Monika Niehaus

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Monika Niehaus (also called Monika Niehaus-Osterloh ; born 1951 in Hinsbeck , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German writer and biologist.

Life

Niehaus studied biology with a focus on neurophysiology and biophysics at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where she graduated in 1979 with a doctorate on air flow perception in flying day butterflies . Since then she has been a freelance writer and translator of scientific textbooks and specialist books from English.

As an author, she writes non-fiction books (including, together with Udo Pollmer, a number of books on misinformation in the fields of nutrition and health, a number of study books for distance learning biology at Springer Verlag and, most recently, two books on unusual psychological syndromes at Hirzel ) and novels and short stories with a focus on science fiction . Her first short story Heimweh nach Tau Ceti was awarded the Robert Sheckley Prize by Bastei Verlag in 1984. Niehaus is a member of the “Fantastic Upper Rhine” group of authors. From 2001 to 2008 she wrote over a dozen popular science articles for the Perry Rhodan Journal , a supplement to the Perry Rhodan magazine series . For many years she has been an honorary juror for biology at the Jugend forscht competition in Düsseldorf.

Niehaus is married and has two sons.

bibliography

Novels
  • The mission of Popess Joan. Science fiction novel. Katzmarz and Fieberg, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-926829-14-1 .
  • Game of the monkey: thriller. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 14160, 1998, ISBN 3-404-14160-1 .
  • Mangrovia: Adventure in the Wild Forest. Science fiction novel for teenagers. Schillinger Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2017, ISBN 978-3-89155-399-2 .
Collections
Short stories
  • Homesickness for Tau Ceti in the constellation Whale (1984)
  • Of Humans and Rats (1988)
  • Yinx Are Vengeful (1989)
  • Toad Web (1993)
  • The Chicxulub Comet (2000)
  • A Kind of Immortality (2002)
  • Collectors among themselves (2008)
  • A Chain of Unfortunate Circumstances (2010)
  • The dragon keeper (2012)
  • The Umama Fisi (2013)
  • Beyond the Stars (2017)
  • Half a Dozen Eggs (2017)
  • The Banquet (2017)
  • An eye for details (2017)
  • Three short grotesques (2018)
  • No Aquarians on Aquarios (2018)
Non-fiction
  • Air flow perception in flying day butterflies: Unters. on the structure and function of the antennae of the little fox (Aglais urticae L.). Dissertation University of Düsseldorf 1980.
  • About the suitability of the success-failure attempt and the heart rate for characterizing a psychoactive substance in childhood: a method-critical investigation. Dissertation Academy for Medical Training Berlin 1981.
  • with Udo Pollmer : Food design: Panschen allowed; how our food loses its innocence. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7776-1447-2 .
  • with Udo Pollmer: Who eats healthy, dies earlier: facts and fallacies about our food. BLV, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8354-0312-3 .
  • with Udo Pollmer: It is your own fault who lives healthy: what the health apostles keep from us. BLV, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8354-0651-3 .
  • with Andrea Fock, Jutta Muth and Udo Pollmer: Opium for the people: natural drugs in our food. Rororo # 62635. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-62635-7 .
  • with Andrea Pfuhl: The Psycho-Trojans: How Parasites Control Us. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7776-2622-2 .
  • Reproduction of animals. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-55274-2 .
  • with Claudia Mainka: Toxicology. Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55264-3 .
  • Sensory and motor skills. Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55131-8 .
  • Pathophysiology Part 1. Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55166-0 .
  • Pathophysiology Part 2. Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55168-4 .
  • Nervous systems and their building blocks. Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55278-0 .
  • Development of animals. Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55276-6 .
  • The woman who thought her husband was a doppelganger: When the brain goes crazy: 36 rare and unusual psychological syndromes. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-7776-2743-4 .
  • The Nobel Prize winner who met a polite raccoon in the forest: When the brain goes crazy: 30 rare and unusual psychological syndromes. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-7776-2799-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Niehaus, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niehaus-Osterloh, Monika; Niehaus, Monika Claudia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinsbeck , North Rhine-Westphalia