Staff directory

Scientific Directorate:

• Prof. Dr. Lars Krogmann

Commercial Directorate:

• currently vacant

Science Management:

• Dr. Marian Lechner (currently on leave)

Research Manager:

• M.Sc. Marina Moser

Third Party Funding:

• Dr. Joachim Holstein

Directorate Assistant:

• Bettina Allgaier

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. Stefan Abrahamczyk – Central European vascular plant flora
• 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. Ursula Eberhardt – Fungi
• M.Sc. Viktoria Ferenc – Postdoc "Biogeography/Macroecology"
• Dr. Thomas Kiebacher – Junior Research Group Leader "Bryophytes"
• Dr. Pierre Liancourt – Junior Research Group Leader "Functional Plant Ecology"

Molecular lab:

• Dipl.-Biol. Anne-Kristin Schilling – currently on leave
• Clara Dehlinger (stand-in Ms. Schilling)

Preparation / Technical Assistance:

• Dipl.-Chemikerin Ulrike Bildstein – Flowering plants, floristic mapping
• Dipl. Biol. Christiane Dalitz
• Martin Heklau
• Diana Körner
• Dipl.-Biol. Cornelia Krause – Fern- and flowering plants
• Dipl.-Biol. Anette Rosenbauer

Interim head of Department:

• Dr. Hossein Rajaei – Lepidoptera

Deputy head of Department:

• currently vacant

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:

• M.Sc. Jessica Awad – PhD student – Hymenoptera – GBOL III
• M.Sc. Roy Canty – PhD student – Diptera – GBOL III
• M.Sc. Valerio Caruso – PhD student – Diptera – GBOL III
• Dr. Tobias Frenzel – Postdoc – Insect decline
• Dr. Michael Haas – Coordinator GBOL III
• Dr. Joachim Holstein – Araneae, Saltatoria 
• Dr. Petr Janšta – Postdoc Hymenoptera 
• M.Sc. Vangelis Mizerakis – PhD student – Coleoptera
• M.Sc. Marina Moser – PhD student – Hymenoptera – GBOL III
• M.Sc. Sajad Noori – PhD student – Lepidoptera
• Dr. Michael C. Orr – Junior Research Group Leader "Insect-Plant-Interactions"
• M.Sc. Pauline Pfeiffer – PhD student – Hymenoptera – HIGH LIFE
• M.Sc. Maura Renninger – PhD student – Insect decline
• M.Sc. Jonah Ulmer – PhD student – Hymenoptera
• M.Sc. Cristina Vasilița – Coordinator GBOL III
• M.Sc. Dominic Wanke – PhD student – Lepidoptera
• Dipl.-Biol. Ingo Wendt – Coordinator Flying insect monitoring

Molecular lab:

• Dipl.-Biol. Anne-Kristin Schilling – currently on leave
• Clara Dehlinger (stand-in Ms. Schilling)

Preparation / Technical Assistance:

• Daniel Bartsch – Collection Lepidoptera
• Aron Bellersheim – Collection Coleoptera
• M.Sc. Sonia Bigalk – Flying insect monitoring
• Dr. Lucas Camargos – GBOL III
• 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. Luisa Timm – DNA barcoding of artificial nesting aids

Honorary Office:

• Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller – Coleoptera
• Dr. Helmut Schmalfuss – Isopoda 
• Dr. Hans-Peter Tschorsnig – Diptera

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
• M.Sc. Samuel Cooper – PhD student – Pachycormid fish
• Dr. Eudald Mujal Grané – Junior Research Group Leader "fossillagerstaetten"
• Dipl.-Geol. Olaf Höltke – PhD student – Miocene Gastropods
• M.Sc. Feiko Miedema  – PhD student
• Dr. Cristina Rebelo – Coralline algae of the Azores
• M.Sc. Joep Schaeffer – PhD student – Plateosaurids
• Dr. Daniel Schwarz – PostDoc – Early tetrapods
• Dr. Gabriela Sobral – PostDoc – Triassic reptiles (currently on leave)
• Dr. Stephan Spiekman – PostDoc – Triassic reptiles

Preparation / Technical Assistance:

