Gert Wörheide
Gert Wörheide is a German marine biologist who works mainly on marine invertebrates. He earned his doctorate in geobiology from Georg-August-Universität, following this with a post-doctorate at Queensland Museum, where he worked with John Hooper on sponges, a collaboration which continues.
Following his postdoctorate in Queensland, Wörheide returned to Germany to become a junior professor in molecular geobiology at Georg-August-Universität, and in October 2008 was appointed Chair of Geobiology & Paleontology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, where he continues to work on evolution and genomics, and all things pertaining to marine invertebrates. His most cited paper with 559 citations is "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough".