Volker Storch
Volker Storch (born December 4, 1943 in Neumünster , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German zoologist .
biography
Storch studied biology and chemistry at the University of Kiel and received his doctorate there in 1968 with a thesis on comparative anatomical polychaete (Polychaeta) under the guidance of Adolf Remane . In 1971 he completed his habilitation with a comparative-ultrastructural work on receptors . From 1973 to 1976 he was entrusted with the representation of a professorship in Hamburg; In 1978 he was a visiting professor in the Philippines . From 1979 until his retirement in 2009 he was a full professor at the University of Heidelberg . He then held other guest lectureships in Southeast Asia and research stays abroad, particularly in the USA , Australia and the Antarctic .
Together with Adolf Remane and Ulrich Welsch, Volker Storch is the author of a number of well-known non-fiction and textbooks, which are considered standard works in zoological studies.
Memberships and honors
- Member of the working group (AK) evolutionary biology
- In honor of Volker Storch five species were named: the kinorhyncha Condyloderes Storchi that shrimp Periclimenaeus Storchi and the polychaete Archinome Storchi and Samytha Storchi and the velvet worms Peripatopsis Storchi .
- 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
- 2010: Senior Professor at the Ruperto Carola
Fonts (selection)
- with Maximilian Renner , Volker Storch and Ulrich Welsch : Kükenthal's guidelines for the zoological internship. 20th, revised edition. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena 1991; last: with Ulrich Welsch: Kükenthal zoological internship. 26th edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg 2009.
- with Ulrich Welsch and Michael Wink : Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Berlin 2001; 3rd, revised and updated edition 2013.
Web links
- Literature by and about Volker Storch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Volker Storch on the Heidelberg University website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Storch appointed senior professor at Ruperto Carola, Heidelberg University website, March 11, 2010, accessed on September 22, 2013.
- ↑ [1] , website of the Evolutionary Biology Working Group, accessed on October 6, 2015
- ↑ Zoologist Volker Storch is the namesake of a newly discovered animal species , Heidelberg University website, June 12, 2013, accessed on September 22, 2013.
- ↑ [2] , website of the University of Greifswald, accessed on October 6, 2015
- ↑ [3] , Heidelberg University website, accessed on October 6, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Storch, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neumunster , Schleswig-Holstein |