Education
1990
Dr. phil. University of Zurich
1984
Diploma in Palaeontology University of Zurich
1978 – 1984
Studied biology at the University of Zurich
1974 – 1978
Baden Cantonal School
1970 – 1974
High school in Brugg
Further Education
Post-Doc at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Career
Since 2001
Curator Palaeontology at Natural History Musem Basel
1995 – 2001
Biology teacher in different grammar schools
1993 – 1995
Post-Doc
1981 – 1993
Assistant at Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich
Publications
Etter, W. (1994). Palökologie: eine methodische Einführung. Basel, Birkhäuser.
Bottjer, D. J., Etter, W., Hagadorn, J. W. & Tang, C. M. (2002). Exceptional Fossil Preservation. New York, Columbia University Press.
Etter, W. (2015). Patterns of Diversification and Extinction. In Henke, W. & Tattersall, I. (eds.): Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2nd edition, pp. 351–415. Heidelberg, Springer.
Etter, W. (2015). Early ideas about cephalopods. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 134: 177–186.
Etter, W. (2016). Conrad Gessner als Paläontologe. In Leu, U. B. & Ruoss, M. (Eds.): Facetten eines Universums: Conrad Gessner 1516–2016, S. 175–184.
Projects and Museum Activities
2007 – 2008
Project lead Special Exhibition 'Deep Sea'
2003
Project lead Special Exhibitions 'Dinosaurs'
Supervision and rearrangement of the collection of fossil plants and invertebrates