Dr. Wolfgang Schatz
Dr. sc. nat.
Secretary General until April 2021
Head of Quality Management and Sustainability until May 2021
CV
Master in Earth Sciences ( ETH/University of Zurich). PhD in Paleontology (University of Zurich). Senior Researcher at the Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich (2000 - 2006). Leading different projects in relation to the European Bologna Reform in Higher Education, Curriculum Development and Teaching Development at the ETH Zurich. Lecturer in Earth Sciences and Paleontology at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, lecturer at the University of Lucerne. Teacher in faculty development courses at the University of Berne and the University of Zurich.
At the University of Lucerne since 2008 as Head of Academic Services or Academic Director, since 2017 as Secretary General.
Research
A selection of completed research projects in paleontology.
From Morphology to Functionality - Development and application of a Bivalve Burrowing Simulation
Abstract
In this interdisciplinary project with scientists from paleontology and computer science, one tries to deepen the understanding of evolution of bivalves using computer simulated evolution. These animals live in different habitats, where they hide in different soils. The differences of these habitats, let them develop different digging behaviors and different shells to hide from predators. In order to understand the different selection pressures leading to different shell shapes as well as digging behavior, we simulate different bivalves in simulation and try to evolve different kinds of bivalves. These evolved results are then produced in a 3D-printer and also tried out with a digging robot consisting of the shells and an actuating mechanisms. The obtained results are then compared with living bivalves as well as with fossils.
The project aims towards two different goals: In Paleontology we hope to discern in simulation the effects of the selection pressure for "good* digging on the shape of the shells and the digging behavior. In computer science we hope to deepen our understanding of evolution in order to construct better artificial evolutionary systems.
ProjectLeaders
Dr. Peter Eggenberger Hotz,
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Universität Zürich
Dr. Wolfgang Schatz,
Universität Luzern
Funding
SNF Project no. 113934
Duration
2008–2013
PamirsJointProject - Stratigraphy of Mid-Upper Triassic sequences of South-Eastern Pamirs with analysis of distribution of bivalves (Halobidae), corals, ammonoids and conodonts
Abstract
This international project is an interdisciplinary approach to broaden the understanding of the complex interaction between biotic and abiotic processes. The advantage of palaeobiological studies is the possibility to follow fauna successions through time and different environments. Therefore, it is intended to provide new and better insights into topical questions within palaeobiology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy.
The South-Eastern Pamirs (Gorno-Badachsan, Tajikistan) is an ideal area for the above-mentioned interdisciplinary study. The Triassic sequences (250-205 Ma.) of South-Eastern Pamirs are characterized by a heterotropic development of facies (platform - basin successions) and a rich cosmopolitan invertebrate fauna. Furthermore, the Mid-Upper Triassic sequences seem to be without gaps, thus a maximum of information is ensured.
In a first step, an exploratory field study was accomplished.
Main goals
- To establish a global stratigraphic correlation for Mid-Upper Triassic sequences, based on fossils.
- To understand the evolutive pathways and global spreading patterns of halobiids bivalves and corals.
- To do comparative analyses and correlations of basin-reef succession (stratigraphic correlation, platform growth, sea level curves, Milankovich-cyclicity).
- To apprehend the palaeoecology of so called "paper pectens" (thin shelled bivalves from black shales).
Index Terms
Triassic, Bivalvia, Daonella, Halobia, Pamirs, Tajikistan
ProjectLeader
Wolfgang Schatz, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich
In Collaboration with
- Prof. Dr. Andrej V. Dronov, Geological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Dr. Victor Dronov, Geological Institute of the Tadjik Academy of Science, Dushanbe, Tadschikistan
Student participation (Master-Thesis)
- Andrej Stogansov, State University of St. Petersburg, Russia
Funding
- G. & A. Claraz-Schenkung, Zurich
- Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries
- Commission for Oceanography and Limnology
Duration
2003–2005
Combining Genetical, Developmental, and Evolutionary Processes in an Artificial System to Evolve the Morphology of the Precambrian Dickinsonia costata
Abstract
The goal of this project was the development of an artificial system in order to examine the evolutionary relations between genome changes and external morphology. This goal was achieved by combining genetical, developmental, and evolutionary processes to evolve the morphology of the Precambrian fossil Dickinsonia costata. On one hand computer science may provide a reliable tool to investigate aspects of morphology and ecology of a fossil organism, which cannot be gained by the fossil record. On the other hand, paleontology provides an insight into the processes of morphological changes in time (e.g. anagegesis, evolutionary pathways). Therefore, paleontology improves our knowledge about evolutionary processes. In this work collaboration between computer science and paleontology is established using the advantages of one another.
The artificial evolutionary model is based on cells each equipped with a genome. Each gene within the genome is linked to a function or a product (analog of a structural gene) and is regulated by one or several regulatory units. Each cell will perform its linked function (cell division and cell adhesion) depending on the subset of active genes. Cellular interactions implemented as viscoelastic elements are simulated. A differential genetic regulatory network -controlling the developmental processes - forms the core of the artificial evolutionary system. It is coupled to a simulator, which describes intercellular forces.
In the field of paleontology and computer science further applications of the herein proposed artificial evolutionary system are conceivable like investigations on phenotypic plasticity, simulating locomotion of extinct organisms (and therefore a possible linking of fossil traces and its originator), new approaches in development and control of modular robots.
Index Terms
Artificial evolutionary system, computer simulation, Ediacara biota, Dickinsonia costata
ProjectLeaders
Eggenberger Hotz, Peter, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich
Wolfgang Schatz, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich
In Collaboration with
- Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich
- Prof. Dr. R. Wehner, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich
Student participation (Master-Thesis)
- dipl. zool. Maik Hadorn, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Duration
2003–2005
Biostratigraphic investigation in the Middle Triassic sediments of Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg (Austria)
Abstract
The biostratigraphic framework of the Arlberg area has never been studied in detail. Therefore, we established detailed profiles of the Middle Triassic basins and platforms. The aim of the study was a reliable (biostratigraphic) correlation of the Eastern Alps and the Southern Alps. This will help to construct an enhanced palaeogeographic pattern of this area. Our reconstructions, based on bivalves, palynomorphs, and lithological correlations, overcome the stratigraphic problems which prevailed due to the scarcity of ammonoids in the sections.
Index Terms
Triassic, Bivalvia, Daonella, Biostratigraphy, Palynology, Northern Calcareous Alps
ProjectLeader
Wolfgang Schatz, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich
- Dr. Robert Mundil, Geochronology Center, Berkeley University USA
- PD Dr. Peter Hochuli, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr. Peter Brack, Geological Institute ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Student participation (Master-Thesis)
- dipl. geol. Thomas Brühwiler, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Duration
2002–2004
Palaeoecology, fluctuations in conch morphology, palaeobiogeography, extinctions and immigrations of Triassic cephalopods from the Germanic Basin
Abstract
Among the few cephalopod genera from the Muschelkalk, specimens of the ammonoid genera Cerat-ites and Paraceratites outnumber representatives of other genera with respect to diversity, morpho-logical disparity, as well as abundance by far. During the late Anisian and Ladinian, the species of Ceratites and Paraceratites underwent continuous morphological transformations that are reflected in a fairly large number of species and subspecies as well as successive biozones, respectively.
For a stratophenetic analysis of Middle Triassic ammonoids from the German Muschelkalk, data sets of numerous specimens of Ceratites and Paraceratites, were evaluated in scattergraphs as well as canonical discriminant function analyses. Several of the diagrams, which were produced in these analyses, reflect more or less steady changes in conch morphology through geological time, except for some intervals with abrupt and drastic transformations. These morphological discontinuities are synchronous with immigrations of crinoid and brachiopod taxa. This indicates disturbances in the endemic evolution of the ammonoids caused by extinctions and immigrations. At a small scale, this case study demonstrates that a rising sea-level may have boosted the faunal exchange between an open marine and a restricted epicontinental basin, causing a minor regional increase in biodiversity.
Project Leader
Christian Klug, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich; Switzerland
Dr. W. Schatz (Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich; Switzerland)
Dr. D. Korn (Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Germany)
A. G. Reisdorf (Universität Basel, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut; Switzerland)
Duration
2003–2005
Projects
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Software-Anwendung zur Analyse und Visualisierung von Forschungsleistungen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
2016–2017 -
Ressourcen-basiertes Instrument zur Abbildung geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung am Beispiel der Theologie
2013–2017 -
From Morphology to Functionality
2008–2013 -
Stratigraphy of Mid-Upper Triassic sequences of South-Eastern Pamirs with analysis of distribution of bivalves (Halobidae), corals, ammonoids and conodonts
2003–2005 -
Combining Genetical, Developmental, and Evolutionary Processes in an Artificial System to Evolve the Morphology of the Precambrian Dickinsonia costata
2003–2005 -
Palaeoecology, fluctuations in conch morphology, palaeobiogeography, extinctions and immigrations of Triassic cephalopods from the Germanic Basin
2003–2005 -
Biostratigraphic investigation in the Middle Triassic sediments of Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg (Austria)
2002–2004
Publications
- Schatz, W. (2005). Taxonomie, Paläoökologie und biostratigraphische Anwendung der Daonellen (Bivalvia, Mollusca) aus der Mitteltrias Europas (Vol. 125). Basel: Kommission der Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen.
