People

Group Leader

• Prof. Dr. Marcelo Sánchez

Lecturer

• Dr. Gabriel Aguirre Fernandez, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrperson der MNF
• Dr. Jorge Domingo Carrillo Briceño, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrperson der MNF
• Dr. Alessandro Urciuoli, Ambizione research group leader

Research Assistant / Research Associates

• MSc Anastasia Sara De Sanctis
• Irina Valeria Etter
• Dr. Analía Forasiepi
• Dr. Thomas Schmelzle
• Dr. Hugo Gustav Schmökel
• MSc Alexandra Wegmann

Postdoctoral

• Dr. Kévin Le Verger, Postdoc
• Dr. Carolin Sommer-Trembo, Postdoc

Doctoral

• MSc Alireza Hakiminejad
• MSc Jack Lucas Norton

Masters

• BSc Joel Gilles Duss
• BSc Theodor Elora Marx
• BSc Irmak Özkaya

Former lab members

• Dr. Eli Amson, Curator, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany
  - Postdoc, 2015
  
• Dr. Thodoris Argyriou, Assistant Professor, American College of Greece
  - PhD student, 2014-2018
  
• Dr. Ana Mercedes Balcarcel, Postdoctoral Fellow at Université de Montpellier
  - scientific Visitor, 2023
  - Postdoc, 2022-2023
  - PhD student, 2018-2022
  
• Dr. Aldo Marcelo Benites Palomino, Akademischer Rat at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  - scientific Visitor, 2025
  - PhD student, 2022-2025
  
• Dr. Constanze Bickelmann, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  - Postdoc, 2011-2012
  
• Prof. Dr. Alfredo Carlini, Faculty Member, La Plata National University, Argentina
  - PhD student, 2008-2010
  
• Dr. Jorge Domingo Carrillo Briceño, Lecturer UZH
  - Postdoc, 2017-2021
  - PhD student, 2013-2017
  
• Dr. Juan Carrillo, PostDoc Position at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
  - PhD student, 2013-2018
  
• MSc Zoe Maria Christen, Collection Managerin Digitalisierung, Natural History Museum Basel
  - Researcher, 2022-2023
  
• Prof. Dr. Massimo Delfino, Professor, University of Turin
  - Postdoc, 2008-2009
  
• Dr. Anne-Claire Fabre, Curator of mammals, Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern
  - Postdoc, 2020-2021
  
• Dr. Linda Frey, Coordinator Bee Care, Wild bee + Partner, Switzerland
  - temporary Staff Member, 2013-2014
  
• Dr. Fernando Galliari, Researcher, CONICET, Museo de La Plata, Argentina
  - PhD student, 2009-2010
  
• Dr. Madeleine Geiger, Curator, Naturmuseum St.Gallen
  - Postdoc, 2018-2022
  - Postdoc, 2016-2017
  - PhD student, 2012-2015
  
• Dr. Laura Heck, Senior Consultant, DHC AG, Switzerland
  - PhD student, 2015-2018
  
• MSc Carlos Manuel Herrera Castillo, PhD Candidate, University of Basel, Switzerland
  - temporary Staff Member, 2020-2021
  
• Dr. Jasmina Hugi, Museum Educator at Münzkabinett Winterthur, Animal Psychology Advisor at VIETA and Daycare Personnel, Switzerland
  - PhD student, 2008-2011
  
• Dr. Evelyn Hüppi, Orniplan
  - PhD student, 2020-2022
  - temporary Staff Member, 2018-2019
  
• Dr. Gabriel Jorgewich Cohen, PostDoc Position at University of Zurich
  - PhD student, 2020-2023
  
• Dr. Ardian Jusufi
  - scientific Visitor, 2022-2025
  
• Dr. Leonardo Kerber, Paleontologist, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
  - Postdoc, 2016
  
• Dr. Christian Kolb, Museum's Director, Municipal Natural History Museum Göppingen, Germany
  - PhD student, 2009-2016
  
• Dr. Daisuke Koyabu, Full Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China
  - Postdoc, 2011-2013
  
• Dr. Sandrine Ladevèze, Research Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, France
  - Postdoc, 2008
  
• MSc Sinéad Lynch, PhD Candidate, University of Lausanne
  - temporary Staff Member, 2020
  
• Prof. Dr. Michael Matschiner, Direktor der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München
  - Postdoc, 2018-2021
  
• Dr. Erin Maxwell, Curator, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany
  - Postdoc, 2012-2013
  
• Dr. Christian Mitgutsch, Staff Member, Natural History Museum of Berlin, Germany
  - Postdoc, 2008-2010
  
• Dr. Germán Montoya, Researcher, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
  - PhD student, 2018
  
• Dr. Hendrik Müller, Curator of Zoology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  - Postdoc, 2007-2008
  
• Dr. Daniel Núñez, University of Southern California, Department of Pathology
  - PhD student, 2016-2021
  
• Prof. Dr. Catalina Pimiento Hernandez, SNF PRIMA Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Principal Investigator, Swansea University, United Kingdom
  - Researcher, 2020-2021
  - Postdoc, 2015-2017
  
• Dr. Gizeh Rangel De Lazaro, Instructor
  - Postdoc, 2023
  
• Dr. Rodolfo Martín Salas Gismondi, Lecturer, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
  - scientific Visitor, 2019
  - Postdoc, 2016
  
• Prof. Dr. Torsten Scheyer, Privatdozent and Principal Investigator, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  - Postdoc, 2007-2013
  
• Dr. Thomas Schmelzle, self-employed, Germany
  - Postdoc, 2020
  
• Dr. Adrian Aldo Soldati
  - Postdoc, 2024-2025
  
• Dr. Madlen Stange, Head of Junior Research Group at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
  - Postdoc, 2017-2018
  - PhD student, 2013-2017
  
• MSc Viviani Thibault
  - temporary Staff Member, 2015-2016
  
• Dr. Kristof Veitschegger, Funding manager for health projects, Austria
  - Postdoc, 2017-2018
  - PhD student, 2014-2017
  
• PD Dr. Ingmar Werneburg, Curator and Senior Lecturer at Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
  - Postdoc, 2013-2014
  - Postdoc, 2010-2011
  - PhD student, 2007-2010
  
• Dr. Laura Wilson, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow
  - Postdoc, 2011-2012
  - PhD student, 2007-2010
  

Past Master students

• MSc Melanie Aeschbach
• Dr. Aldo Marcelo Benites Palomino
• MSc Zoe Maria Christen
• MSc Manuela Fuchs
• Dr. Madeleine Geiger
• MSc Carlos Manuel Herrera Castillo
• Dr. Evelyn Hüppi
• MSc Kimberley Carine Kissling
• MSc Laurelle Küng
• MSc Sinéad Lynch
• MSc Patricia Meier
• Dr. Morana Mihaljevic
• MSc Keesha Martin Ming
• MSc Katja Polachowski
• MSc Lisa Rager
• MSc Anita Schweizer
• Dr. Stephan Spiekman
• MSc Fiona Straehl
• MSc Corinne Wimmer
• BSc Andres Daniel Zurita Altamirano

Pre-Zürich

• Eugene Barrow
• Nadine Boos
• Manuela Döttling
• Prof. Dr. Anjali Goswami
• Martin Grossmann
• Jan Prochel
• Dr. Thomas Schmelzle
• Simone Schmid
• Dr. Vera Weisbecker