Hege Vårdal

Hege Vårdal

Curator

Contact


Phone: +46 (0)8 519 551 34
E-mail: hege.vardal@nrm.se
Address

Assignment
Curation and loans of Hymenoptera collection. Teaching various courses on insects given at the museum and by Stockholm university.

Area of research
Morphological evolution in gall wasps and insect-parasitic relatives. Venom gland system in Cynipoidea: Morphology and function. Comparative studies of eggs and larvae in parasitic wasps (Cynipoidea, Chalcidoidea). Speciality: Wasps, especially Cynipoidea

Education


Post doctoral researcher at Florida State University, USA (2005-2006). PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden (2004). M. Sc. at University of Bergen, Norway (1997).

Field experience


Sweden, Norway, Ghana, Thailand, Spain, USA (Florida)

Publications


List of publications
Page updated: 2010-06-16
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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