Dr. Henning Scholz
| Phone | +49 (0)30 2093 8864 |
| Fax | +49 (0)30 2093 8868 |
| Address |
Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin Invalidenstrasse 43 10115 Berlin Germany |
• professional background
• tasks
• collections
• research interests
• awards
• research travels
• publications
professional background
- Education: 1994-99 study of geology-palaeontology at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg 1999-2002 PhD project at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg
- Internship: 03.03.-11.04.1997 at the geological department of the research institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt/Main: Development of concepts for the presentation of an exhibition in the Senckenberg museum - topic: geologic age determination
- Employment: between 1995 and 2001 several times at the Institutes of Geology and Paleontology in Würzburg as scientific assistant and tutor, respectively
- Postdoc: 1.11.2002-30.9.2004 within the postgraduate research program "Evolutionary Transformations and Mass Extinctions", Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Curator/Researcher: since 1.10.2004, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Project Coordinator "Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe": since 1.5.2009, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
tasks
- Project Coordinator "Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe" (EU project carried out in the framework of the eContentplus Programme)
- Acting Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology
- Management of optical instruments
collections
- Bivalvia
- Gastropoda
- Scaphopoda, Rostroconchia, Monoplacophora
- Brachiopoda
- Porifera
research interests
- taxonomy (bivalves and gastropods) and palaeoecology of the Upper Jurassic of N-Germany
- recent freshwater bivalves of Lake Malawi and their taxonomy, ecology, and evolution
- evolution and palaeoecology of unionoid bivalves
- effects of extinction events for the evolution of the unionoids
- fossil molluscs of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Koobi-Fora Formation of the Turkana-Basin: taxonomy, palaeoecology, evolution
- geometric and multivariate morphometrics (Fourier Analysis, Landmark-Analysis) including statistics
awards
- DAAD research grant for three month (fieldwork in Malawi, E-Africa)
- second prize (students poster contest) at the World Congress of Malacology in Vienna 2001
- poster award at the annual meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Freiberg 2007
research travels
- 1997 celtiberic chains, Spain (geologic mapping)
- 1999-2002 museum collections in Munich, Frankfurt, Bremen, Berlin, London, and Cambridge
- 2000 Lake Malawi, Malawi (field work for PhD-project)
- 2003 Patagonia, Argentina (field work)
- 2003 Montana, USA (field work); Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA (collection work)
- 2006 India (field work)
- 2006 Nairobi & Turkana Basin, Kenya