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Dr. Andreas Zwick
Entomology
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Rosenstein 1
70191 Stuttgart
GERMANY

phone: +49 711 8936-223

e-mail: andreas.zwick@smns-bw.de

home pages:
http://science.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/de/entomologie/zwick

http://phylotools.com/

Research interests

  • Taxonomy and phylogeny of Lepidoptera, particularly Bombycoidea and Lasiocampidae
  • Higher phylogeny and classification of Lepidoptera
  • Higher phylogeny of Hexapoda and other Arthropoda
  • Molecular phylogenetics

  • Curriculum vitae

    since 03/2010 Curator of Lepidoptera at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany.

    11/2007 - 03/2010 Postdoctoral research associate / bioinformatics specialist for the "Assembling the Tree of Life Lepidoptera" project ( http://leptree.net ) at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, MD, USA.

    12/2005 - 04/2007 Various technical positions and visiting scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection and CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

    02/2002 - 12/2006 PhD at the Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Dissertation on the phylogeny and taxonomy of Anthelidae (Lepidoptera).

    10/1994 - 04/2001 Master's in biology at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany. Master's thesis on the chaetosema-like sense organ of Lasiocampidae (Lepidoptera).

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