Kai Frölich

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Kai Frölich (born June 21, 1960 in Neumünster ) is a German biologist , veterinarian and university professor .

Life

The doctor's son passed his high school diploma in 1979 at the Louisenlund Foundation and then studied biology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel until the spring of 1982 , then switched to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he continued his studies with a focus on zoology  and obtained his diploma in spring 1985. Frölich then completed a second degree in veterinary medicine, which he completed from 1985 to 1990 at the Free University of Berlin . In September 1990 he received his license to practice medicine .

Frolich was from the summer of 1992 as a researcher at to December 2006 Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Research Association Berlin worked, from 1997 to the end of 2006 he had there held the head of the research group "Wildlife Diseases". He completed two doctoral theses at the Free University of Berlin: 1993 in the subject of veterinary medicine (subject: "Bovine virus diarrhea / mucosal disease (BVD / MD) in cervids in different field and enclosure populations: seroepizootiology and virus isolation") and in 2000 in the subject of biology (subject : "Characterization of the health status of deer (Capreolus capreolus) in areas with high pollution (cadmium, lead and PCB) compared to areas with low pollution"). In 2002 his habilitation was  accepted at the Free University of Berlin , the title of his habilitation thesis was "Studies on the epidemiology of selected infectious diseases in wild animals". Frölich then taught from June 2002 to September 2010 as a private lecturer  at the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the Free University of Berlin. From October 2010 to February 2014, he held  a private lectureship in the natural sciences department at the University of Hildesheim , after which he took up a visiting professorship at the university .

From 2002 to 2009, in addition to his scientific activities, he was responsible for the veterinary care of the Eekholt wildlife park , and since spring 2007 he has been director of the Arche Warder zoo . Frölich's research focuses on zoo and wild animal diseases, species protection, domestic and wild animal studies and old domestic animal breeds. In 2010, together with Susanne Kopte, he brought out the work “Old farm animal breeds - rare and worth protecting”, which was later reissued.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d CV Kai Frölich on arche-warder.de. In: arche-warder.de. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  2. Kai Frölich: Bovine virus diarrhea / mucosal disease (BVD / MD) in cervids in different outdoor and enclosure populations: seroepizootiology and virus isolation. In: FU Berlin: LIBRARY PORTAL PRIMO. 1993, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  3. Kai Frölich: Characterization of the health status of deer (Capreolus capreolus) in areas with high pollution (cadmium, lead and PCB) compared to areas with low pollution. In: FU Berlin: LIBRARY PORTAL PRIMO. 2000, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  4. Kai Frölich: Studies on the epidemiology of selected infectious diseases in wild animals. In: FU Berlin: LIBRARY PORTAL PRIMO. 2002, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The head of the zoo is now a professor. In: kn-online.de. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  6. Ancient breeds of farm animals. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .