Scientific Directorate:
Commercial Directorate:
Science Management:
Research Management:
Coordination:
- M.Sc. Amelie Höcherl – Coordination TETTRIs
Staff directory
Directorate
Biodiversity Monitoring
Head of Department:
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
Molecular lab:
- M.Sc. Clara Dehlinger – 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:
- M.Sc. Rafael de Oliveira – Doctoral student "Oligolectic pollination partners"
- 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. Ruben De Lange – Postdoc "FunDive - Monitoring Fungal Diversity for Nature Conservation"
- Dr. Ursula Eberhardt – Postdoc "FunDive"
- M.Sc. Nopparat Anantaprayoon – Doctoral student
- M.Sc. Louis Rigaud – Doctoral student – Phylogeography Schistidium
- M.Sc. Eva Vogelgesang – Project manager – Digital Citizen-Science-Project
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
- Isaac Tiselius – Diversity Change and Evolution of Bryophytes
Fellowship & scholarship holders:
- Undine Schöllkopf – KomBioTa scholarship holder
- Ashley Lawson – DAAD scholarship holder
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:
- M.Sc. Roy Canty – PhD student – Diptera – GBOL III
- M.Sc. Michael Csader – PhD student – Coleoptera – DarCo
- Dr. Tobias Frenzel – Postdoc – Insect decline
- Dr. Maura Haas-Renninger – Postdoc – Scientific researcher – Interim curator Hymenoptera
- Dr. Joachim Holstein – Araneae, Saltatoria
- M.Sc. Marina Moser – PhD student – Hymenoptera – GBOL III
- 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. Amelie Höcherl – Hymenoptera – GBOL III
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 – Digitization of bees
Fellowship & scholarship holders:
- M.Sc. Cristina Vasilița
- M.Ed. Simon Müller
- Dr. Oleksii Vasil'evich Bidzilia – Postdoc / Stipendiat Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
- Dr. Roman Godunko – Alumni-Stipendiat Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
- Dr. Alex Gumovsky – Postdoc / Stipendiat Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
- B.Sc. Yoshua J. Titus – Project "The Potential Distribution of Exotic Bee Xylocopa pubescens in Europe"
- B.Sc. Maximilian Gerhold – Project "The Potential Distribution of Exotic Bee Xylocopa pubescens in Europe"
Honorary Office:
- Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller – Coleoptera
- Dr. Helmut Schmalfuss – Isopoda
- Ulrich Schmid – Diptera
- Dr. Hans-Peter Tschorsnig – Diptera
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
- M.Sc. Raphael Moreno – Scientific Researcher / Exhibition preparation – GLA "Climate disaster and the rise of dinosaurs"
- Dr. Eudald Mujal Grané – Junior Research Group Leader "fossillagerstaetten"
- Dipl.-Geol. Olaf Höltke – PhD student – Miocene Gastropods
- Dr. Cristina Rebelo – Coralline algae of the Azores
- M.Sc. Joep Schaeffer – Scientific Researcher / Exhibition preparation – GLA "Climate disaster and the rise of dinosaurs"
- Dr. Daniel Schwarz – Postdoc – Early tetrapods
- Dr. Gabriela Sobral – Postdoc – Triassic reptiles
- Dr. Stephan Spiekman – Postdoc – Triassic reptiles
- Dr. Michaela Johnson – Postdoc – Palaeontology
- Dr. Sanjukta Chakravorti – Postdoc – Project "Comparison of the tetrapod faunas through the Triassic/ Comparison of the faunas of Gondwana with Laurussia"
- 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. Hsuan Hung – Project collaboration – "Bone histology, body size and habitats of temnospondyls"
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
Fellowship & scholarship holders:
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
Zoology
Head of Department:
- PD Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology
Curators:
- Dr. Ronald Fricke – Ichthyology
- 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
- Dipl.-Biol. Cornelia Krause – Malacology
- M.Sc. Nina Tombers – Doctoral student – Malacology
- Dr. Sajad Noori – Postdoc – Herpetology/Malacology
Preparation / Technical Assistance:
- Dagmar Beermann
- Joseph Kälberer
- Steffen Lässle
- Giuseppe Lo Cacciato
- M.Sc. Markus Weinhardt
- Christiane Zeitler
- Dominik Farkas
Voluntary Service
Communication
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Deputy head of Department:
Education:
Marketing and PR:
Press:
Digital Communication:
Library:
Scientific trainees:
Exhibitions, szenography and graphic design
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Deputy head of Department:
Graphics:
IT infrastructure and biodiversity informatics
Head of Department:
Deputy head of Department:
IT/Media:
Biodiversity informatics:
IT-Services, network administration:
Administration
Head of Administration:
Accounting and Human Resources:
Facility Management
Head of Facility Management:
In-house technical services:
- Tuema Alarab
- Martina Battenstein
- Adem Bulic
- Vjekoslav Matkovic
- Sandra Romano