Dr. Katharina C. M. von Oheimb

Scientist / (Senior) Scientist

Katharina.vonOheimb@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 8055
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Department:
Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery

Research: 1) Evolution, diversity and distribution of molluscs, 2) Biodiversity on cemeteries (Leben zwischen Gräbern project), 3) Molluscs in natural history collections

I work in the collections:
Malacology

Vita

  • since 2019: Scientist (postdoc), Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
  • 2015–2019: Scientist (postdoc), Life Sciences Department, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom 
  • 2013–2015: Scientist (postdoc), Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • 2013: Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany; Thesis: “Non-indigenous Dreissenidae in Europe - Reconstruction of invasion histories”
  • 2008–2013: Doctoral student, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • 2008: Diploma in Biology (with distinction), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Further information

Awards and grants

  • 2015–2017: Research Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (OH 280/1-1)
  • 2016: Travel Award of the Malacological Society of London
  • 2011: Travel grant, Molluscan Forum, London
  • 2009–2011: PhD Scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation
  • 2006: Award for the best poster presentation (as co-author), SIAL IV, Berlin

Membership in scientific societies

  • since 2017: The Malacological Society of London 
  • since 2009: Unitas Malacologica 
  • since 2008: Naturschutzbund Deutschland 
  • since 2006: German Malacological Society 
  • since 2006: German Zoological Society

Teaching and science communication

  • Supervision of seminars and practical courses on zoology, ecology, biogeography and evolutionary biology
  • Co-supervision of diploma and master theses
  • Development and realisation of various popular science formats
  • Co-founder of the project Schemenkabinett