Reinhold Leinfelder is presently based in Berlin (Humboldt University, 2006–12, Freie Universität Berlin since 2012), where he teaches and researches historical geology, sedimentary geology, invertebrate paleontology, geobiology, and science communication. His two special foci are the evolution, ecology, threats, and protection of coral reefs and oceans; and science communication and the interaction of culture and nature. He also is principal investigator on “The Anthropocene Kitchen” project at the Cluster of Excellence “Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung” at Humboldt University. Further institutional associations include natural history collections and museums. He has been director, then general director, of the Bavarian Natural History State Collections, and, from 2005 to 2010, he refurbished collections, research networks, exhibitions, and education at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin as the institution’s general director. Reinhold is a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Science and of the Advisory Council on Nature Conservation of the State of Berlin. He was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2008 to early 2013. His current research interests focus on the concept of the Anthropocene, which combines natural, social, and cultural sciences, and the humanities to study the present state and future development of the Earth. He is an affiliated Carson Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), and assisted with the conceptualization and planning of the joint RCC-Deutsches Museum exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands(2014).