Albrecht Manegold
Albrecht Manegold (* 1973 in Mannheim ) is a German ornithologist and paleontologist . He worked as a research assistant in the Terrestrial Paleontology Department at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum Frankfurt and has been the curator for the vertebrate animal collections of the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe since March 2014. His research focus is on the evolution of passerines (passeriformes) and woodpeckers (piciformes). In this area Manegold provided, among other contributions by the description of several fossil taxa , such as the Tree Creeper relatives Certhiops rummeli or woodpecker Australopicus nelsonmandelai .
biography
Albrecht Manegold was born in Mannheim in 1973. He studied biology at the Free University (FU) Berlin and received his doctorate in 2005 with a thesis on the phylogeny and evolution of the "Racken", woodpecker and passerine birds ("Coraciiformes", Piciformes and Passeriformes: Aves) under Professor Walter Sudhaus . He had previously been a lecturer at the FU and, in parallel, worked with Gerald Mayr in the ornithology section of the Senckenberg Research Institute. The work of Manegold and Mayr was based primarily on excavations in the German Messel mine and dealt with the development of the early passerine birds and other lines of the " higher land birds ". Since 2009 Manegold has also been researching the Langebaanweg fossil deposit in South Africa .
Awards
- 2007: Bernhard Rensch Prize of the Society for Biological Systematics for his dissertation
- 2008: Maria Koepcke Prize of the German Ornithologists Society for Manegold's large group system of birds based on morphological characteristics.
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literature
- Franz Bairlein: Awards 2008 . In: Vogelwarte 46 (3), pp. 377–378.
Web links
- State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe: [1] . Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution: Newsletter nº 19, October 2005. (PDF; 190 kB) Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, www2.nrm.de, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ^ German National Library 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- ^ State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe 2018. Retrieved on October 4, 2018.
- ↑ Bairlein 2012, p. 378.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manegold, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ornithologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |