Dr. Mareike Petersen (she/her)

Head of Science Programme

Mareike.Petersen@mfn.berlin+49 30 889 140 - 8389
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Collection Future

I head the “Future of the Collection” research area, which is responsible for the museum’s physical-digital collection. It is important to me to develop this as part of the global knowledge repository and to open it up to multidisciplinary research, politics, education, art, business and interested users.

Project(s)

  • Third-Party Funded Project

    WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

    Knowledge Lab for Natural Science Collections and Object-Related Data

Vita

I studied biology in Marburg and Würzburg and did my doctorate at the Museum für Naturkunde and the Humboldt University in Berlin on the adaptation behavior of amphibians to changing environmental conditions in Cameroon. I then worked on the development of data standards for biodiversity research and helped set up research data management at the MfN. Since June 2024, I have been heading the Future of the Collection research area, which combines the development of a physical-digital infrastructure with question-driven and application-related research.

Publications

Kaiser, K., Heumann, I., Dubova, A., Wagner, S., Berger, F., Petersen, M., Nadim, T., Hoffmann, J. (2026). Digitalisierung von kolonialen naturkundlichen Objekten. In Umgang mit kolonialen Objekten der Naturkunde: Empfehlungen, Forschung, Reflexionen. Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/ARTHISTORICUM.1749.C25873Open Access

Berger, F., Petersen, M. (2026). Auf dem Weg zu einer relevanten und gerechten Zukunft der Sammlung. In Umgang mit kolonialen Objekten der Naturkunde: Empfehlungen, Forschung, Reflexionen. Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/ARTHISTORICUM.1749.C25865Open Access

Kaiser, K., Heumann, I., Nadim, T., Keysar, H., Petersen, M., Korun, M., Berger, F. (2023). Promises of mass digitisation and the colonial realities of natural history collections. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 11, 13-25. DOI: https://www.natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/JoNSC-Vol11_Kaiser_et_al_2023.pdf 

Miklashevsky, A., Heinle, K., Albrecht, C., Loginova, K., Szigli, K., Petersen, M. (2024). WiNoDa Knowledge Lab: Ein Datenkompetenzzentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen und Objektzentrierte Daten. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886477Open Access

Parolini, G., Petersen, M. (2024). What Is Sustainability? A Reflection From the Perspective of Biodiversity Informatics. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 8, e132930. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.132930Open Access

Petersen, M., Berger, F., Blessing, A., Glöckler, F., Herrmann, E., Hoffmann, J., Hoffmann, A., Quaisser, C., Tata, N. (2023). Nutzungsgetriebene Erschließung und Digitalisierung für einen offenen Zugang zu naturkundlichen Sammlungen.. In Becker, I.C., Lehmann, F., Meier, R., Uhde, K. (Hrsg.), Alte und neue Kontexte der Erschließung. Beiträge zum 26. Archivwissenschaftlichen Kolloquium der Archivschule Marburg. Archivschule Marburg. Marburg. URL: https://www.archivschule.de/publikationen/veroeffentlichungen

Von Mering, S., Stolze, E., Kaiser, K., Petersen, M. (2024). Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 10, e118851. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e118851Open Access

Hoffmann, J., Schuster, F., Berger, F., Glöckler, F., Petersen, M., Tata, N., Herrmann, E., Hoffmann, A., Quaisser, C., Rietschel, S., Korun, M., Mützel, C., Kaiser, K., Hermannstädter, A., Kilbourne, B., Madruga, C., Strohmann, V., Abd el Gawad, H.H., Adejuwon, A.M., Antonites, A., Arfvidsson, H., Asino, W.N., Coly, P.A., Coulson, I., Dao, S.C., Dau, J., Endter, S., Funke, B., Gallé, L., Gawkowski, J.J., Hassan, N., Henning, P., Huber, A.K., Inyangete, E.M., Iyumva, M.R., Kalumne, A.S., Kapalamula, M., Karim, E.I.A., Karro, P., Kesler, M.C., Keurmeur, N.L.M.D., Khaled Morsi, N., Kuatche Fowo, B.C., Muchefa, L., Lovegrove Pereira, S., Lowe, M.C., Makongo Nsobley, Y.J., Moustafa Ahmed, N., Nafula, L.R., Ngenzi, V., Ngoma, K.T., Nobah, S., Owusu, P., Oyeniran, T.A., Rakotamanana, H.F., Rüter, J., Sagiya, M.E., Schief, J.V., Schwere, R., Abdrabo Abdelwahab, S., Shallangwa, Z.M., Šlepikaitė, S., Ssebuyungo, C., Stumpfe, W., Thobejane, M., Umuhoza, C., Walawala, B.M., Wohlfarth, S., Yonga, S., Ysebaert, S.A.O., Zindel, Y.B.M. (2023). TheMuseumsLab Digitization Workshop 2022. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7479/f0gw-7403Open Access

Heinle, K., Miklashevsky, A., Albrecht, C., Szigli, K., Loginova, K., Petersen, M. (2024). WiNoDa Knowledge Lab - Wissenslabor für Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen und objektzentrierte Daten. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.13832469Open Access

Parolini, G., Von Mering, S., Petersen, M. (2023). Classifying Colonial Objects in Museum Collections with Machine Learning and Historical Knowledge. In Formel, S., Benson, A., Biddle, M., van der Stap, T., Newman, P. (Hrsg.), BISS - SYM04 The CARE principles: Learning and growing as a data management community (Bd. 7, e110872). Pensoft Publishers. Tasmania. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110872Open Access

Parolini, G., Petersen, M. (2024). Sustainability in Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.12705118Open Access