Karl Eduard Linsenmair#
| Membership Number: | 1821 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2008 Professor Emeritus, Senior Professor
- 1976 - 2008 Chair for "Animal Ecology" (Zoology III) at the Zoological Institute; later: "Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology" at the Theodor-Boveri-Institute for Biological Sciences (Biocenter) at the University of Würzburg)
- 1972 - 1976 "Privatdozent" and Professor for Zoology ("Wiss. Rat und Professor", (HS2)) at Regensburg University
- 1971 Habilitation.
- 1970 - 1972 Scientific Assistant ("Wissenschaftlicher Assistent") within the Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine at the University of Regensburg
- 1967 - 1970 Teaching Assistant at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Frankfurt. Research Assistant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) at the Zoological Institute of the University of Frankfurt.
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociobiology
- Tropical biology
- Orientation physiology
- Behavioral ecology
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Körber European science award
- 1997 Member of the Leopoldina
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europea
- 2008 Honorary Fellow of the „Society of Tropical Ecology“(GTÖ)
- 2009 Honorary Fellow of „The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation“ (ATBC, USA)
- 2014 Medal of merit 'Bene merenti' in gold, awarded by the University of Wuerzburg