- Schatz, W., & Bucher, H. (2002). Paläontologische Exkursion in die Tongrube Frick, Samstag, 20. April 2002 : Thema: Veränderung der Fauna zwischen dem oberen Trias und dem unteren Jura. Zürich: Paläontologisches Institut.
- Germann, D. P., Schatz, W., & Eggenberger Hotz, P. (2014). Artificially evolved functional shell morphology of burrowing bivalves. Palaeontologia Electronica, (Artikelnummer 17. 1.8A), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1284210
- Germann, D. P., Schatz, W., & Hotz, P. E. (2011). Artificial Bivalves – The Biomimetics of Underwater Burrowing. Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), 169–172. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1216949
- Monastirsayam, T. I., & Schatz, W. (2009). Estimation of the student´s burden in terms of European examination unit´s system (in Russian). Higher Education Today, (6), 9–13.
- Schatz, W., & Woschnack, U. (2008). Forschungsorientierte Ausbildung: Qualifikationsprofile in der Curriculumsentwicklung von Masterstudiengängen. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, ZFHE, 3 (4), 58–70. https://doi.org/10.5072/zenodo.62853
- Schatz, W., & Woschnack, U. (2007). Qualität in der Lehre und Studium: über die Notwendigkeit expliziter Qualitätskonzepte an Hochschulen. Qualität in der Wissenschaft, 1 (4), 95–104.
- Brühwiler, T., Hochuli, P. . A., Schatz, W., & Brack, P. (2007). Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic Reifling Formation of the westernmost Northern Calcareous Alps. Swiss Journal of Geoscience, 100 (3), 443–455. https://doi.org/10.5072/zenodo.62820
- Schatz, W., & Woschnack, U. (2006). Workload Planungstool. Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre, (2.8), 1–24.
- Schatz, W. (2005). Palaeoecology of the Triassic black shale bivalve Daonella: new insights into an old controversy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 216 (3–4), 189–201. https://doi.org/10.5072/zenodo.62821
- Klug, C., Schatz, W., Korn, D., & Reisdorf, A. G. (2005). Morphological fluctuations of ammonoid assemblages from the Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of the Germanic Basin: indicators of their ecology, extinctions, and immigrations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221 (1–2), 7–34. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018205000635
- Klug, C., Schatz, W., Korn, W., & Reisdorf, A. (2004). Ammonoideen des Germanischen Beckens in der Mitteltrias - Stratophänetische Analyse, Lebensweise, Aussterben und Einwanderungen. Terra Nostra, (5), 4.
- Schatz, W. (2004). Revision of the subgenus Daonella (Arzelella) (Halobiidae, Middle Triassic). Journal of Paleontology, 78 (2), 300–316. https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078
- Brühwiler, T., Schatz, W., Hochuli, P. A., & Brack, P. (2003). Biostratigraphic investigation in the Middle Triassic sediments of Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg (Austria). Terra Nostra, (5), 33–34.
- Schatz, W. (2001). Lebensweise und Paläoökologie der Daonellen (Daonella, Bivalvia, Mittel-Trias). Terra Nostra, (6), 101.
- Schatz, W. (2001). Taxonomic significance of biometric characters and the consequences for classification and biostratigraphy, exemplified through moussoneliform daonellas (Daonella, Bivalvia; Triassic). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 75 (1), 51–70. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03022598
- Schatz, W. (2001). Revision der Untergattung Daonella (Pichlerella) (Bivalvia, Ladin). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 94, 389–398.
- Schatz, W. (2000). Die Muschelgattung Daonella (Bivalvia) als neues biostratigraphisches Leitfossil für die Mitteltrias. (The bivalve genus Daonella (Bivalvia) in use as a new guide fossil for the middle Triassic time). Terra Nostra, (3), 104.
- Schatz, W. (1999). Klassifikation von Daonellen der Artengruppe Daonella moussoni mit hoher morphologischer Variabilität unter Berücksichtigung der lithologischen, ökophänetischen und allometrischen Abhängigkeiten der Merkmale: Classification of Daonellids of the species group Daonella moussoni having high morphologic variability under consideration of the lithological, ecophenotypic, and allometric dependency of the characters. Terra Nostra, 66.
- Furrer, H., Lanz, H., Schatz, W., Hebeisen, M., & Oberli, U. (1998). Neue Fossilien-Grabungen in der Mitteltrias des Monte San Giorgio, TI | O De nouvelles fouilles paleontologiques dans le Trias moyen du Monte San Giorgio (TI). Schweizer Strahler, 11 (5), 177–192.
- Schatz, W. (2020). Die Universität Luzern - von der ‘Geburt’ bis heute. In Mattioli, Aram & Ries, Markus (Eds.), Weg der Universität Luzern (Vol. 35, pp. 41–43). Luzern: Universität Luzern.
- Germann, D. P., Schatz, W., & Eggenberger, P. (2010). Bivalve burrowing robots: correlating shell morphology and movement pattern with burrowing efficiency. In A. Carpi & C. Brebbia (Eds.), Design & Nature V: Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering (Vol. 138, pp. 389–402). Southampton: WitPress. Retrieved from http://www.witpress.com/books/978-1-84564-454-3
- Woschnack, U., & Schatz, W. (2010). Trust is good, control better? About the contradictoriness of evaluation in higher education. In ICED (Ed.), ICED2010 (p. 198). Barcelona: ICED. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1304806
- Schatz, W. (2009). Forschungsorientierter, interdisziplinärer Unterricht in einem multidisziplinären Umfeld. In Berendt, Brigitte, Voss, Hans-Peter & Wildt, Johannes (Eds.), Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre. Lehren und Lernen effizient gestalten: Veranstaltungsformen. Fachübergreifende Lehr- und Lernformen, E. 1.6 (pp. 1–18). Berlin: DUZ. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1288625
- Germann, D., Schatz, W., Hadorn, M., Fischer, A., & Eggenberger, H. P. (2008). Correlation between morphology, behaviour and habitat -- bivalve burrowing in simulation and robotics. In ScNat (Ed.), 6th Geoscience Meeting (pp. 123–124). Bern: ScNat. Retrieved from https://www.unilu.ch/fileadmin/shared/Publikationen/sgm_2009_abstract_vol_book_v4-123.pdf
- Woschnack, U., Schatz, W., & Eugster, B. (2008). Prüfungen als Schlüsselement der kompetenzbasierter Curricula - das Lernziel-Leistungskontroll orientierte Curriculumsmodell (LLC). In S. Dany, B. Szczyrba & J. Wildt (Eds.), Prüfungen auf die Agenda - Hochschuldidaktische Perspektiven auf Reformen im Prüfungswesen (Vol. 118, pp. 58–73). Bielefeld: wbv. Retrieved from https://books.google.ch/books?id=XK01xRTieI8C&pg=PA58&dq=%22Wolfgang+schatz%22&hl=de&ei=xm64TJehNYXP4AbhsuXODg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q=%22Wolfgang%20schatz%22&f=false
- Schatz, W., Lutz, L., & Woschnack, U. (2007). Are we really training students to do research? Qualification profiles of course programs and their implications for curriculum development. In Wolfgang Schatz, Ute Woschnack, B. Eugster, L. Lutz & D. Rodgers (Eds.), Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna (pp. 48–49). Zürich: Didaktikzentrum der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETH).
- Woschnack, U., & Schatz, W. (2007). Bologna Projekte des Didaktikzentrums der ETH Zürich. In Wolfgang Schatz, Ute Woschnack, B. Eugster, L. Lutz & D. Rodgers (Eds.), Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna (pp. 108–115). Zürich: Didaktikzentrum der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETH).
- Kuark, J. K., & Schatz, W. (2007). Defining and Implementing Self-Directed Learning. In Wolfgang Schatz, Ute Woschnack, B. Eugster, L. Lutz & D. Rodgers (Eds.), Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna (pp. 63–64). Zürich: Didaktikzentrum der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETH).
- Schatz, W. (2007). Forschungsorientierter Unterricht in einem interdisziplinären Umfeld. In Wolfgang Schatz, Ute Woschnack, B. Eugster, L. Lutz & D. Rodgers (Eds.), Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna (pp. 68–69). Zürich: Didaktikzentrum der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETH).
- Schatz, W., & Woschnack, U. (2007). Student workload planning tool. In Wolfgang Schatz, Ute Woschnack, B. Eugster, L. Lutz & D. Rodgers (Eds.), Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna (p. 50). Zürich: Didaktikzentrum der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETH).
- Schatz, W., & Woschnack, U. (2006). Do we need new educational quality criteria due to the European Bologna reform? In ICED (Ed.), ICED 6th Conference of the International Consortium for Education ‘Enhancing Academic Development Practice: International Perspectives’ (pp. 228–229). Sheffield, UK: ICED.
- Schatz, W., & Woschnack, U. (2006). Student workload planning tool. In ICED (Ed.), ICED 6th Conference of the International Consortium for Education ‘Enhancing Academic Development Practice: International Perspectives’ (p. 158). Sheffield, UK: ICED.
- Schatz, W. (2004). The evolutionary pathway of Halobiiforms (Bivalvia) in the Southeastern Pamirs. In ScNat (Ed.), Swiss Geoscience Meeting (Vol. 2, p. 286). Lausanne: ScNat. Retrieved from http://geoscience-meeting.scnatweb.ch/sgm2004/abstracts_2004/Schatz.pdf
- Hadorn, M., Schatz, W., & Eggenberger, P. (2004). Were Adam and Eve Ediacarians? - A possible sexual dimorphism in Dickinsonia costata. In ScNat (Ed.), Swiss Geoscience Meeting (Vol. 2, p. 164). Lausanne: ScNat. Retrieved from http://geoscience-meeting.scnatweb.ch/sgm2004/abstracts_2004/Hadom_Schatz_et_al.pdf
- Brühwiler, T., Schatz, W., Hochuli, P. A., & Brack, P. (2003). Biostratigraphic investigation in the Middle Triassic sediments of Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg (Austria). In IGCP 467 (Ed.), Triassic Geochronology and Cyclostratigraphy: A Field Symposium (p. 50). St. Christina / Val Gardena: IGCP 467.
- Schatz, W. (2003). Geology. In T. Breu & H. Hurni (Eds.), The Tajik Pamirs: Challenges of Sustainable Development in an isolated mountain Region (p. 9). Bern: Centre of Development and Environment (CDE), University of Berne.
- Schatz, W. (2003). Taxonomic significance of biometric characters and the consequences for classification and biostratigraphy, examplified through Middle Triassic daonellas (Daonella, Bivalvia). In Muséum National Histoire Naturelle Paris (Ed.), Morphométrie et evolution des formes, 3ème Symposium (p. 53). Paris: GDR CNRS.
- Schatz, W. (2003). The flat clam Daonella as a reliable tool for supraregional biostratigraphic correlation for the Middle Triassic. In IGCP 467 (Ed.), Triassic Geochronology and Cyclostratigraphy (p. 50). St. Christina, Italy: IGCP 467.
- Brack, P., Mundil, R., Mouttoni, G., Rieber, H., & Schatz, W. (2002). Anisian/Ladinian boundary successions in the Southern Alps: a review and integration of litho-, bio-, magneto- and chronostratigraphic results from the last dacade. In STS/IGCP 467 (Ed.), STS/IGCP 467 Field meeting (pp. 18–20). Veszprém, Hungary: STS/IGCP 467.
- Schatz, W. (2001). Taphonomische Prozesse. (Taphonomic processes). In Swiss Palaeontological Society (Ed.), Meeting of the ‘Arbeitskreis Frick’ and Swiss Palaeontological Society (p. 9). Zürich: Swiss Palaeontological Society.
- Schatz, W. (2000). Die Muscheln der Gattung Gryphaea. Bivalvs of the genus Gryphaea. In Swiss Palaeontological Society (Ed.), Meeting of the ‘Arbeitskreis Frick’ and Swiss Palaeontological Society (p. 10). Zürich: Swiss Palaeontological Society.
- Schatz, W. (2000). Die taxonomische Unschärfe von Aussterbeereignissen. Katastrophismus vs. Gradualismus. (Taxonomic shortcomings of extinction events - catastrophism vs. gradualism). In SCNAT (Ed.), 180th. Annual meeting of the Swiss Academy of Natural Science SANW (p. 15). Bern: SCNAT.
- Schatz, W. (2000). Klassifikation von Fossilien mit hoher morphologischer Variabilität unter Berücksichtigung der lithologischen, ökophänetischen und allometrischen Abhängigkeiten der Merkmale am Beispiel der Daonellen (Bivalvia): Classification of fossils with a high morphologic variability under consideration of the lithological, ecophenotypic, and allometric dependency of the characters on the example of Daonellas (Bivalvia). In Bauer, Christian & Kropf, Hannes (Eds.), Systematik: Contribution to Natural History (Vol. 2, pp. 51–52). Bern: Naturmuseum Bern. Retrieved from https://www.unilu.ch/fileadmin/shared/Publikationen/schatz_2000_klassifikation-von-fossilien-mit-hoher-morphologischer-variabilitaet.pdf
- Schatz, W. (1998). Muscheln und ihre Lebensweise (Palökologie) am Beispiel des Lias von Frick. (Bivalves and their mode of life (palaeoecology) on the example of the Liassic of Frick). In Swiss Palaeontological Society (Ed.), Meeting of the ‘Arbeitskreis Frick’ and Swiss Palaeontological Society (p. 7). Zürich: Swiss Palaeontological Society.
- Totter, Alexandra, Lutz, Lieni, Abd-el-razik, A., Eugster, Balthasar, Grund, S., Mittag, S., … Woschnack, Ute (Eds.). (2007). Abschlussbericht der Phase 1 des Road Map Projektes: Massnahmen zur Verbesserung von Lehre und Studium an der ETH Zürich. Zürich: Didaktikzentrum, ETH Zürich.
- Schatz, Wolfgang, Woschnack, Ute, Eugster, Balthasar, Lutz, Lieni, & Rodgers, Davida (Eds.). (2007). Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna. Zürich: Didaktikzentrum der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Zürich.
- Mattioli, A., & Ries, M. (Hrg. . (2020). Weg der Universität Luzern: Historische Meilensteine der universitären Bildung und Forschung in Luzern. Luzerner Universitätsreden, 35. Retrieved from https://www.unilu.ch/fileadmin/universitaet/unileitung/dokumente/universitaetsreden/Unireden_35.pdf
- Martens, S., & Schatz, W. (2017). Äpfel und Birnen kann man nicht vergleichen? unilu Aktuell, (58), 1–3.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (14 June 2017). Zufriedenheit mit dem Studium an der Universität Luzern. Ergebnisse der Absolventenbefragung 2015. Befragung ein Jahr nach dem Studienabschluss – Kohorte 2014. Interner Bericht.
- Pohl, C., Bienz, D., Wastl-Walter, D., Graefe, O., Ognois, L., Frund, B., … Wülser, G. (2017). Sustainable Development at Universities Programme (No. 12 (1)) (pp. 1–18). Bern: Akademien der Wissenschaft.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2017). Vom Studium in den Beruf. Analyse der Daten aus Absolventenbefragungen Kohorten mit Abschlussjahrgang 2010, 2012 und 2014.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2016). Akademischer Bericht 2015. Interner Bericht an der Univerität Luzern.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2015). Zufriedenheit mit dem Studium an der Universität Luzern. Ergebnisse der Absolventenbefragung 2013. Interner Bericht.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2014). Akademischer Bericht 2013. Interner Bericht an der Universität Luzern.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2013). Zufriedenheit mit dem Studium an der Universität Luzern. Ergebnisse der Absolventenbefragung 2011. Befragung ein Jahr nach dem Studienabschluss. Interner Bericht an der Universität Luzern. Universität Luzern.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2012). Forschungsleistungen an der Universität Luzern. Auswertung der Daten aus dem Akademischen Bericht 2012: Interner Bericht an der Universität Luzern.
- Dampz, M., & Schatz, W. (2012). Zufriedenheit mit der Bibliothek der Universität Luzern: Interner Bericht.
Achievements
- European Quality Audit. Discussion contribution, Netzwerke als Motor der Qualitätsentwicklung, Netzwerk Quality Audit, Potsdam, 2019
- Diversity. Chair/panel-moderation, European Quality Audit - Work conference 2018, University of Latvia, Riga, 2018
- Daten in Studiengangsevaluationen. Lecture, Evaluation der Lehre, swissuniversities, Pädagogische Hochschule Bern, 2018
- How we can bring more research in our curricula. Chair/panel-moderation, Data, Rigor, & Faculty Development, Swiss Faculty Delvelopment Network, Luzern, 2018
- Wie soll man die Forschungsqualität in den Geisteswissenschaften messen? Ein ressourcenbasiertes Instrument zur Abbildung geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung am Beispiel der Theologie. Lecture, Qualität verstehen - Komplexität managen. 3. Internationale Tagung für Qualitätsmanagement und Qualitätsentwicklung im Hochschulbereich, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, 2017
- Software-Anwendung zur Analyse und Visualisierung von Forschungsleistungen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Poster, Swiss Way to Research Quality, Perormance de la Recherche en Science humaines et social - swissuniversities, Bern, 2016
- Forschungsinformationen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Welche Daten für welche Zwecke. (Panel) contribution, Swiss Way to Research Quality, Performances de la recherche en science humaines et sociales, Bern, 2016
- Quality criteria and indicators for research in Theology - What to do with quantitative measures. Lecture, 21st international conference on science and technology indicators (STI), Univerversity of València, València, 2016
- Criteria and indicators for visualising theological research and evaluationg its quality - a bottom-up approach. Lecture, Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Hunmaities, EvalHum, Rennes, 2015
