Stephan Härtel: Curriculum Vitae

Academic education and professional carrier

since 5/2008
Postdoc, Animal Ecology I, Population Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany

10/2007-12/2007
Visiting researcher, USDA-ARS Beltsville, USA
Research topic: Adaptive colony defense and self organization processes of honeybee workers against larvae of the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida.
Principal Collaborator: Dr. Jeff S. Pettis

12/2006-04/2008
Postdoc at Molecular Ecology Group, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

12/2006 PhD thesis: “Evolution of intraspecific social parasitism in honeybee workers (Apis mellifera capensis Esch).” Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, pp144.
Advisor: PD Dr. Peter Neumann

01/2004-02/2004
Visiting researcher, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa,
Principal Collaborator: Prof. Randall Hepburn

01/2003-03/2003
Visiting researcher, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Principal Collaborator: Prof. Robin Crewe

01/2002-04/2002
Visiting researcher, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Principal Collaborator: Prof. Randall Hepburn

2001 - 2006
PhD-project, association with Molecular Ecology Group, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. (DFG)
Research topic: “Evolution of worker social parasitism in honeybees Apis mellifera capensis”
Advisor: PD Dr. Peter Neumann

05/2001-06/2001
Visiting researcher, University of California Davis, USA
Research topic: Honeybee genetics and evolution of sex determination pathways,
Principal Collaborator: Prof. Robert Page

2000 - 2001
Research position, Department of Molecular Ecology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Research topic: “Evolution of the sex determination pathway of honeybees”
Advisor: Dr. Martin Beye

12/2000 Diploma thesis: “Mapping of QTLs for the post capping period of drones Apis mellifera”. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, pp60.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Robin Moritz

1994 – 2000
Studies of biology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Principal subjects: Zoology, Genetics, Biochemistry and Botany