Staff directory
Directorate
Biodiversity Monitoring
Head of Department:
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Pereira – Hybridization and speciation
Research associates:
- Dr. Niloofar Alaei Kakhki – Bioinformatician and data analytics
- M.Sc. Lucas Freitas – Doctoral student – Invasive species
- M.Sc. Louis Hausner – Doctoral student – Hybrid zone dynamics
- M.Sc. Tobias Bauer
- PhD Chyi Yin Gwee – Postdoc
- M.Sc. Amelie Höcherl – Scientific Co-Curation and Contribution to the TAPINOMA Project
Molecular lab:
- M.Sc. Clara Engler – Lab manager
Preparation / Technical Assistance:
- M.Sc. Jillian Campbell – Genomic methods for biodiversity
Botany
Head of Department:
- PD Dr. Mike Thiv – Fern- and flowering plants (Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae)
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Holger Thüs – Fungi (incl. lichenised taxa), horn-, livermosses and Bryophyta, Algae
Curators:
- PD Dr. Mike Thiv – Fern- and flowering plants (Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae)
- Dr. Holger Thüs – Fungi (incl. lichenised taxa), horn-, livermosses and Bryophyta, Algae
Research associates:
- Dr. Viktoria Ferenc – Postdoc – "Biogeography / Macroecology"
- M.Sc. Vera Joedecke – Doctoral student – "Evergreen Neophytes"
- Dr. Thomas Kiebacher – Junior Research Group Leader – "Diversity Change and Evolution of Bryophytes"
- Dr. Pierre Liancourt – Junior Research Group Leader –"Functional Plant Ecology"
- Dr. Ursula Eberhardt – Postdoc – "FunDive"
- M.Sc. Nopparat Anantaprayoon – Doctoral student
- M.Sc. Louis Rigaud – Doctoral student – Phylogeography Schistidium
- Dipl.-Biol. Cornelia Krause – Technical coordination of floristic mapping
- M.Sc. Elisabeth Zokov – Doctoral student – DFG Project WIND
- M.Sc. Anna Kartasheva – Doctoral student – "Airborne eDNA - Monitoring Multi-Taxon Diversity"
- Dipl.-Linguistics Veronika Boyko – Project Manager – Digital Citizen Science Project
- Dr. Martha Kandziora – Postdoc
Preparation / Technical Assistance:
- Dipl.-Chemikerin Ulrike Bildstein – Flowering plants, floristic mapping
- Dipl. Biol. Christiane Dalitz
- Martin Heklau
- Diana Körner
- Dipl.-Biol. Anette Rosenbauer
- Isaac Tiselius – Diversity Change and Evolution of Bryophytes
Fellowship / scholarship holders:
- Undine Schöllkopf – KomBioTa scholarship holder
- Benoit Pichon – KomBioTa scholarship holder
Honorary Office:
Entomology
Head of Department:
- Dr. Hossein Rajaei – Lepidoptera
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Arnaud Faille – Coleoptera
Curators:
- Dr. Arnaud Faille – Coleoptera
- Prof. Dr. Lars Krogmann – Hymenoptera
- Dr. Hossein Rajaei – Lepidoptera
- Dr. Arnold H. Staniczek – Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Trichoptera (Aquatic Entomology)
- Dr. Daniel Whitmore – Diptera
Research associates:
- Dr. Joachim Holstein – Araneae, Saltatoria
- Dr. Michael C. Orr – Junior Research Group Leader "Insect-Plant-Interactions"
- B.Sc. Benedict Stocker – PhD student – Ephemeroptera
- Dipl.-Biol. Ingo Wendt – Coordinator Flying insect monitoring
- Dr. Arianny Storari – Postdoc – Prosopistomatoidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera)
- M.Sc. Chiara Obst
- M.Sc. Cristina Lupaşcu-Vasilița – TrenDiv
Preparation / Technical Assistance:
- Daniel Bartsch – Collection Lepidoptera
- Aron Bellersheim – Collection Coleoptera
- M.Sc. Sonia Bigalk – Flying insect monitoring
- M.Sc. Raffaele Gamba – Flying insect monitoring
- Dr. Sebastian Görn – Flying insect monitoring
- Susanne Leidenroth – Collection Diptera
- Gabriele Miksch – Collection Diptera
- Milan Pallmann – Collection Trichoptera
- Tanja Schweizer, geb. Kothe – Collection Hymenoptera
- M.Sc. Maria Werner – Insect-Plant-Interactions
- Jan Pfister – Collection Lepidoptera
Federal Voluntary Service:
Fellowship / Scholarship holders:
- M.Ed. Simon Müller
- Dr. Alex Gumovsky – Postdoc / Stipendiat Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
- B.Sc. Maximilian Gerhold
- M.Sc. Robert Zimmermann
- B.Sc. Anna Hauprich
- M.Sc. Ana-Maria Chiosa – Scholarship University of Hohenheim
- Dr. Tácio Duarte
Honorary Office:
- Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller – Coleoptera
- Dr. Helmut Schmalfuss – Isopoda
- Ulrich Schmid – Diptera
