Dr.
Katrin Vohland
Director General/ CEO
Since 1.6.2020
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and Director General of the Natural History Museum Vienna.
Born: 29.09.1968
in Hamburg, Germany. Married, three children
Professional and scientific career
Professional and scientific career
- Since 1.6.2020: Director General and Scientific Director at the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM Vienna)
- 2014-2020 (May) Head of the research area "Museum and Society" at the Museum of Natural History - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research (MfN)
- 2012-2013 Collaboration in the staff of the Museum of Natural History - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research (MfN)
- 2009-2012: Coordination of the project Network and Forum on Biodiversity Research Germany (BMBF) at the Museum of Natural History - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research (MfN)
- 2006-2009: Coordination of the project Protected Areas of Germany in Climate Change - Risks and Options for Action (BfN) at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- 2005-2006: Scientist in BIOTA (Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa); S09 (Structural, functional, and species diversity in semiarid savannas of southern Africa: scaling up and model based integration) (BMBF) at the University of Potsdam, Chair of Vegetation Ecology and Nature Conservation
- 2004: Organization and preparation of a pan-African workshop on more efficient use of rainwater (Rain Water Harvesting; Volkswagen Foundation) at the Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Geography, Chair of Landscape Ecology
- 2000-2004: Coordination of the project BIOTA (Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa), S07 (BMBF) at the Museum of Natural History - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research (MfN)
- 1999-2000: Curriculum development for the Master's Programme "Biodiversity Management and Research", Namibia and Berlin, at the Museum of Natural History - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research (MfN)
- 1995-1999: PhD on Adaptation and Speciation of Millipedes (Diplopoda) in the Amazonian Floodplain Forest (PhD) (DAAD + Max Planck Scholarship) Max Planck Institute for Limnology Plön, AG Tropical Ecology /INPA (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia), Manaus / Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel
- 1993-1994: Diploma in Biology; University of Bayreuth, Chair of Animal Ecology
- 1989-1991: Basic studies in biology; University of Bielefeld
- 1988-1989 AEG Sondertechnik Luft- und Raumfahrt Hamburg, training as Industrial electronics technician, specialising in instrument engineering (not completed)
- 1988 A-levels, Ernst-Schlee Grammar School, Hamburg
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board "Hohe Tauern", Österreich
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board "Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change" (LIB), Germany
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board der Bavaraian Natural History Collections (SNSB)
Director General's Office
Berndl Sabina
Assistant to the CFO
Fischer Philip
Project coordinator Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Graf Lukas
Project researcher
Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Kiesel Megumi
Project Administration; Herbarium Assistance
Kroh Andreas
Vice CEO Science; staff scientist; head of the NHM Vienna publishing
house
Lechner Amelie
apprentice assistant to the CFO
Lhotak Elke
Deputy CFO; proxy; head of human resources and legal affairs
Mayer Thomas
Provenance research
Palacz Julian
Deputy project
coordinator Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Pirgie Gregor
Project researcher
Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Rattner Gerlinde
administrative assistant of the CFO
Roboch Markus
Chief Financial Officer
Schmidbauer Sonja
Project
researcher Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Unterhofer Sebastian
Project researcher Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Weiß Elisabeth
Project researcher
Relaunch "Kulturpool"
Wölfel Katharina
Research Coordination
