Dr. Gerhard Steiner is a professor of Integrative Zoology at the University of Vienna in Austria. Much of his research has focused on the molluscan bivalve family Chamidae.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Steiner has published the following:

Campbell, M. R., G. Steiner, L. D. Campbell, and H. Dreyer. 2004. Recent Chamidae (Bivalvia) from the western Atlantic Ocean. Pp. 381–415 in R. Bieler and P. M. Mikkelsen, eds. Bivalve Studies in the Florida Keys, Proceedings of the International Marine Bivalve Workshop, Long Key, Florida, July 2002. Malacologia 46(2).

Steiner, G., and A. R. Kabat. 2004. Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema 26 (4): 549–720."