- Dr. Hans-Peter Tschorsnig – Diptera
- M.Sc. Michael Csader
- Dr. Dominic Wanke
Paleontology
Head of Department:
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch – Amphibia, Reptilia
Deputy head of Department:
- PD Dr. Michael W. Rasser – Invertebrates (Cenozoic) and contact for Invertebrates (Paleozoic and Triassic) and Sedimentary rocks
Curators:
- Dr. Eli Amson – Fossil mammals
- Dr. Erin Maxwell – Fossil aquatic vertebrates
- PD Dr. Anita Roth-Nebelsick – Fossil plants
- PD Dr. Michael W. Rasser – Invertebrates (Cenozoic) and contact for Invertebrates (Paleozoic and Triassic) and Sedimentary rocks
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch – Amphibia, Reptilia
- Dr. Günter Schweigert – Invertebrates (Jurassic and Cretaceous) and contact for Microfossils
Research associates:
- Dr. Orla Bath Enright – Postdoc Sedimentology – "fossillagerstaetten"
- Dr. Samuel Cooper – Postdoc – Pachycormid fish
- Dr. Quentin Martinez – Postdoc – DESY KI-Morph
- Dr. Eudald Mujal Grané – Junior Research Group Leader – "fossillagerstaetten"
- Dr. Joep Schaeffer – Research Associate – "Trossinger plateosaurids"
- Dr. Daniel Schwarz – Postdoc – Early tetrapods
- Dr. Stephan Spiekman – Emmy Noether Research Group Leader "Turtle Origins"
- Dr. Michaela Johnson – Postdoc – Palaeontology
- Dr. Nicole Klein – Postdoc
- Dr. Maryam Boroomandi – Project coordination – "The Evolution of Life Histories in Early Tetrapods"
- M.Sc. Morgan Proust – PhD – Project "The Evolution of Life Histories in Early Tetrapods"
- B.Sc. Klara Zöllner – Project collaboration – "Ontogeny, skeleton chronology and characteristics of life histories in temnospondyls"
- Dr. Dorota Konietzko-Meier – Scientific project collaboration – "Bone histology, body size and habitats of temnospondyls"
- Dr. Raphael Moreno – Postdoc – Project "The Evolution of Life Histories in Early Tetrapods"
- M.Ed. Pia-Marie Füchtner – PhD – Emmy Noether Project "Turtle Origins"
Preparation / Technical Assistance:
- Martina Battenstein
- Matthias Boller
- Lucrezia Ferrari
- Cristina Gascó Martín
- Matthias Krause
- Achim Lehmkuhl
- Andreas Radecker
- Isabell Rosin
- Christoph Wimmer-Pfeil
- Tabea Platzer
- Michel Rabe
Honorary Office:
Zoology
Head of Department:
- PD Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology
Curators:
- PD Dr. Alexander Kupfer – Herpetology
- PD Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy
- Dr. Ira Richling – Malacology
- Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology
Research associates:
- M.Sc. Ilse Barraza Soltero – Doctoral student – Herpetology
- Dipl.-Biol. Holger Haag – Ornithology
- Dipl.-Biol. Nadine Hammerschmidt – LAK BW coordinator
- M.Sc. Nina Tombers – Research Associate – Malacology
- Dr. Sajad Noori – Postdoc – Herpetology / Malacology
- Dr. Majid Moradmand – Junior Research Group Leader – Genetics / Ornithology
- Dr. Godwin Kornes – Research Associate – Provenance Research
- M.Sc. Margaret Eppli – Research Associate – Monitoring of amphibian diseases in Baden-Württemberg
Preparation / Technical Assistance:
- Dagmar Beermann
- Joseph Kälberer
- Steffen Lässle
- M.Sc. Markus Weinhardt
- Christiane Zeitler
- Dominik Farkas
- Malva Jumeau
Federal Voluntary Service:
Honorary Office:
- Dr. Ronald Fricke – Ichthyology
- Carsten Leidenroth
- Flora Liebig
Communication
Head of Department (Co-lead):
Deputy head of Department:
Exhibition Curation:
Education:
Digital Communication:
Content Creation:
Marketing and PR:
Press:
Library:
Service and Booking Helpline:
Federal Voluntary Service and Voluntary Social Year in Culture and Education:
Exhibitions, szenography and graphic design
Head of Department:
Deputy head of Department:
Exhibition and media design:
IT infrastructure and biodiversity informatics
Head of Department:
Deputy head of Department:
IT / Media:
Biodiversity informatics:
IT-Services / network administration:
Administration
Head of Administration:
Deputy head of Administration:
Accounting:
Occupational Safety, Sustainability and Organization:
Personnel:
Central Services:
Visitor Services:
Facility Management
Head of Facility Management:
In-house technical services:
- Tuema Alarab
- Martina Battenstein
- Adem Bulic
- Vjekoslav Matkovic
- Sandra Romano
- Mefailj Rami