Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa was born in Konigstein, Germany in 1966.He followed his passion for zoology by studying in Giessen and Gottingen (Germany), where he received his PhD in 1996. He worked as a PostDoc in Pittsburgh and Tampa (USA) and as assistant researcher at the Universities of Bielefeld and
Braunschweig. Currently in the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Bielefeld, he is about to take up a position as the Curator at the Zoological Museum at the University of Hamburg.