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Angelika Brandt

Angelika Brandt
Zoological Museum Hamburg
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Angelika Brandt studied education, biology and English, and passed a research diver’s examination at the University of Oldenburg. Her first thesis on the ultrastructure of an isopod‘s sensory organ and her dissertation thesis on the origin of Antarctic Isopoda were awarded by the ministry for science and technology. Her post-doc started in 1992 in the Institute for Polar Ecology in Kiel, where she studied community patterns and particle flux in the European Northern Seas. Angelika joined 12 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic including a Brazilian-German diving expedition in 1989/90 on King George Island (South Shetland Islands). In December 1995 Angelika Brandt became professor at the University of Hamburg and since 2004 she is the head of the Zoological Museum. In 1998 she organized an international student excursion to Greenland. Her science focuses on systematics, evolution, ecology, biogeography and biodiversity of peracarid crustaceans in the deep sea and polar regions.