• Martina Battenstein
• Matthias Boller
• Cristina Gascó Martín
• Martin Kapitzke
• Matthias Krause
• Achim Lehmkuhl
• Olav Maaß
• Andreas Radecker
• Isabell Rosin
• Christoph Wimmer-Pfeil

Honorary Office:

• Dr. Gert Bloos – Jurassic-Subcommission, Lias-Ammonites
• Dr. Ronald Böttcher – Mesozoic fishes, cenozoic basal vertebrates 
• Dr. Gerd Dietl – Jurassic-Subcommission, Dogger-Stratigraphy, Nusplingen-Project
• Prof. Dr. Johanna Eder – Flora and vegetation development in the Cenozoic 
• Dr. Elmar P. J. Heizmann – Steinheim Meteorkrater Museum, Geopark Schwäbische Alb, Paleogene and Neogene Mammals
• Dr. Sandra I. Kaiser – Biostratigraphy, Palaeoclimate, D/C Boundary, Triassic
• Thomas Rathgeber – Collection of fossil mammals, Quaternary exhibition
• Dipl.-Min. Franz Xaver Schmidt – Mineral collection
• Dr. Max Urlichs – Triassic Cephalopods, Triassic and Jurassic Ostracods
• Dr. Reinhard Ziegler – Fossil mammals

Head of Department:

• Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy

Deputy head of Department:

• Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology

Curators:

• Dr. Ronald Fricke – Ichthyology
• PD Dr. Alexander Kupfer – Herpetology
• Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy
• Dr. Ira Richling – Malacology
• Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology

Research associates:

• Dr. Niloofar Alaei Kakhki – Postdoc "Population genetics and molecular biogeography"
• Dr. Clara Arranz – LAK BW coordinator (stand-in N. Hammerschmidt)
• Dipl.-Biol. Holger Haag – Ornithology
• Dr. Laura Hagemann – Postdoc – Mammalia
• Dipl.-Biol. Nadine Hammerschmidt – LAK BW coordinator (currently on leave)
• Dipl.-Biol. Cornelia Krause – Malacology
• Dr. Ricardo Pereira – Junior Research Group Leader "Population genetics and molecular biogeography"
• M.Sc. Nina Tombers – Doctoral student – Malacology

Molecular lab:

• Dipl.-Biol. Anne-Kristin Schilling – temporarily out of office
• Clara Dehlinger (stand-in Ms. Schilling)

Preparation / Technical Assistance:

• Dagmar Beermann
• Joseph Kälberer
• Carsten Leidenroth
• Steffen Lässle
• Anja Narozny
• M.Sc. Markus Weinhardt
• Christiane Zeitler

Interim head of Department:

• Tobias Wilhelm

Deputy head of Department:

• currently vacant

Education:

• Semjon Krassovitski
• Dr. Sebastian Lotzkat
• Dr. Anne Schubert

Marketing:

• Tobias Wilhelm

Press:

• Meike Rech

Digital Communication:

• Lilian Lemmerhofer

Library:

• Tatjana Marzen
• Sabine Petri
• Stefanie Schwarz

Scientific trainees:

• Lena Grabherr
• Rebecca Pflug
• Tatjana Tull
• Robin Witt

Head of Department:

• Julia Bergener

Deputy head of Department:

• Saskia Ehrnsperger

Graphics:

• Reimund Baumann
• Daniel Zinser

Head of Department:

• Dr. Joachim Holstein

Deputy head of Department:

• Dr. Carlos Monje

IT/Media:

• Dieter Hagmann 
• Dr. Angela Jandl 

Biodiversity informatics:

• Dipl.-Ing. Anton Link 
• Dipl.-Biol. Wiebke Walbaum

IT-Projectmanagement:

• B.Sc. Sven Hirth

Head of Deparment:

• currently vacant

Administration:

• Lucia Banholzer
• Anja Dehner
• Maren Neubauer
• Rainer Postruschnigg
• Ute Ruhland
• Angelika Schäfer
• Daniela Scherer

Central services:

• Xhafer Salihu (Head of Department)
• Tuema Alarab
• Martina Battenstein
• Adem Bulic
• Vjekoslav Matkovic
• Sandra Romano