Senckenberg
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt (SENCKENBERG) 🇩🇪
Frankfurt am Main is the headquarters location of Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN). It is the home of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, which also comprises the research stations Weimar, Gelnhausen, and the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Messel Pit.”
The study of biocultural evolution and human diversity has emerged as a core competence of the Palaeoanthropology Division of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt. The joint research of the Division of Palaeoanthropology focuses on processes and factors influencing the biocultural evolution of humans in their interactions with the environment. This concept has been developed over the past 10 years and integrates the biological and cultural diversity of humans. The aim is a systemic understanding and a concentrated presentation and coordination of the research focus biocultural diversity.
Dr. Ottmar Kullmer 🇩🇪
PD Dr. Ottmar Kullmer is the Head of the Division of Palaeoanthropology in the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt in Germany. He holds a venia legendi in Zoology at the Faculty of Biosciences in the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2003 and 2004 he was visiting professor at the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Vienna in Austria. He is educated with a diploma in geology and palaeontology from the Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
Since 1992 he has been involved in palaeoanthropological fieldwork on human evolution at various sites in Eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Malawi. He operates a virtual imaging laboratory for morphometry and functional analysis focusing on research in human palaeobiomics.