Prof. Dr. Gerald Kerth

Loitzer Str. 26
17489 Greifswald

Tel.: +49 (0)3834 420 4100
Fax: +49 (0)3834 420 4252
gerald.kerth(at)uni-greifswald(dot)de

1986 - 1992	Study of Biology ("Diplombiologe") at the University of Würzburg, Germany
1989/90	Graduate study at the Department of Zoology, State University of New York, Albany, USA
1992	Diploma in Biology at the University of Würzburg, Germany - Thesis: “Investigations on the ability of female house mice (Mus domesticus) to discriminate between own and foreign offspring”
May 1998	PhD in Zoology and Genetics at the University of Würzburg, Germany - Thesis: “Social behaviour and genetic population structure of the Bechstein's bat Myotis bechsteinii”, at the Universities of Würzburg and Erlangen, Germany
April 2004	Habilitation in Zoology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland

1994 - 1998	Research assistant at the University of Würzburg
1998 - 2005	Postdoc research associate at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
March 2004	Invited guest professor at the University of Rennes, France
2005 - 2008	Research fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Universities of Groningen, Netherlands, and Lausanne, Switzerland
Oct. - Dec. 2008	Postdoc research associate at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2009 - 2010	Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen
Since Oct. 2010	Professor for Applied Zoology and Conservation at the University of Greifswald

1989	Full scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1998	Award for the PhD thesis: "Deutscher Preis für Wildtierforschung"
2005	Research fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
2008	Heisenberg fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)

Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Spokesperson of the DFG-Research Training Group "GRK 2010: Biological Responses to Novel and Changing Environments (RESPONSE)

Curator of the Stiftung Umwelt- und Naturschutz MV