Ulrich Joger

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Ulrich Joger (born January 21, 1955 in Hanover ) is a German biologist and director of the State Natural History Museum in Braunschweig .

Life

Joger studied biology and paleontology at the University of Marburg . He received his doctorate there in 1983 and his habilitation in 1994 . As a herpetologist, he described numerous animals for the first time. In 2004 he was appointed director of the Natural History Museum in Braunschweig. He took part in an expedition to the Republic of Niger , where he discovered a new species of dinosaur . In 2007, the team from the Natural History Museum unearthed dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period during the first German dinosaur dig in Africa in 95 years. The excavations were recorded in an expedition film, which was presented to the public in an exhibition that same year with some finds.

Joger is involved as a board member in the “Dr. Scheller Foundation ", is a member of the advisory board of the" Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz " foundation , the scientific advisory board of the" Geopark Harz - Ostfalen - Braunschweiger Land "and the advisory board for the research and experience center" Schöninger Speere " . With his participation, two projects could be initiated and realized, the dinosaur exhibition 2011 and the exhibition Background Living Worlds at the Time of the "Schöninger Spears" .

On May 31, 2013, he gave the lecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig ... a considerable collection of natural objects, at the local cider house about Duke Carl I and the beginnings of the Braunschweig Natural History Museum in the Age of Enlightenment .

Publications (selection)

  • The Venomous Snakes of the Near and Middle East. in: Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Series A. Natural Sciences No. 12. L. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-882-26199-4 .
  • with Zoltán Tamás Nagy, Michael Wink, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences: Multiple colonization of Madagascar and Socotra by colubrid snakes: evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial gene phylogenies. in: Proc Biol Sci. December 2003; 270 (1533: 2613-2621). doi : 10.1098 / rspb.2003.2547 .
  • with Uwe Fritz, Daniela Guicking, Svetlana Kalyabina-Hauf, Zoltan T. Nagy, Michael Wink: Phylogeography of western Palaearctic reptiles - Spatial and temporal speciation patterns. in: Zoologischer Anzeiger. 246 (2007) pp. 293-313.
  • with Jörg Faust , Ralf Kosma, Fritz J. Krüger : Project Dino: the story of the discovery of new dinosaurs in Niger, Africa. CARGO-Verlag, Schwülper 2009, ISBN 978-3-938-69317-9 .
  • with CE. Pook, N. Stümpel, W. Wüster: When continents collide: phylogeny, historical biogeography and systematics of the medically important viper genus Echis (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). in: Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2009 Dec; 53 (3): 792-807. doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2009.08.002 .
  • with Monika Böhm: The conservation status of the world's reptiles. Biological Conservation, Volume 157, January 2013, pp. 372-385.

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Joger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evolution up close ( memento from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on hausderwissenschaft.org, accessed on September 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ The museum staff at 3landesmuseen.de, accessed on September 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Paleontology: The first of their kind on geo.de, accessed on September 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ Dinosaurs for Braunschweig - Schools and technical know-how for Niger on braunschweig.de, accessed on September 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ Board of Trustees - Prof. Dr. Ulrich Joger ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on dr-scheller-stiftung.de, accessed on September 22, 2013.
  6. ^ Regional History Symposium ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on biblio.tu-bs.de, accessed on September 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Joger, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, university professor and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover