Dr. Matthias Schultz
Senior Curator (Herbarium Hamburgense)
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
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Key aspects of activity
- Collection management of Herbarium Hamburgense
- Taxonomy, systematic and evolution of lichens
Research
phylogeny and taxonomy of cyanolichens (in cooperation with Dr. Maria Prieto, Stockholm, funded by Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, running)
Reindeer lichens in the City of Hamburg (cooperation with Behörde für Umwelt und Energie der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg 2016-2017)
lichens of Kenai, Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks, Alaska (coordination: Prof. B. McCune; Oregon State University, Corvallis, J. Walton, Alaska National Park Service, 2013-2016)
lichens of Germany (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. V. Wirth, Murr & Prof. Dr. M. Hauck, Göttingen, book project “Die Flechten Deutschlands” published 2013)
Red List of endangered lichen species of Germany (coordination: Prof. Dr. V. Wirth; supported by Federal Agency for Nature Conservation; book project published 2011)
lichens of Yosemite National Park, California (coordination: Prof. B. McCune; Oregon State University, Corvallis, M. Hutten, Yosemite National Park Service, 2009, finished)
freshwater lichens of Central Europe (in cooperation Dr. H. Thüs, Stuttgart, book project “Freshwater Flora of Central Europe. Fungi. Lichens”, published Dec 2008)
Field work
Namibia (2005, 2006, 2016)
United Arab Emirates and Oman (2004, 2013)
W North America: Alaska, Arizona, Baja California, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas (1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015)
Gotland, Sweden (2013)
Yemen and Socotra (1997, 2001, 2002)
Spain (2000)
Kuwait (1998)
Karelia, Russia (1996, 1997)
Venezuela (1996)
Curriculum vitae
| since Nov 2016 | Senior Curator of the Herbarium Hamburgense |
| 2015–Nov 2016 | Curator of the Herbarium Hamburgense |
| 2005–2015 | postdoctoral researcher at the Herbarium Hamburgense; “HBG Orchid types” project funded by GBIF (H.-H. Poppendieck) and „Herbarium Hamburgense Type Digitization Project“ funded by A.W. Mellon Foundation 2006-2015 (H.-H. Poppendieck & M. Schultz) |
| 2003–2005 | German Science Foundation (DFG) postdoctoral grant “Revision of Lichinella, Peccania and Pterygiopsis in southwest North America“ (SCHU 1493/2-1) |
| 2002–2003 | Visiting Researcher at the Herbarium of the Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona in project “Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert” funded by NSF (T.H. Nash III) |
| 2001 | guest scientist at the Biocenter Klein Flottbek (working group of Prof. Jürgens) |
| 1999 – 2001 | research associate at the Department of Biology of the University of Kaiserslautern in German Science Foundation (DFG) project “Phylogeny and Systematics of the Lichen Family Lichinaceae“ (B. Büdel , BU 666/8-1) |
| Dez. 2000 | defence of doctoral thesis “Systematics of the Lichinaceae: Studies towards a natural classification of the family and genera“ (supervisor Prof. B. Büdel, Univ. Kaiserslautern) |
| 1997–1999 | doctoral scholarship at the Department of Biology of the University of Kaiserslautern |
| 1996 | research associate at the Department of Biology of the University of Rostock |
| 1990 – 1995 | study of biology at the Department of Biology of the University of Rostock (diploma thesis “Study of lichen flora and lichen bioindication in the city of Rostock”) |