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Volunteer
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therese.cuche[x]ville-ge.ch
Chief technician in the department from 1989 to 2007, now retired.
Activities in the Museum: Sorting Psocoptera from Thailand to morpho-species and adding labels (material assembled by the Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research in Mae Rim near Chiang Mai and studied by Charles Lienhard).
Volunteer
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Biology teacher in Geneva.
Research interests: : Taxonomy of Psocoptera.
Current research projects: Psocoptera of New Guinea and Switzerland.
Volunteer, Honorary Curator
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bernd.hauser[x]ville-ge.ch
Curator of the department from 1968 to 1998, now retired.
Research interests: Taxonomy and biogeography of endogeal micro-arthropods (in soil and caves).
Current research projects: Posthumous editing of the manuscript of Egon Pretner Die Verdienste Leo Weirathers um die Biospeläologie insbesondere Jugoslawiens, sein Höhlenkataster und seine Sammelplätze, and writing a preface for this monograph.
Preparation of a biography of Leo Weirather, in collaboration with Professor Werner Resch (Innsbruck University, Austria).
Assistant Scientist
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john.hollier[x]ville-ge.ch
B. Sc. (Hons) from Imperial College, London in 1982. Volunteer at the Natural History Museum of London (Department of Palaeontology) in 1981; collaborator in ecological surveys of Mitcham Common from 1983 to 1984 and of the Montgomery Canal from 1985 to 1986; research assistant and research technician at Imperial College (London) from 1987 to 1995; part-time consultant for CABI Bioscience from 1995 to 2005; part-time lecturer in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Coventry University from 1996 to 2000. Assistant Scientist in our department since 2007.
Research interests: Ecology and taxonomy of Palaearctic Auchenorrhyncha; succession processes in grassland.
Activities in the museum: Technical assistance and collection management; creation of type catalogues and collection databases; identification of Hemiptera and other insects.
list of publications of John Hollier (pdf, 50k)
Volunteer, Membre correspondant of the Geneva Museum
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ibals[x]bluewin.ch
Graduated from the University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1966. Awarded a doctorate in 1992 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) (thesis supervisor: Vittorio Delucchi). Researcher at the E. Racovitza Institute of Speleology (Bucarest) from 1966 to 1977. Volunteer at the agronomic research station at Changins-Nyon and the Institute of Plant Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) from 1979 to 1992. Biology teacher in Geneva from 1979 to 2000, now retired.
Research interests: Soil and cave ecology; taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of gamasid mites.
Current research projects: Taxonomy and biogeography of some genera of Pergamasinae (Pergamasus, Holoparasitus) and of the genus Neogamasus (Parasitinae).
Activities in the museum: Identification of gamasid mites and the arrangement of the C. Athias-Henriot mite collection.
List of publications of Ilinca Juvara-Bals (pdf; 50k)
Technician
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christina.lehmann-graber[X]ville-ge.ch
Joined the department in 2007.
Volunteer, Honorary Curator
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charleslienhard[x]bluewin.ch
Graduated in 1972 and awarded a doctorate in 1976 by the Institute of Entomology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) (thesis supervisors: Georg Benz and Willi Sauter). Research Officer in the department from 1981 to 2009, now retired.
Research interests: Taxonomy and biogeography of the Psocoptera.
Current research projects: Cave-dwelling Psocoptera from Brazil (selected families), in collaboration with R. L. Ferreira (Federal University of Lavras, Brazil); Psocoptera of the Arabian Peninsula and of the Mediterranean region; Psocoptera of Macaronesia, in collaboration avec A. Baz (Alcala de Henares University, Spain); Psocoptera of Southeast Asia (selected families); Psocoptera of Thailand (selected families), in association with the Hymenoptera Institute of Kentucky University, coordinator of the Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research (Mae Rim, Thailand); collaboration with K. Yoshizawa (University of Hokkaido) and K. Johnson (Illinois Natural History Survey) on phylogenetic studies of the Psocodea.
list of publications of Charles Lienhard (pdf; 84k)
Volunteer, Honorary Director of the Geneva Museum
Curator of the Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology from 1971 to 1989, and director of the Geneva Museum from 1989 to 2005, now retired.
Research interests: Taxonomy and biogeography of pseudoscorpions.
Current research projects: Systematic and faunistic studies of the pseudoscorpions of South America (Argentinia, Brazil: Mato Grosso); revision of the types of the species described by Luigi Balzan from South America; pseudoscorpions of the Galapagos Islands.
list of publications of Volker Mahnert (pdf; 100k)
curriculum vitae of Volker Mahnert (pdf; 18k)
Research Officer
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lionel.monod[x]ville-ge.ch
B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Geneva in 1998. M.Sc. thesis on the systematics of the genus Liocheles (Scorpiones) at the University of Geneva in 2000. Technical collaborator and research associate at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva from 2000 to 2005. Ongoing Ph.D. on the systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific liochelid scorpions in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at the City University of New York (CUNY) funded by a Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH) under Lorenzo Prendini's supervision. Lecturer at CUNY in 2007-2008. Joined the department in 2009.
Research interests: Systematics and biogeography of the scorpion families Liochelidae and Hemiscorpiidae. Biogeographical analysis using molecular clocks (BEAST) and distribution area modelling (MAXENT).
Current research projects: Taxonomic revision, phylogeny and biogeography of the liochelid scorpions of the Indo-Pacific region based on combined morphological and molecular data. Description of 53 new species belonging to the genus Liocheles, mainly from Australia and Melanesia. Phylogeography of Philippines scorpions in collaboration with Henrik Krehenwinkel (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany). Development of a new nomenclature for pedipalpal carinae in the order Scorpiones, which is consistent across taxa and segments, in collaboration with the Scorpion Systematics Research Group (AMNH).
list of publications of Lionel Monod (pdf, 32k)
Curator
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peter.schwendinger[x]ville-ge.ch
Graduated in 1985 and awarded a doctorate in 1990 from Innsbruck University, Austria (thesis supervisor: Konrad Thaler). Lecturer at Innsbruck University (Institute of Zoology), from 1989 to 1999 and at Chiang Mai University (Departement of Biology) (Thailand) in 1996-1997. Curator since May 1999. Subject editor for the Revue suisse de Zoologie (a journal published by the Geneva Musum and the Swiss Zoological Society) and for Zootaxa.
Research interests: Taxonomy and biology of primitive spiders (especially Mesothelae, Mygalomorphae and Tetrablemmidae) and harvestmen (especially Oncopodidae) of Southeast Asia.
Current research projects: Taxonomic studies on the genus Perania (Tetrablemmidae) and on the genus Nanthela (Liphistiidae), the latter in co-operation with Hirotsugu Ono (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo).
list of publications of Peter Schwendinger (pdf, 45k)
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