Prof. Dr. Axel Hochkirch

Education and Employment

Februar 2023	Curator for Ecology at the National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
June 2017	Distinction as Associate Professor
Feb 2009	Habilitation in Biogeography
Since March 2008	Scientific Lab Manager at the Department of Biogeography, Trier University
July 2007	Habilitation in Ecology Title of the habilitation thesis: "Evolution, Maintenance and Conservation of Biodiversity: Case studies from Orthoptera"
2001-2007	Assistant Professorship at the University of Osnabrück, Division of Ecology
2001	Postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Ecology and Evolution Biology (University of Bremen, IFOE)
May 2001	PhD thesis, University of Bremen (IFOE, Prof. Dr. D. Mossakowski) Title of the thesis: “A phylogenetic analysis of the East African Grasshopper genus Afrophlaeoba Jago, 1983”
1999-2000	Lectureship at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen (ISTAB)
1996-2001	Freelancing biologist, environmental consultant (ecological expertises, mappings) and PhD student
Sept. 1996	Biology Diploma at the University of Bremen (IFOE). Title of the diploma thesis: “Habitat preferences of Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea in the East Usambara Mts., NE Tanzania”
1990-1996	Freelancing biologist, consultant for NGOs, landscape planning, authorities
1990-1996	Study of biology at the University of Bremen; subjects: zoology, ecology, botany, marine biology
1989-1990	Community service at BUND “Diepholzer Moorniederung" (Friends of the Earth - Germany)
1976-1989	Primary and Secondary school in Limburg / Lahn