Curriculum Vitae Stefan Merker

2023	"Habilitation" (Venia Legendi; ~teaching licence) for zoology at the University of Hohenheim
2013 - today	Curator of Mammals, Head of Zoology Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
2009 - 2013	Senior research scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt
2005 - 2008	Postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Anthropology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
2008	3-month field study on Central Sulawesi tarsiers, Indonesia
2005 - 2006	8-month field study on Dian's and Lariang tarsiers in Sulawesi, Indonesia
2003 - 2005	Postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Anthropology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; funded through European Union (project INPRIMAT)
2003	Ph.D. in Biology; Thesis: "Endangered or adaptable? - Dian's tarsier Tarsius dianae in Sulawesi's rain forests"; Centre for Nature Conservation, Georg-August University Goettingen; Doctoral advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Muehlenberg; Ph.D. Scholarships from German Academic Exchange Service and German National Academic Foundation
2000 - 2001	15-month field study on Dian's tarsiers in Sulawesi, Indonesia
1999	M.Sc. in Biology; Thesis: "The influence of traditional land-use forms on population densities of Dian's tarsier Tarsius dianae in the rain forest of Sulawesi"; Centre for Nature Conservation, Georg-August University Goettingen; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Muehlenberg
1998	6-month field study on Dian's tarsiers in Sulawesi, Indonesia; grants from German National Academic Foundation and German Primatological Society
1993 - 1999	Studies of biology at Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Concentrations: conservation biology, zoology, population biology, primatology, vertebrate ecology, tropical ecology
1990 - 1992	Institute for the Preparation to Study Abroad, Halle/Saale, Germany