Jörn Köhler (born 23 June 1970 in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
) is a German
herpetologist
Herpetology (from Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (Gymnophiona)) and reptiles (in ...
. He studied biology at the
University of Bonn
The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...
and received a Ph.D. in zoology in 2000, being associated with the ''
Zoologische Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig'', Bonn. His main research focus is on taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, biogeography and ecology of tropical amphibians and reptiles, mainly in South America and Africa. He is the founder o
BIOPATin 1999. From 2007 to 2013 he was member of the steering committee of the German Herpetological Society
DGHT and is Chief Editor o
SALAMANDRA - German Journal of Herpetology
Since 2005, he has worked as researcher and curator for vertebrate zoology at the ''
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt'' and has published articles in various scientific journals.
[http://www.hlmd.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen_Dr_Koehler.pdf ]
References
External links
ResearchgateWorldCat
1970 births
Living people
Scientists from Göttingen
German herpetologists
University of Bonn alumni
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