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Cologne Area, Germany Germany

Independent Researcher working on Biodiversity Monitoring and Bioacoustics in Latin America

Education

I studied zoology and biocybernetics in Frankfurt and Tuebingen, Germany. After my dissertation in Zoology, at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology, I studied the species-rich grasshopper fauna of South America and Malaysia, combining them with neuroethological laboratory experiments about hearing physiology in Orthoptera. Since 1997, I designed and managed the "Global Register of Migratory Species" (www.groms.de) at the Museum Koenig, Bonn, in close cooperation with the Bonn Secretariat of the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), funded by the German ministry of the Environment. At present, I combine my interest in biodiversity informatics and bioacoustic monitoring...