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Matthias Glaubrecht (PhD, PD)
matthias.glaubrecht(@)mfn-berlin.de
Matthias Glaubrecht is coordinating the freshwater mollusc element in FREDIE. He is curator of Mollusca at MfN with a research interest in evolutionary systematics and zoogeography of freshwater mollusca as well as the history of biology. He has expertise on the biodiversity and evolution of fresh- and brackish water snails, in particular from Africa and the Indopacific. He is the author of six popular and three scientific books, two of them award-winning. He has also published 132 scientific papers including 61 ISI papers. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Zoosystematics and Evolution”.
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Thomas von Rintelen (PhD)
thomas.rintelen(@)mfn-berlin.de
Thomas von Rintelen is coordinating the molecular work of the freshwater mollusc element in FREDIE. He is lab coordinator of the DNA laboratory at MfN with a research interest in the evolution and biogeography particularly of freshwater invertebrates. He has expertise on molecular methods as well as the taxonomy of several SE Asian freshwater mollusc taxa.
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Katharina Kurzrock (MSc)
Katharina.Kurzrock(@)mfn-berlin.de
Katharina Kurzrock is a PhD student in Matthias Glaubrecht´s research group at the MfN. She is interested in the systematics, biodiversity and evolution of European freshwater molluscs. Before starting her PhD, she worked – next to different other groups (e.g. Tylomelania snailsand microhylid frogs) – for her diploma in biology on the molecular phylogeny of marine gastropods in the family Trochoidae.