Former PhD students:
Name Institution Topic
  Peter Kohnert

Zoologische Staatssammlung München

 Survey on ophistobranch gastropod in the Gulf of Aqaba with special focus on mesopsammic species
  Julien Millet

Museum fuer Naturkunde (MfN) - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
at the Humboldt University Berlin

 Ecological stability of mollusc communities of Indo-Pacific Quaternary coral reefs.
  Heike Mewis

Museum fuer Naturkunde (MfN) - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
at the Humboldt University Berlin

 Community ecology of Indo-Pacific coral reefs during Pleistocene climatic fluctuations.
  Roland Krone Alfred Wegener Institute für Polar und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven. The defecation behaviour of Ctenochaetus striatus
  Andrea Crowther University of Kansas, Natural History Museum Taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of sea anemones possessing branched outgrowth and spherical defensive structures
Stefan Ober Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart The dragonflies of the Sinai Peninsula
Sabrina Bleidissel Bergische Universität Wuppertal The swapped symbiont: Molecular identification of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the nudibranch seaslugs (Nudibranchia; Mollusca)