Stefan Richter (zoologist)

Stefan Richter (born July 12, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German zoologist and lecturer at the University of Rostock .

From 1983 Richter studied biology, Protestant theology , archeology and paleontology at the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1995 at the Free University of Berlin with Wolfgang Dohle with a dissertation on the relationships of higher cancers ( Malacostraca ) and was then a research assistant until 2003 and later a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1999 he was visiting scholar at the Australian Museum in Sydney and from 2000 to 2002 at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen . In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin, was then a university assistant at the University of Jena and in 2004/05 he was a Lerner Gray Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History . In 2007 he became a professor in Rostock.

Among other things, he deals with phylogenetic analysis, morphology and systematics of crustaceans , formation of tagmata and extremities, progenesis in water fleas, biogeography and evolutionary ecology (settlement of the Ponto-Caspian basin and temporary waters in Australia), general questions of phylogenetic analysis (such as homologies ) and history of biology.

He is President of the German Zoological Society for 2017/18 . He is Editor of Zoomorphology and Associate Editor of Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny , serves on the editorial board of Acta Zoologica, and was editor of the Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research from 2011-2015 and Associate Editor of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution from 2006-2010 . He is one of the main authors of the Jena Declaration .

Web links

• University of Rostock, General and Special Zoology: Prof. Dr. Stefan Richter
• Entry on Stefan Richter in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009