Dr
Frank-T. Krell
Photo: Vicky Dawe
Overview
Dr Frank-Thorsten Krell is
Curator of Entomolgy at the Denver
Museum of Nature and Science and editor of 'Systematic
Entomology'. He is an expert of scarab beetles (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeoidea) and has published over 120
papers mainly on this group.
Summary of Research
and Education
He started his career at the
age of ten in Germany by relocating insects from the nearby
meadow into the family home and pinning them on a piece of
cardboard. This has never stopped although the techniques became
more sophisticated and the home changed frequently as usual
with a scientific career. He studied biology and palaeontology
in Tübingen where
he gained his diploma in 1992 with a phylogenetic revision
of the rhinoceros beetle genus Temnorhynchus (conserved
by the ICZN) and his PhD in 1996 about functional morphology
of cockchafer genitalia, genus Melolontha (conserved
by the ICZN). He moved on to the Institute
of Animal Ecology and Tropical Zoology of Würzburg
University where he led a project on the diversity of dung
beetles in Cöte d'Ivoire, West Africa, discovered his
wife and dung beetle collaborator Sylvia Westerwalbesloh and
married. After a year at the Zoological Research Institute
and Museum Alexander
Koenig in Bonn, he left Germany in 2000 for The
Natural History Museum in London, and in early 2007 moved
to Denver Museum of
Nature and Science where he continues his work on taxonomy,
systematics, diversity and palaeontology of scarab beetles.
Contact details
Dr Frank-T. Krell
Curator of Entomology
Editor, Systematic Entomology
Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Department of Zoology
Denver Museum of Nature and Science,
2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver, CO 80205-5798 USA
Tel. +1 303.370-8244
Fax +1 303.331.6492
E-mail: frank.krell (at) dmns (dot) org
http://myprofile.cos.com/ftkrell
