Dynamics of and are ecological monitoring are significant elements in species protection. The newly appointed ecologist and anthropologist Prof. Hjalmar S. Kühl works at the intersection of these factors. During his university-wide inaugural lecture on November 16, he will take the audience on a journey to our closest relatives: the great apes, their evolution and development, but also to the decline and loss oh their interspecific and cultural diversity. What contribution can science make to their protection?

Prof. Kühl is Head of the Zoology Department and Head of the Section Mammalogy at the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz and has been researching there since 2022. Moreover, he holds the Chair of Vertebrate Zoology at the IHI Zittau of TU Dresden. For more than 20 years, he has been regularly conducting field research in the equatorial countries of Africa, Ruanda, the Ivory Coast and Gabon.

His interdisciplinary research is dedicated to the development of intraspecies and cultural diversity among chimpanzees and bonobos, monitoring the status of great ape populations and wild animals in Europe. He also examines the effectiveness of conservation measures. Prof. Kühl will also report on the importance of field research for the direct protection of species - presence, including presence of scientists, protects our closest relatives and overlapping habitats.

The get-together after the inaugural lecture will provide an opportunity to meet the newly appointed professor in person.

Further information: https://tu-dresden.de/exzellenz/uwil