Staff directory
Directorate
Botany
Head of Department:
- PD Dr. Mike Thiv – Fern- and flowering plants (Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae)
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Arno Wörz – Fern- and flowering plants (Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae)
Curators:
- PD Dr. Mike Thiv – Fern- and flowering plants (Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae)
- Dr. Holger Thüs – Fungi (incl. lichenised taxa), horn-, livermosses and Bryophyta, Algae
- Dr. Arno Wörz – Fern- and flowering plants (Pteridophyta and Phanerogamae)
Research associates:
- Dr. Ursula Eberhardt – Fungi
- M.Sc. Johanna Klüßendorf – PhD student – Fungi incl. lichenised taxa
- Dipl.-Biol. Cornelia Krause – Fern- and flowering plants
- Dr. Nicole Schütz – Flowering plants, fungi
- Dipl. Biol. Christina Schüßler – Flowering plants
- Dipl.-Biol. Monika Voggesberger – Flowering plants, floristic mapping
Molecular lab:
- Dipl.-Biol. Anne-Kristin Schilling – temporary out of office
- Sonja Dumendiak (stand-in Ms. Schilling)
Preparation:
Entomology
Head of Department:
- Prof. Dr. Lars Krogmann – Hymenoptera
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Hossein Rajaei – Lepidoptera
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:
- Sonia Bigalk - Hymenoptera
- Raffaele Gamba – Aquatic Entomology
- Dipl.-Biol. Alexander Grau – Aquatic Entomology
- MSc. Michael Haas – Hymenoptera
- Andreas Haselböck – Hymenoptera
- Dr. Roman Hodunko – Aquatic Entomology
- Dr. Joachim Holstein – Araneae, Saltatoria
- Marina Moser – student
- Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller – Honorary Office – Coleoptera
- Dr. Helmut Schmalfuss – Honorary Office – Isopoda
- Dr. Hans-Peter Tschorsnig – Honorary Office – Diptera
- Jonah Ulmer – PhD student – Hymenoptera
- Dominic Wanke – PhD student – Lepidoptera
- Dipl.-Biol. Ingo Wendt – Chelicerata
Molecular lab:
- Dipl.-Biol. Anne-Kristin Schilling – temporary out of office
- Sonja Dumendiak (stand-in Ms. Schilling)
Preparation:
Paleontology
Head of Department:
- PD 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. 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
- PD Dr. Rainer Schoch – Amphibia, Reptilia
- Dipl.-Min. Franz Xaver Schmidt (20%) – Minerals / Magmatic rocks
- Dr. Günter Schweigert – Invertebrates (Jurassic and Cretaceous) and contact for Microfossils
Research associates:
- Dr. Anna Ostendorf (geb. Beike) – Paleobotany/Botany Mosses (Bryophyta)
- Dr. Gert Bloos – Honorary Office – Jurassic-Subcommission, Lias-Ammonites
- Dr. Ronald Böttcher – Honorary Office – Mesozoic fishes, cenozoic basal vertebrates
- Dr. Gerd Dietl – Honorary Office – Jurassic-Subcommission, Dogger-Stratigraphy, Nusplingen-Project
- Prof. Dr. Johanna Eder – Director – Flora and vegetation development in the Cenozoic
- Dr. Elmar P. J. Heizmann – Honorary Office – Steinheim Meteorkrater Museum, Geopark Schwäbische Alb, Paleogene and Neogene Mammals
- Dr. Sandra I. Kaiser – Biostratigraphy, Palaeoclimate, D/C Boundary, Triassic
- Dr. Eudald Mujal Grané – PostDoc – Triassic vertebrate fossillagerstaetten
- Dipl.-Geol. Olaf Höltke – PhD student – Miocene Gastropods
- M.Sc. Feiko Miedema – PhD student
- Thomas Rathgeber – Honorary Office – Collection of fossil mammals, Quaternary exhibition
- Dr. Cristina Rebelo – Coralline algae of the Azores
- Dr. Dieter Seegis – Fossillagerstaetten
- Dr. Gabriela Sobral – PostDoc – Triassic reptiles
- Dr. Christopher Traiser – PostDoc – database MORPHYLL
- Dr. Max Urlichs – Honorary Office – Triassic Cephalopods, Triassic and Jurassic Ostracods
- Dr. Manfred Warth – Honorary Office – Archive
- M.Sc. Janina Wypich – PhD student
- Dr. Reinhard Ziegler – Honorary Office – Fossil mammals
Preparation:
Zoology
Head of Department:
- Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy
Deputy head of Department:
- Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology
Curators:
- Dr. Ronald Fricke – Ichthyology (temporary out of office)
- PD Dr. Alexander Kupfer – Herpetology
- Dr. Stefan Merker – Mammalogy
- Dr. Ira Richling – Malacology
- Dr. Friederike Woog – Ornithology
Research associates:
- Dominik Frank – Metadata registration Malacology
- Dipl.-Biol. Holger Haag – project wild birds and avian influenza
- Dipl.-Biol. Nadine Hammerschmidt – Herpetology – temporary out of office
- Dipl.Biol. Dietger Hausenblas – Red List Mollusca D
- Dipl.-Biol. Cornelia Krause – Honorary Office – Unionids of Baden-Württembergs
- M.Sc. Sabrina Mai – PhD – Ornithology
- M.Sc. Raphael Moreno – Metadata registration Malacology
- M.Sc. Peter Pogoda – Research Associate Herpetology
- Dr. Wolfgang Rähle – Honorary Office – died 2019, Malacology
- Dr. Brigitte Rozynek – Red List Mollusca D
Molecular lab:
- Dipl.-Biol. Anne-Kristin Schilling – temporary out of office
- Sonja Dumendiak (stand-in Ms. Schilling)
Preparation:
- Dagmar Beermann
- Carsten Leidenroth
- Steffen Lässle
- Louisa Müller
- M.Sc. Markus Weinhardt
- Christiane Zeitler
Federal voluntary service:
- Theresa Koch
Communication
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Museum education:
Marketing:
Press:
Archive:
Library:
Scientific trainees:
Stabsstelle Ausstellungen, Szenografie und Grafikdesign
Head of Department:
Deputy head of Department:
Graphics:
Exhibition:
Stabsstelle IT-Infrastruktur und Biodiversitätsinformatik
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Deputy head of Department:
IT/Media:
Biodiversity informatics:
Central services / Administration
Head of Deparment:
Administration:
- Lucia Banholzer
- Anja Dehner
- Maren Neubauer
- Rainer Postruschnigg
- Ute Ruhland
- Angelika Schäfer
- Daniela Scherer
Central services:
- Agron Aslanovik (Head of Department)
- Martina Battenstein
- Adem Bulic
- Vjekoslav Matkovic
- Sandra Romano
- Xhafer Salihu