Dr Christiane Quaisser
Address
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Invalidenstraße 43
10115 Berlin
Germany
Phone +49 (0)30 2093 8377
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 8561
E-Mail christiane.quaisser(at)mfn-berlin.de
Tasks
- Acting Head of Department of Collections
- Acting Head of Science Program Collection Development
- Collection Initiatives
- Science Program "Collection Development": agreed collection management policies and procedures, initiation of projects and training programmes, coordination of working groups, engagement with national and international societies and fora
- Executive Secretary of the Collections Policy Board (CPB)
- Secretariat of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF)
Research interests
- Management and development of natural history collections
- Conservation science
- Nomenclatural and taxonomic problems with bird types (portrait)
Publications
(Selection)
Quaisser, C. & F. Woog (2011): Sammlungsrichtlinien am Beispiel naturkundlicher Sammlungen. - In: Weber, C. & K. Mauersberger (Hrsg.): Universitätsmuseen und -sammlungen im Hochschulalltag. Aufgaben . Konzepte . Perspektiven. Beiträge zum Symposium vom 18.–20. Februar 2010 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 33-42 (URL: edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/ums2010)
Quaisser, C. (2010): On the nomenclature of the Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor infuscatus E. Hartert, 1902 (Aves: Muscicapidae) with lectotype designation for Cyornis cyanopolia Blyth, 1870. - Zootaxa 2450: 65-67.
Quaisser, C., Pasquet, E. & J.-F. Murail (2010): Reftax-Aves - First steps towards an online distributed type catalogue of birds of the world. Proceedings of the 5th International Meeting of European Bird Curators, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien: 105 - 111.
Quaisser, C. & L. Kriegsman (2008): First design of integrated physical infrastructures. - EDIT Newsletter 12: 10-11 (URL: www.e-taxonomy.eu/files/newsletter12.pdf)
Dekker, R.W.R.J. & C. Quaisser (2006): Type specimens of birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Part 3. Passerines: Pachycephalidae – Corvidae (Peters’s sequence). - NNM Technical Bulletin 9: 1-78. (URL: www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41357)
Quaisser, C. (2001): Vogelgemälde zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. - In: Magirius, H. (Hrsg.): 600 Jahre Hoflößnitz – Historische Weingutanlage. Michel Sandstein Dresden: 74-82, 196-199