- Artificial Bivalves – The Biomimetics of Underwater Burrowing. Lecture, 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, 2011
- Bivalve burrowing robots: correlating shell morphology and movement pattern with burrowing efficiency. Lecture, 5th International Conference on Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering (Design & Nature), Pisa, 2010
- Actuated Bivalve Robot Study of the Burrowing Locomotion in Sediment. Lecture, IEEE Conference, Ancorage, 2010
- Trust is good, control better? About the contradictoriness of evaluation in higher education. Lecture, Enhancing Strategies for Global Quality Learning in Higher Education, ICED International Consortium for Educational Development, Barcelona, 2010
- Correlation between morphology, behaviour and habitat -- bivalve burrowing in simulation and robotics. Poster, 6th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, ScNat, Lugano, 2008
- Defining and Implementing Self-Directed Learning. Lecture, Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 2007
- Forschungsorientierter Unterricht in einem interdisziplinären Umfeld. Lecture, Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 2007
- Are we really training students to do research? Qualification profiles of course programs and their implications for curriculum development. Poster, Exzellenz in der Lehre - Lehren und Lernen nach Bologna, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 2007
- Do we need new educational quality criteria due to the European Bologna reform. Lecture, Enhancing Academic Development Practice: International Perspectives, Conference of the International Consortium for Education ICED, Sheffield, 2006
- Biostratigraphic investigation in the Middle Triassic sediments of Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg (Austria). Lecture, Geobiology, Palaeontological Society, Göttingen, 2004
- The evolutionary pathway of Halobiiforms (Bivalvia) in the Southeastern Pamirs. Lecture, Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Schweizerische Geologische Gesellschaft, Lausanne, 2004
- Were Adam and Eve Ediacarians? - A possible sexual dimorphism in Dickinsonia costata. Poster, Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Swiss Academy of Science, Lausanne, 2004
- The flat clam Daonella as a reliable tool for supraregional biostratigraphic correlation for the Middle Triassic. Lecture, 72nd Annual Assembly of the Palaeontological Society, Palaeontological Society, Mainz, 2003
- The flat clam Daonella as a reliable tool for supraregional biostratigraphic correlation for the Middle Triassic. Lecture, Triassic Time and Trans-Panthalassan correlations, IGCP, St. Christina, 2003
- Taxonomic significance of biometric characters and the consequences for classification and biostratigraphy, examplified through Middle Triassic daonellas (Daonella, Bivalvia). Poster, Morphométrie et evolution des formes, 3ème Symposium, GDR CNRS, Paris, 2003
- Anisian/Ladinian boundary successions in the Southern Alps: a review and integration of litho-, bio-, magneto- and chronostratigraphic results from the last dacade. Lecture, STS/IGCP 467 Field meeting, Brack, P.; Mundil, R.; Mouttoni, G.; Rieber, H.; Schatz, Wolfgang, Veszprém, 2002
- Taphonomische Prozesse. Lecture, Jahrestreffen des Arbeitskreis Frick und der Schweizer Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Schweizer Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Frick, 2001
- Lebensweise und Paläoökologie der Daonellen (Daonella, Bivalvia, Mittel-Trias). Lecture, 72nd Annual Assembly of the Paleontological Society, Paleontological Society, Oldenburg, 2001
- Klassifikation von Fossilien mit hoher morphologischer Variabilität unter Berücksichtigung der lithologischen, ökophänetischen und allometrischen Abhängigkeiten der Merkmale am Beispiel der Daonellen (Bivalvia). Systematika 2000, Naturmuseum Bern, Bern, 2000
- Die taxonomische Unschärfe von Aussterbeereignissen. Katastrophismus vs. Gradualismus. Lecture, 180th. annual meeting of the Swiss Academy of Natural Science SANW, Swiss Academy of Natural Science SANW, Winterthur, 2000
- Die Muscheln der Gattung Gryphaea. Bivalvs of the genus Gryphaea. Lecture, Jahrestreffen des Arbeitskreis Frick und der Schweizer Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Schweizer Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Frick, 2000
- Die Muschelgattung Daonella (Bivalvia) als neues biostratigraphisches Leitfossil für die Mitteltrias. Lecture, 71st Annual Assembly of the Palaeontological Society, Palaeontological Society, University of Coburg, Coburg, 2000
- Klassifikation von Daonellen der Artengruppe Daonella moussoni mit hoher morphologischer Variabilität unter Berücksichtigung der lithologischen, ökophänetischen und allometrischen Abhängigkeiten der Merkmale. Lecture, Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Zürich, 1999
- Muscheln und ihre Lebensweise (Palökologie) am Beispiel des Lias von Frick. Lecture, Jahrestreffen des Arbeitskreis Frick und der Schweizer Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Schweizer Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Frick, 1998
- Zentralschweizer Begegnungstag Gymnasien - Hochschulen, Member of organisation committee, Luzern, 2017
- Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2016 - HOW TO DEVELOP A SUCCESSFUL INTER- AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY PROPOSAL Bringing together researchers' and funders' perspectives, Member of organisation committee, Universität Luzern, 2016
- Tage der offenen Tür, Member of organisation committee, Luzern, 2011
- Workload Planungstool ETHZ: Präsentation und praktischer Versuch. Workshop "Workload reloaded - Einblicke in die Praxis", Bern, 2015
- Workload - einfaches Konzept mit hoher Komplexität. Workshop "Workload reloaded - Einblicke in die Praxis", Bern, 2015
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Rothenburg, 2013
- Die neuen Medien und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Studium. AGAB Fachtagung, Luzern, 2011
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Schaffhausen, 2011
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Bern, 2010
- Gifttiere im Meer. Museumsvorträge, Winterthur, 2010
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Zernez, 2009
- Massenaussterben und Evolution. Ringvorlesung zum Darwin-Jahr, 2009
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Bad Ragaz, 2009
- Katastrophen in der Erdgeschichte. Museumsvorträge, Winterthur, 2008
- Fossilien in der Mythologie und im Volksglauben. Museumsvortrag, Winterthur, 2008
- Ediacara-Fauna, Experimente der Evolution. Winterthur, 2007
- Fossilien in der Mythologie und im Volksglauben. Eglisau, 2007
- Gift, Pfeile und spitze Zähne – die "Bewaffnung" mariner Invertebraten. Museumsvorträge, Winterthur, 2007
- Die Geologie des Pamirs. Winterthur, 2006
- Muscheln am Meeresstrand – wie bestimme ich meine Feriensouvenirs? Winterthur, 2006
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Reussbühl, Luzern, 2006
- Fossilien in der Mythologie und im Volksglauben. Museumsvorträge, Zürich, 2005
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Winterthur, 2005
- Forschung auf dem Dach der Welt – die Geologie des Pamir. Museumsvorträge, Zürich, 2005
- Forschung auf dem Dach der Welt – die Geologie des Pamir. Museumsvorträge, Winterthur, 2005
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. 2005
- Katastrophen und Massenaussterben in der Erdgeschichte. Zürich, 2004
- Leichen auf dem Meeresboden – die Arbeit der Urzeitdetektive. Museumsvorträge, Zürich, 2004
- Gift, Pfeile und spitze Zähne – die "Bewaffnung" mariner Invertebraten. Museumsvorträge, Zürich, 2004
- Brachiopoden – unbekannte Bewohner der Meere seit 540 Millionen Jahren. Zürich, 2003
- Der Berg der Saurier – der Monte San Giorgio als Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO. Winterthur, 2003
- Fossilien im Volksglauben und in der Mythologie. Winterthur, 2002
- Der Mikrokosmos – die grosse Welt der kleinen Tiere. Winterthur, 2002
- Tiere im Meeresboden. Winterthur, 2001
- Trilobiten – Tiere der Urzeit. Winterthur, 2001
- Bryozoen – Baumeister im Mikrokosmos. Winterthur, 2000
- Die Vielgestaltigkeit der Muschelschale. Winterthur, 1999
- Massenaussterben. Winterthur, 1999
- Evolution. Winterthur, 1998
- Erhaltung und Fossilien. Winterthur, 1998
- Auditor, Universtität Siegen
- Mitglied Stiftungsrat, Swiss School of Public Health SSPH+, 2014–2021
- Member of a scientific advisory board, Instituto Svizzero di Roma, 2017–2021
- Sounding Board Mitglied, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern ZHB, 2018–2018
- Member of a scientific advisory board, Swiss Sustainable Universities, 2013–2017
- Member of a scientific advisory board, Sustainable Universities Board of Delegates, 2011–2015
- Member of commission, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek ZHB - Bibliothekskommission, 2012–2015
- Bologna-Experte, Rektorenkonferenz der Schweizer Universitäten CRUS, 2011–2014
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