Bernhard Misof

Prof. Dr Bernhard Misof is an evolutionary biologist and biodiversity researcher based in Bonn, Germany. Bernhard Misof is the Director General of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), which includes the Museum Koenig Bonn and the Museum of Nature Hamburg. And holds the Chair of “Special Zoology” at the University of Bonn. […]
Dr. Joachim Puhe

In recognition of his international contributions to environmental science and education, Dr. Puhe was appointed Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Medicine of Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 27, 2016. In this role, he has supported teaching and curriculum development for graduate programs in ecology, forestry, and natural resource management, […]
Axel Brandenburg

Professor Axel Brandenburg received his PhD at the University of Helsinki in 1990. After two postdocs at Nordita in Copenhagen and at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder/Colorado, he returned to Nordita as Assistant Professor for just over a year before he went in 1996 as a full Professor of Applied […]
Lia Tsverava

Lia Tsverava got Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of Chemistry and Biology with honours in 2009. In 2012- awarded master’s degree, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, specialization in Molecular biology. In 2019 was conferred the degree of doctor of philosophy in life sciences. Since 2017 Lika is a researcher at Institute of Chemical Biology of Ilia […]
Hein Nils

Nils Hein is an experienced project coordinator and scientist specializing in ecology, biogeography and physical geography. From 2020 to 2024 he was the project coordinator for the Caucasus Barcode of Life Project (CaBOL). Previously, he was Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2019 to 2020. In 2014, he […]
Medea Zirakishvili

Medea Zirakashvili, MD, has been working as a child and adolescents’ psychiatrist since 2012. Before this she was specialized in child neurology at the department of neurosciences of the M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital. In 2008 she completed six-months training course under the supervision of Professor Stefano Vicari at the neuropsychiatric Unit of the pediatric […]
Frank Thomas Bohlander

Prof. Dr. Frank Bohlander was born in 1968 in West-Germany. He studied forest management at Ludwigs-Maximillians-University (LMU) Munich, where he received his diploma in 1993. He then worked as an assistant and Ph.D. candidate as the chair of Animal Ecology (LMU). He received his doctorate (summa cum laude) in 1997, “On the energetic status of […]
Veriko Mirtskhulava
Leonid Margolisi
Mariam Gabelaia

2013 – obtained a master’s degree in Ecology from Ilia State University. In 2019, received a Ph.D. degree in Life Sciences (at Ilia State University) and Biology (at Ghent University, Belgium) through a joint degree program. In 2020 became the recipient of the Margaret Koenig post-doctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of […]