Sebastian Lotzkat

Sebastian Lotzkat (born September 4, 1981 in Friedberg , Hessen ) is a German biologist . He is a herpetologist and science slammer . His main research interests are the amphibians and reptiles of Panama and Venezuela .

Life

After graduating from the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Lotzkat studied biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he received his diploma in 2007 with the thesis on taxonomy and zoogeography of the herpetofauna of the Nirgua massif, Venezuela gained with the dissertation in 2015. diversity, taxonomy, and biogeography of the reptiles inhabiting the highlands of the Cordillera Central (Serrania de Talamanca and Serrania de Tabasara) in western Panama , led by Bruno Streit , Wolfgang Böhme and Gunther Köhler doctor the science doctorate was. For this he spent about a year in the rainforests of Panama to study the biodiversity of reptiles and amphibians. In October 2006, Lotzkat and Andreas Hertz succeeded in rediscovering the frog species Agalychnis medinae on Cerro Zapatero in Venezuela, a species that has been believed to have been lost since 1974. In 2007, he rediscovered the frog species Mannophryne neblina in the Venezuelan state of Yaracuy , which has not been seen since its discovery in 1956. In the same year he became a research assistant at the herpetological department of the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research . In addition to his scientific work, he designs and realizes guided tours, workshops, lectures and excursions in the Senckenberg Nature Museum and the Palmengarten in Frankfurt . In 2015 he wrote a contribution for the book Ingeniously Protected: Refined Packaging in Nature and in 2016 he published the books Landflucht der Wildtiere und Don't worry about snakes . Lotzkat also brought the latter to the stage as a Science Slam, for which he was awarded at the Science Slam Esslingen in April 2016. Other science slams are Who am I - and if so, how many from 2014 and Climate Change Diversity from 2016. In 2017 he was awarded the Werner and Inge Grüter Prize for Science Education .

Lotzkat is a member of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland , the Society for Tropical Ecology and the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science . He was involved, often with Andreas Hertz and Gunther Köhler , in the first scientific descriptions of Diasporus citrinobapheus , Ecnomiohyla bailarina , Bolitoglossa indio and Norops benedikti .

literature

• Sebastian Lotzkat: Dissertation Diversity, taxonomy, and biogeography of the reptiles inhabiting the highlands of the Cordillera Central (Serranía de Talamanca and Serranía de Tabasará) in western Panama , 2015 (with curriculum vitae and bibliography (as of 2014) on pages 925– 930).

Web links

• Short biography at Prabook
• Science Slam Don't worry about the queue at the Alpha Campus Slam Munich, 2016 (video)