Alexander Haas (biologist)
Alexander Haas (* 1964 in Heilbronn ) is a German biologist and has been a professor at the University of Hamburg since 2003 .
Alexander Haas is head of the Herpetology Section at the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg . The call to Hamburg was preceded by studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , one year at the University of California, Berkeley (California) and nine years at the University of Jena .
Together with his colleague Professor Indraneil Das from Malaysia , Haas has carried out an inventory of frog species and tadpoles in the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo since 2004 . The research of the project Inventory and Biodiversity of the Frog Fauna of East Malaysia with emphasis on their larval forms was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation .
In relation to biodiversity protection, he advocates basic taxonomic work, as this would be necessary for a rapid assessment of diversity.
Web links
- Animal inventory: gladly praised, reluctantly encouraged. Interview in Die Zeit , 2009
- Herpetology Department ( Memento from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at the Zoological Museum Hamburg
- List of publications at Researchgate
- Frogs of Borneo. Haas and Das project website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gisela Schütte: Herpetology: From the fascination of the frogs. Welt online, September 14, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haas, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |