Rainer Willmann

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Rainer Willmann (* 1950 ) is a German zoologist .

Life

After studying palaeontology , geology , zoology and limnology at the University of Kiel from 1969 and a diploma in geology in 1974, Willmann was awarded a doctorate in 1979. rer. nat. doctorate , in 1985 he completed his habilitation.

From 1985 to 1990 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation . From 1988 to 1990 he mainly worked at the British Museum (Natural History), London. From 1990 he worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Kiel, and in 1993 he was appointed to the chair of zoology at the University of Göttingen . There Willmann holds the chair for morphology , systematics and evolutionary biology at the Institute for Zoology and Anthropology Göttingen and director of the zoological museum there .

In 1999/2000 he was dean of the Biological Faculty of the University of Göttingen and initiator and co-founder of the Göttingen Center for Biodioversity Research and Ecology.

Willmann is editor of the journal Species, Phylogeny and Evolution .

Memberships

  • 1982–1994: Member of the Advisory Board for Environment and Nature Conservation of the City of Neumünster
  • 1990–1996: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Museum and Research Institute Alexander Koenig, Bonn
  • 1996–1999: Deputy Chairman of the “Network on Fossil Insects” of the European Science Foundation
  • since 1999: Member of the advisory board of the German Entomological Institute, Eberswalde.
  • since 2002: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Natural History Museum Berlin
  • 1995–1996: Secretary / 1997–1999: Member of the Advisory Board of the Paleontological Society

Awards

  • Prize of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Kiel (1979)
  • Sponsorship award from the Greve Foundation of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences in Hamburg (1990)
  • Honorary Founding Fellow of the International Willi Hennig Society (2000)

Fonts

  • Evolution, systematics and stratigraphic significance of the neogene freshwater gastropods from Rhodes and Kos, Aegean Sea. University thesis. University of Kiel, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 1979 (dissertation)
  • Evolution and phylogenetic system of the Mecoptera (Insecta, Holometabola). University thesis. University of Kiel, 1985 (habilitation thesis)
  • The kind in space and time. The species concept in biology and paleontology. Parey, Berlin / Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-489-62134-4 .
  • (as co-author): Urban biotope mapping Neumünster. Results and Perspectives. Client: The Lord Mayor of the City of Neumünster, Office for Environment and Public Order, Neumünster 1986.
  • Mussels and snails of the North and Baltic Seas. 310 pp., Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen 1989, ISBN 3-7888-0555-2 .
  • [Scientific processing]: Albertus Seba: The natural history cabinet. Based on the original from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. Complete edition of the colored plates 1734 - 1765 (= Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri 1734 - 1765). Taschen, Cologne / London / Madrid / New York / Paris / Tokyo 2001, ISBN 978-3-8228-5505-8 .
  • The Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen. In: “Completely designed for studying.” The museums, collections and gardens of the University of Göttingen. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3892444528 , pp. 249-259.
  • [Scientific processing]: The evolution of plants and animals. An overview of the development of life. Blackboard (84 × 60 cm), Planet-Poster-Edition, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-933922-42-7 .
  • Darwin, Huxley and the women. Budrich, Opladen / Farmington Hills (Michigan) 2009, ISBN 978-3-86649-232-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Willmann, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950