Joachim T. Haug
Image: Felix Albertin for Volkswagen Foundation
Employment history
since 01/04/2023:
tenured full professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
since 01/04/2018:
Lichtenberg professor at the LMU Munich funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
05/10/2015 – 31/03/2018:
Akademischer Rat (equivalent to Assistant professor) in the work group Starck (Functional Morphology) at the LMU Munich
01/09/2013 – 04/10/2015:
Research assistant (Postdoc) at the LMU Munich in the project "Palaeo-Evo-Devo of Malacostraca – a key to the evolutionary history of "higher" crustaceans" funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG HA 6300/3-1)
01/05/2013 – 31/08/2013:
Research assistant (Postdoc) at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald in the project "Palaeo-Evo-Devo of Malacostraca – a key to the evolutionary history of "higher" crustaceans" funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG HA 6300/3-1)
01/06/2012 – 30/04/2013:
Feodor-Lynen-Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald with a return fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation;
Projects: "Burgess Shale arthropods" and "Fossil preservation of eye structures"
01/06/2011 – 31/05/2012:
Feodor-Lynen-Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, New Haven (USA) funded by Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation;
Project: “Ontogeny (development) of half a billion years old fossil species from the Burgess Shale – A key to the evolutionary history of arthropods”
01/04/2011 – 31/05/2011:
Research assistant (Postdoc) at the University of Ulm
01/04/2008 – 31/03/2011:
Research assistant (2 years Postdoc, 1 year PhD student) at the University of Ulm;
Project “Cambrian arthropods and their contribution to the phylogeny of Arthropoda“ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Wa 754/15-1)
01/12/2007 – 31/03/2008:
Research assistant (PhD student) at the University of Ulm
01/12/2005 – 31/11/2007:
Research assistant (PhD student) in DFG-SPP 1174 “Deep Metazoan Phylogeny“ (DFG Wa 738/11-1) at the University of Ulm
Academic education
15/01/2020:
Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
09/02/2009:
PhD with highest honour (summa cum laude); title of dissertation: “Arthropod Ontogeny – Fossil Record of Development and 4-Dimensional Data (Morphological Changes during Ontogeny) in Phylogenetic Systematics“
20/02/2006:
Start of PhD project at the workgroup for Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm; supervisor: Prof. Dr. D. Waloßek
31/08/2005:
Receipt of diploma certificate; mark 1.25 (A); title of diploma thesis: “Effects of training on the flight musculature of insects exemplified on the European beewolf Philanthus triangulum
(Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)“; supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Strohm
1999 – 2005:
Studies of biology (Diplom) at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Main subject: Animal ecology and tropical biology
1st subsidiary subject: Behavioural physiology and sociobiology
2nd subsidiary subject: Palaeontology
01/10/1998 – 27/01/1999:
Studies of biochemistry at the University of Bielefeld
Scholarships, awards, third-party funds
2024
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 6300/12-1) for 3 years (404,998 €)
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Bavaria (INST 86/2300-1 FUGG) for fluorescence microscope (200,000 €)
2023
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 6300/10-1) for 3 years (249,150 €)
- Lichtenberg professorship Volkswagen Foundation, 2nd phase (410,600 €)
- Grant via the LMUexcellent Investment Fund (50,000 €)
- Beamtime and travel grants at DESY, Hamburg (1,000 €)
2022
- External funding for the Horizon Europe project „PlasticUnderground“ (101072777 HORIZON-MSCA-DN-2021) for 3 years (c. 260,000 €)
2021
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 6300/3-3) for 3 years (259,330 €)
- Beamtime and travel grants at DESY, Hamburg (1,000 €)
2020
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 6300/6-1) for 3 years (274,450 €)
2019
- Beamtime and travel grants at DESY, Hamburg (1,000 €)
2018
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (co-proposer, ME 2683/10-1) for 3 years (184,000 €)
- Lichtenberg professorship of the Volkswagen Foundation for 5 years (ca. 1.2 million €)
2017
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 6300/3-2) for 3 years (221,000 €)
2015
- Grant via the LMUexcellent Investment Fund (40,000 €)
2014
- EU-Synthesys scholarship (FR-TAF-5175) for three research weeks at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris (2800 €)
- LMU teaching grant in the BioPlus program together with C. Haug (770€)
2013
- EU-Synthesys scholarship (GB-TAF-4001) for three research weeks at the Natural History Museum in London (7300 €)
- External funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 6300/3-1) for 3 years (390,000 €)
2012
- EU-Synthesys scholarship (FR-TAF-2590) for three research weeks at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris (2500 €)
- Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (45,500 €)
- R.J.H. Hintelmann Scientific Award of the "Freunde der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München e.V." (5000 €)
2011
- Horst-Wiehe-Award of the German Zoological Society (2000 €)
- Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (43,000 €)
2009
- Tilly-Edinger-Award of the German Palaeontological Society (2500 €)
- Bernhard-Rensch-Award of the Society for Biological Systematics
(1000 €)
- PhD with summa cum laude
2008
- EU-Synthesys scholarship (GB-TAF-4733) for two research weeks at the Natural History Museum in London (7800 €)
- Travel expenses for beamtime at synchrotron BESSY, Berlin (250 €)
2007
- Start-up funding of the Rudolf and Clothilde Eberhardt-Foundation
(5000 €)
- Travel expenses for beamtime at synchrotron BESSY, Berlin (250 €)
2006
- EU-Synthesys scholarship (DK-TAF-2652) for three research weeks at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen (2400 €)
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