Staff and contacts
Both researchers, collection assistants and curators work at the Department of Zoology.
Staff in the Department of Zoology, 2017. Photo: Bengt Olofsson
Addresses
Shipping
Department of Zoology
Swedish Museum of Natural History
P.O. Box 50007
SE-104 05 Stockholm
Billing
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Reference 2204
FE 7727
SE-831 30 ÖSTERSUND
Contact persons
E–mail address is written as firstname.surname@nrm.se
Head of Department
Kjell Arne Johanson, 08-5195 4088
Assistant Head of Department
Lena Gustavsson, 08-5195 5160
Secretary
Ann-Katrin Gustafsson, 08-5195 4102
Collections
Tobias Malm, 08-5195 4124
Staff
Niklas Apelqvist Curator. Insect collection, Swedish Coleoptera, contact person for amateur entomologists. Entomology collection coordinator
Sarah Atherton Researcher. Research on Macrostomorpha.
Johannes Bergsten Senior curator. Research on phylogeny and systematics of beetles (Coleoptera) Special interest in the aquatic beetle fauna of Madagascar.
Bo Delling Curator. Collection care fish, fish research, in charge of wet collection and X-ray facilities
Mattias Forshage Senior assistant. Collection care, mainly type specimens and cnidarians. History of our collections.
Anna Gauffin Senior assistant. Collection care of mammals and birds. Loans on Chelicerata.
Ann-Katrin Gustafsson Secretary, financial administration
Lena Gustavsson Senior curator. Assistant Head of Department. Responsible for TEM, slide and Annelida collections, research on Clitellata. Invertebrate collection coordinator.
Andrea Hennyey Senior assistant. Fishbase administrator. Responsible for the Library.
Oleksandr Holovachov Senior curator. Taxonomy and distribution of free-living nematodes of the order Plectida in Sweden
Rasmus Hovmöller (on leave of absence) Senior assistant. responsible for the collection of Crustacea and the entomology library.
Ulf Johansson Curator. Research on bird evolution and biogeography. Responsible for bird collection. Teaching in bird systematics and evolution.
Kjell Arne Johanson Professor. Head of department, research on Trichoptera
Ulf Jondelius Professor. Research on Platyhelminthes
Daniela Kalthoff Curator. Scientifically responsible for mammal collection. Research on extant and fossil mammals, teaching
Gunvi Lindberg Senior assistant. Collection care of Hemiptera and slide collection (Acari, Insecta).
Anna Lotsander Responsible for incoming swedish wildlife material.
Tobias Malm Curator, Collection Manager. General collection care. Curation of Lepidoptera and Trichoptera collections
Peter Mortensen Curator. Collection care mammals and birds.
Peter Nilsson Senior assistant. Preparation and collection care birds and mammals
Michael Norén Curator. Phylogenetic analyses, fish taxonomy, administrates the Swedish FishBase web server
Anna Persson Senior assistant. Vertebrate collection coordinator. Loans of molluscs and sponges.
Hiie Silberfeldt Senior asistant. Registration and loans from the crustacean collection.
Tin Sjöberg Scientific illustrator. Detail pictures of Swedish Caddisflies species (Trichoptera).
Julia Stigenberg (on leave of absence) Senior assistant. Research on Braconidae, Euphorinae, phylogenetic analyses, taxonomy, morphology, teaching
Sabine Stöhr Senior curator. Research on brittle stars, administration of databases, responsible for echinoderm collections
Carina Svensson Laboratory assistant. TEM and histological preparation
Hege Vårdal Curator. Collection care on Hymenoptera, teaching, Hymenoptera research
Erik Åhlander Senior assistant. Fish and herptile collections, history of our collections.
Emeriti
Bo Fernholm research on hagfish. Krill andfish around Antactica. Whales.
Sven Kullander Research Fish.
PhD students, postdocs
Mohammed Ahmed Postdoc. Research on roundworms.
Samuel Abalde Lago Postdoc.
Meri Lähteenaro PhD.
Bruna Calavante PhD
Emma Wahlberg Postdoc. Research on Thrips
Chahinez Bouguerche Postdoc.
Mihaly Foldvary Postdoc.
Associates
Sven Boström Research on roundworms
Yngve Brodin Diptera collections, research Chironomidae (Diptera, Insecta), pest insects
Christian Bäckstam Research on Arachnida
Julio Ferrer Research on darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)
Olavi Grönwall Mammal skeleton collection
Bert Gustafsson Research and collection care on butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera)
Torbjörn Kronestedt Research on Arachnida
Anders Warén Research on Mollusca
Raul Vicente Spiders
Hans Erik Wanntorp Beetles
Torbjörn Ramqvist Beetles
Julia Stigenberg Wasps
Rasmus Hovmöller Strepsiptera
William Englund Beetles