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	Dr Peter Jäger  Head of Arachnology Fax: 069/746238  e-mail Taxonomy, systematics, zoogeography, and evolution of huntsman spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) Spiders in Laos Functional analysis of copulatory organs Neozoa in Central Europe
	Julia Altmann Technical Assistent Tel. 069/7542-1336 e-mail Spiders in Germany and Europe Wildcats in Germany, Bats worldwide
	DR. Steffen Bayer Research Associate e-mail Project staff, collection management
	M.Sc. Majid Moradmand PH.D. e-mail Revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) with morphological and molecular methods.
	Maryam Rajabi Master Student   Investigations on the relative size of male copulatory organs in true spiders (Arachnida: Araneae).
	Cand. M.Sc. Elena Grall  Master Student e-mail What calls a nesticid a cave? Investigations on Nesticidae in Laos (Arachnida: Araneae).
	Cand. M.Sc. Liphone Nophasead  Master Student e-mail: Spiders in forests in Odoumxai Province, Laos (Arachnida: Araneae).
	Ben Mayer Project Staff   • Investigations on the relative size of female copulatory organs in true spiders (Arachnida: Araneae).
	Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens Honorary Research Associate e-mail Bioacoustics of birds as evolutionary factor Biodiversity in the Nepal-Himalaya Systematics and Phylogeny of Arachnida
	Dr. Manfred Grasshoff Honorary Research Associate e-mail Evolutionary Reserach 'Konstruktions-Morphologie' Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution of Araneidae
	Dr. Axel Schönhofer Research Associate e-mail Revision of Trogulidae) Taxonomy and Systematics of Opiliones in Central Europe, South Africa and the Americas Presently: Project staff, collection management
	Dr. Reinhard Gerecke Research Associate e-mail Taxonomy, Systematics, Ecology and Zoogeography of Hydrachnidia.

ALUMNI

Steffen Bayer (2007-2013)
- Cave-dwelling Heteropoda species from Laos (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) – A combined morphological-molecular analysis to elucidate species limits (Diploma, University Marburg).
- Revision of the spider family Psechridae (Arachnida: Araneae): biodiversity research and phylogeny with moprhological and molecular methods (Dissertation, University, Frankfurt am Main).

Pascal Eusemann (2006) Taxonomic revision of Heteropoda tetrica Thorell 1897 (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) - With Notes on variability and geographic distribution (Diploma, University Mainz)

Rory Jaekel (2011) Faunistic ecological investigations on Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in alluvial forests in the "Unteres Kinzigtal" (South Hesse). (Diploma, University Trier)

Markus Kaufmann (2007): Ecofaunistic analysis of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Rhine islet "Grün" with a detailed introduction to the general biology of spiders. (State Examination thesis, University Koblenz-Landau)

Henrik Krehenwinkel (2007) Taxonomic studies on Heteropoda languida (Araneae: Sparassidae) from SE Asia. (Practical Training, University Bochum)

Dirk Kunz (2003-2006) GBIF-Project "Registration of Type Material". Sparassidae of South Africa and Namibia (DAAD).

Thomas Noergaard (2007-2008) Comparative investigations on the nest-building behaviour of two desert-dwellering huntsman spiders: Leucorchestris arenicola from Namibia and Cebrennus villosus from Tunisia (Araneae: Sparassidae). (Post-Doc) (DAAD)

Matthias Reinke (2006) Microscopical natomy of copulatory organs of true spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) based on various histological methods. (Diploma, University Frankfurt am Main)

Cristina A. Rheims (2007) Análise cladística dos gêneros de Sparassidae Bertkau (Arachnida, Aranea). (Dissertation, Universidade de Sao Paulo).

Frederik Steinmetz (2007) Studies on a Heteropoda species by means of morphology, ecology and courtship behaviour(Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). (Diploma, Free University Berlin)

Vincent Vedel (2004-2005) Sparassidae (Heteropodinae) in South and Southeast Asia.

Blerina Vrenozi (2010-2012) Taxonomische und ökologische Untersuchungen an Webspinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) in Albanien (Tirana District) (Dissertation, Universität Tirana, Albania) (DAAD)