Florian Raub
Certified Biologist
Bachstr. 33
76316 Malsch
Tel.: ++49-(0)721-175-2820
Mail: florian.raub@smnk.de
February 2005 – September 2006: student apprentice at the SMNK
October 2006 – 2009: Ph.D. student in the SOLOBIOMA project, working with spiders in tropical (secondary) forests and tropical ecology
January 2010 - May 2010: student apprentice at the SMNK
September 2010 - February 2011: freelance biologist doing CMS/Internet consulting
February 2011 - today: research staff at the SMNK, working with scientific databases (IMDAS, DiversityWorkbench)
Diploma thesis: “Activity based density of arthropods in experimentally designed agroforestry systems in central Amazonia” done during the German/Brazilian cooperation project SHIFT in Manaus , Brazil .
Tasks at the SMNK
- Work with scientific collections/databases
- Enhancement and care of the literature databases
- Guidance of museum tours concerning tropical ecology
- Collaboration in conceptual and text design of a new vivarium exposition
- Ph.D. thesis during the SOLOBIOMA project
- Data migration for IMDAS Pro
Scientific interests
- tropical ecology (SHIFT, SOLOBIOMA)
- faunistic classification of secondary habitats of different regrowing forest stages
- (tropical) Araneae Ph.D. thesis during the SOLOBIOMA project
- scientific database systems (MySQL)
- CMS Communication solutions for scientific projects using Drupal