Curriculum Vitae
Olev Vinn
Born in
Education:
Graduated
3. Tallinn Secondary School (Biology class) in 1989.
BSc in
geology from the University of Tartu in 1993.
MSc in palaeontology
and stratigraphy from the University of Tartu in 1995. MSc thesis "The Arenig
graptolite zonation in the Baltic and
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
Practical
classes in the palaeontology.
Membership
of societies:
The Palaeontological Association.
The
Paleontological Society.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
Research fellow:
Senior research
fellow:
International
Correspondent: Geology Today (Wiley-Blackwell) since 2010
Member of Editorial
Board: Paleontology Journal (Hindawi Publishing
Corporation) since 2012;
The Open Paleontology Journal (Bentham Science Publishers) since 2012
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
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.
Peer
Reviewer for:
Acta Palaeontologica
Polonica; Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie
A; Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae;
Bulletin of Geosciences; Facies; Journal of Paleontology; Lethaia;
Marine Biology; Neues Jahrbuch
für Geologie und Paläontologie;
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments;
Palaeontology; Palaios; Paleobiology; Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia;
Science.
expert
for:
Research Grant Council of Hong Kong - external
referee
University of Otago,
New Zealand - external examiner for MSc thesis