Department heads

Prof. Dr Matthias Glaubrecht
Department: Animal Biodiversity
Main focus: Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, History of Science (Biology), Museum of Natural History, Natural History Collections, Museum Godeffroy, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alexander von Humboldt, Adelbert von Chamisso, Karl August Möbius, Maximilian Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied, Mollusca (molluscs), Gastropoda (gastropods), Zoological Museum, Anthropocene, Evolutioneum, (bio)systematics, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Sulawesi, Australia

Daniel Bein
Department: Exhibition and Science Education
Main focus: Science communication, natural history, museums, museum education, exhibitions, intercultural communication (human / nature)

Dr. Danilo Harms
Department: Arachnology
Main focus: Arachnids, millipedes, arthropods, evolutionary biology, phylogeny and phylogeography, systematics, taxonomy, conservation biology

Dr. Martin Husemann
Department: Entomology
Main focus: Entomology, species extinction, new species, museum research, grasshoppers, phylogeny, bees

Prof. Dr. Alexander Haas
Department: Herpetology
Main focus: Amphibians, reptiles, zoology, herpetology, evolution, taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, systematics

Dr. Jakob Hallermann
Department: Herpetology
Main focus: Zoology, herpetology, systematics, distribution, reptiles, snakes, lizards, amphibians

Prof. Dr. Ralf Thiel
Department: Ichthyology
Main focus: Fishes, fish taxonomy, fish systematics, marine biodiversity, aquatic ecology, estuarine ecology

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Department: Malacology
Main focus: Snails, molluscs, biogeography, speciation

Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Kaiser
Department: Mammalogy and Palaeoanthropology
Main focus: Mammals / Mammalogy, functional ecometry and 3D morphometry, masticatory apparatus of ungulates, primates and humans, feeding behaviour of mammals, habitats of prehistoric and early humans

Prof. Dr. Jochen Schlüter
Department: Mineralogy
Main focus: Special mineralogy, gemmology, gemstones, authenticity expertises, meteorite science

Dr. Ulrich Kotthoff
Department: Palaeontology
Main focus: Palaeontology, palaeoclimate research, palynology, palaeoentomology, fossils, dinosaurs, insects, extinct plants, climate of the past, earth history, pollen

Dr. Dieter Thomas Tietze
Department: Ornithology
Main focus: Birds, zoology, ornithology, evolution, taxonomy, systematics, speciation, bioacoustics, biogeography, genomics,
trait evolution, ecomorphology, phylogenetics, population ecology and genetics, urban ecology

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
Department: Invertebrates
Main focus: Invertebrates, taxonomy, systematics, morphology