Dr.Christiane Quaisser

Christiane.Quaisser@mfn.berlin
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I am leading the research group on heritage and conservation science. My research interests focus particulary on deterioration processes of mammal furs and hides, handling of biocides in museum collections, and increasing the environmental resilience of valuable cultural assets.
Based on 15 years experience in strategic development and management of collections, I am also contributing to design the future of collections as knowledge infrastructure.

 

I work in the laboratories:
Collection Care Laboratories
I am part of the research areas and working groups:
Conservation Research

Vita

Christiane is a biologist by profession and has a background in ornithology. After her PhD, scientific projects brought her to major natural science collections in Europe. The deep insights inspired her to move on to collections management. From the beginning, Christiane’s work has focused on strategies in management and development of natural science collections to transform them into an open knowledge infrastructure.

In 2013, she became Head of Collections at the MfN leading the change into the Science Programme Collection Future and the realization of the project Collection Discovery and Development as part of the Future Plan (see https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf6434 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVupD7BxV-U  ; and https://youtu.be/mQCgDf3-DTU?si=mlRNUiAp7xMS5mhM ).

In 2026, she returned to research. Current research interests are focusing on heritage and conservation science, e.g. on biocides, deteriorations processes, and environmental resilience of valuable cultural assets, underpinning the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration as guiding principle and key success factor.
 

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Projects

 ERHÖHUNG DER UMWELT-RESILIENZ VON WERTVOLLEM KULTURGUT IN NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN SAMMLUNGEN (Project Lead)

Member of Scientific Advisory Boards


- BRAIN-be 2.0 Research Programme, Belgian Science Policy Office, Brussels, Belgium (2019-2023)
- MUSA Project (https://musa-projekt.de/) (2023-2025)

Memberships  


Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collection, German Ornithologists’ Society