Our researchers often collaborate with partners from other countries or disciplines to answer specific research questions. Together they work on a result from different perspectives and with different competences. Our projects reflect the range of topics that our researchers are working on.
2026
PhenoRob2 - Robotics and phenotyping for sustainable plant production
Management: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
2025
Ecuadorian-German Integrative Biodiversity Research Centre (EGiB)
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
2025
An unexpected discovery: the pill millipedes of Mallorca and the Spanish Mediterranean
Management: Dr. Thomas Wesener
2025
The influence of mutualistic and parasitic life forms on the diversification of butterflies
Management: Dr. Marianne Espeland
2025
Unique in the world and highly endangered, the millipedes of the Lavasoa-Ambatotsirongorongo forest in Madagascar
Management: Dr. Thomas Wesener
2022
BIO-GEEC: The German-Ecuadorian Consortium for Biodiversity (Stage 1)
Management: Dr. Danilo Harms
2022
FörTax - Promotion of taxonomic knowledge as a basis for nature conservation
Management: Dr. Katja Waskow
2022
Morphological development of the skull of worm snakes: a comparative study
Management: Dr. Claudia Koch
2022
Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and colour pattern evolution of the subfamily Chalcosiinae
Management: Dr. Marianne Espeland
2022
Investigating the genomic and transcriptomic signatures of global change in a marine fish species in space and time
Management: Dr. Christoph Mayer
2022
Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of the enigmatic West Indian butterfly genus Calisto
Management: Dr. Rayner Nunez
2021
GIBBS (Holistic Biodiversity Management in the Building Materials Industry)
Management: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
2021
Comparative and experimental wing pattern genomics in Lepidoptera
Management: Dr. Marianne Espeland
2021
BALIN - Insect protection at the railway station by reducing light pollution
Management: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
2020
Reconstruction of the dynamics of Cenozoic ecosystems in Europe based on arachnids preserved in amber
Management: Dr. Ulrich Kotthoff
before 2018
Systematics, reproductive biology and biogeography
Management: Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht
Unknown group of puffer millipedes in Cretaceous amber
Management: Dr. Thomas Wesener
Evolutionary history, biogeography and systematics of land snails in Southeast Asia
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Systematics, distribution and ecology of land snails in Ecuador
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Biogeography and systematics of the land snails of the Caucasus Region
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Alien land snails
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Training Artificial intelligence models for land snail identification (TrAILSID)
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Causes of phylogeographic differentiation and speciation in the land snail genus Helix
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Spread of carnivorous land snails (Rhytididae) in New Caledonia
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Hybridization between land snails as a result of climatic shifts
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
Taxonomic revision of the Boaedon lineatus-fuliginosus species complex in Africa
Management: Dr. Jakob Hallermann