Katrin Vohland
Dr. Katrin Vohland is Director General of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM Vienna), Austria. Her main research interest is in the interface between science and different public audiences including policy. She develops Open Science strategically for the collections, the museum and beyond, including Citizen Science where she is active to employ integrative and reflective approaches.For her Diploma at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Katrin did a thesis on biocontrol of a ladybird, and for her PhD in biology from the University of Kiel, she worked with the Max-Planck Institute for Limnology and the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA) in the Amazon on speciation processes. At the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact (PIK) research she coordinated a project dealing with climate change and nature conservation, and at the the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research (MfN), Germany, she was head of the Research Department “Museum and Society”.
