Gerhard Haszprunar
Gerhard Haszprunar ( born February 25, 1957 in Vienna) is an Austrian zoologist as well as in personal union professor at the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich, Director of the Zoological State Collection Munich and director of the State Natural History Collections in Bavaria.
Life and work
Gerhard Haszprunar grew up in Vienna, where in 1975 he made his Matura. From 1975 to 1976 he completed his military service, where he was trained as a militia officer. From 1976 to early 1982, he studied zoology and botany at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD in late 1982 "sub auspiciis ". From 1982 to 1987 he served as Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna in the Department of Zoology and development history, headed by Univ. -Prof. Luitfried Salvini - Plawén active. How Salvini - Plawén Haszprunar is a specialist in the systematics of mollusks.
In 1987 Haszprunar at the Leopold -Franzens University in Innsbruck, where he initially. Than a university assistant at the Institute of Zoology in the Department of Ultrastructural Research and Evolutionary Biology, headed by Univ. -Prof Reinhard M. Rieger worked. The end of 1988 he habilitated at the University of Innsbruck in early 1989, he earned the right to teach there as a university lecturer for " zoology " at the former Faculty of Natural Sciences and in 1990 he was taken there as an assistant professor in a permanent employment relationship.
1995 Haszprunar received an appointment to the chair of " Systematic Zoology " at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich and has also been active in personal union as director of the Zoological State Collection Munich. Since early 2006 he has also served as director of the State Bavarian Natural History Collections, the General and Central Government have their headquarters in Munich.
Gerhard Haszprunar is married, the couple has three children.