Coregonus
Aus den Archiven zum angewandten Artenschutz: Biodiversitätsmonitoring der Coregonen in Österreich
Team
NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN, FISCHSAMMLUNG
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Anja Palandačić
Position: Project Lead
is Deputy Curator and Collection Manager of the Fish Collection at NHM Vienna. Her scientific achievements include mainly population genetic, phylogenetic and biodiversity research on small whitefishes of the Balkan Peninsula, while the breakthrough in her career was the systematic study of European minnows, which brought an enormous increase in knowledge about this fish group. In these studies, she has focused on genetic analysis of historical material
Dr. Ernst Mikschi
Position: Senior Research Associate
Head of the 1st Zoological Department which among others includes Fish Collection. Throughout his career, he has been involved as an ecologist and in numerous conservation programs at the national level, working with various stakeholders including scientists, fishermen and policy makers.
Dr. Susanne Reier
Position: Project Researcher
Studied biology with focus on zoology at the University of Vienna and wildlife ecology and wildlife management at BOKU. Since 2016 scientific project assistant at NHM Vienna in different projects with research focus on molecular biology, parasitology and evolutionary biology. Currently PhD student in the FWF project “Dispersal of aquatic organisms in the karst area” with focus on the study of population structure of minnows in the Dinaric Karst.
Dr. Nina Bogutskaja
Position: Project Researcher
She is an expert in fish taxonomy and systematics: she has described 39 new species and 2 new genera of freshwater fishes, published numerous taxonomic and faunistic monographs, and studied a wide range of fish taxa in Eurasia. She has played a major role in a multi-year project under the NSF programme “Assembling the Tree of Life”, in an international project “Freshwater Ecoregions of the World” and in a number of initiatives on the distribution of freshwater fishes.
Dr. Gennadiy A. Shandikov
Position: Project Researcher
He is an expert in the morphology, taxonomy and ecology of fishes in both the freshwater and marine environments of Europe and the Antarctic seas. Much of his work is revisionary and includes the description of new taxa or poorly known forms, as well as detailed systematic analyses, distribution, age, maturation and gonadal development. He has described 10 new species.
MSc. Min Chai
Position: Research Technologist
She completed her master’s degree in Zoology at the University of Vienna. As part of her master’s thesis, she studied several methods for analyzing DNA. Since her time in the fish collection, she has specialized in the analysis of historical DNA from old museum specimens.
BSc. Rok Friedrich
Position: Project Manager
During his professional career, he has led or participated in numerous financing and other projects in international banking. Recently, he has been engaged with the implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the financial and real economy. He is currently working as a project manager at the NHMW.
FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FÜR LIMNOLOGIE, MONDSEE, UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK
Univ. Doz. Dr. Josef Wanzenböck
Position: Senior Research Associate
Head of Research group fish ecology at the Research Department for Limnology, Mondsee, of the University of Innsbruck (until 2012 Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). Research on fishecology with focus on Austrian prae-alpine lakes and endangered fishes.
TECHNISCHES BÜRO FÜR BIOLOGIE
Mag. Dr. Martin Luger
Position: Head of Department Lake Research
has been working at the BAW-IGF in the Department Lake Research since 2009. The main topics of his work are the implementation of the EU-WFD on the large Austrian lakes, including fish stock surveys, development of the ALFI assessment method and the national guideline. Other tasks include limnological monitoring of the large Salzkammergut lakes and research on the effects of climate change on Austrian lakes.
