Dr.Mareike Petersen
(Sie/Ihr)

Head of Research Programme

• Collection Future

• 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.

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.