenhagen, at the Geologisk Museum.

Project title: “Evolution of the Baltoscandian clitambonitidine and orthidine brachiopods”-supported by COBICE- European Commission.

01.09.03-12.10.03. in Swedish Museum of Natural History

Project title: “Shell structure, palaeoecology, and systematic position of the problematic fossils cornulitids” – supported by HIGH LAT - European Commission.

03.01.05-07.01.05 in Zoological Museum of Amsterdam. Project title: “Tube microstructure in serpulid polychaetes” – supported by the European Commission, SYNTHESYS NL-TAF-111.

10.01.05-18.02.05 in Swedish Museum of Natural History. Project title: “Shell microstructure, taxonomy and stratigraphical distribution of possible early microconchids from the Silurian of Baltoscandia”- supported by the European Commission, SYNTHESYS SE-TAF-113.

03.04.05-14.05.05 in Natural History Museum, London. Project title: “The structure and affinities of cornulitids” – supported by European Commission, SYNTHESYS GB-TAF-188.

22.05.05-18.06.05 in Natural History Museum in Berlin. Project title: “Late Palaeozoic to Early Mesozoic microconchids and the earliest serpulid polychaetes” – supported by the European Commission, SYNTHESYS DE-TAF-122.

09.10.05-29.10.05. in Natural History Museum in Vienna. Project title: “Taxonomic implication of the tube microstructure in serpulid polychaetes from Cretaceous and Cenozoic of Austria and beyond” - supported by the European Commission, SYNTHESYS AT-TAF-611

17.04.06-17.05.06 in Swedish Museum of Natural History. Project title: ’Taxonomic revision and zoological affinities of the genus Anticalyptraea Eichwald, 1860’ - supported by the European Commission, SYNTHESYS SE-TAF-1520.

National grants:

01.01.2002 - 31.12.2004 ‘Sequence stratigraphic aspects in distribution of Estonian Lower Silurian brachiopods, ostracodes, corals and molluscs’ETF5290 Estonian Science Foundation research grant. Principle investigator: Prof. Madis Rubel, partner investigator: Dr. Olev Vinn.

01.01.2003 - 31.12.2007 ‘Environmental indicators, palaeobiology of assemblages and taphonomy in the Palaeozoic seas’ No 0182531s03, Estonian Ministry of Education and Science. Grant holder: Prof. Tõnu Meidla, partner investigator: Dr. Olev Vinn.

01.01.2006-31.12.2008 ‘Tube formation and biomineralization in annelids, its evolutionary and ecological implications’ ETF 6623 Estonian Science Foundation research grant. Principle investigator: Dr. Olev Vinn.

01.01.2008-31.12.2013 ’Ordovician and Silurian climate changes, as documented from the biotic changes and depositional environments in the Baltoscandian Palaeobasin’ Project SF0180051s08, Estonian Ministry of Education and Science. Grant holder: Prof. Tõnu Meidla, partner investigator: Dr. Olev Vinn.

01.01.2012-31.12.2015 ‘Evolution of biomineralization in the serpulid tubeworms (Polychaeta, Annelida)’ ETF9064 Estonian Science Foundation research grant. Principle investigator: Dr. Olev Vinn, partner investigator: Dr. Paul D. Taylor.

Awards:

1992 awarded the prize for written contributions by young researchers by Estonian Geological Society.

2005 Sylvester Bradley Award, Palaeontological Association, London.

Peer Reviewer for:

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A; Bulletin of Geosciences; Facies;

Journal of Paleontology; Lethaia; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie; Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments;

Palaeontology; Palaios; Paleobiology; Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia.

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