The department holds internationally recognized scientific collections of more than two million specimens of animals, fungi, plants and minerals, as well as living collections at the University Gardens. Our staff performs leading research in the fields of biodiversity, systematics, evolution, palaeozoology, palaeoecology and geology, with associated collection activities. We also teach courses given at other institutes at the university and the Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio).
Upcoming:
1st ICAZ Medieval Period Workshop
Open Positions Department of Natural History
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
- PhD position in Political Science (3 years)
- PhD Research Fellow in organic synthesis / organic chemistry
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow position within Medical Physics
- Researcher in carbonate clumped isotope paleoceanography