Rate My Professor Leonardo Kerber

Leonardo Kerber is a vertebrate paleontologist and Coordinator of the Centro de Apoio à Pesquisa Paleontológica da Quarta Colônia (CAPPA) at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). He holds a Licentiate and Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, 2008), a Master’s degree in Geosciences from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, 2011), and a Doctorate in Sciences from the same program at UFRGS (2014). He completed postdoctoral research at the Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul (2014–2015) and at the University of Zurich (early 2016).

Kerber’s research centers on patterns of morphological variation in extinct species, the fossil record, taxonomy and systematics, and endocranial morphology and its evolutionary implications, with a primary focus on extinct South American mammals and non-mammaliaform cynodonts. He has served as Coordinator of CAPPA/UFSM since 2018 and is an Associate Editor of The Anatomical Record. In 2025, he received a Humboldt Foundation fellowship for research in Germany. His work contributes to understanding the evolutionary history of Triassic vertebrates from Brazil.