Julia Kasper | |
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 Kasper in 2019 | |
| Born | Julia Kasper |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology, taxonomy |
| Institutions | Te Papa |
| Thesis | Examinations of decomposition-processes and the olfactory sense of the necrophagous fly Lucilia caesar (L.) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in relationship to the fly’s physiological state (2013) |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Kasper |
Julia Kasper is a New Zealand entomologist specialising in Diptera. [1] [2] As of 2022, she is the lead invertebrate curator at New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa. [3] As part of her work Kasper is assisting with a citizen science project informing a national mosquito census. [4] Kasper previously worked as the principal entomologist at the New Zealand Biosecure Laboratory. [5] She has also undertaken work in forensic entomology assisting the New Zealand police and coroners with cases. [6] Prior to living in New Zealand, she worked at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. [7] Kasper obtained her doctorate at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2013. [8]
She is a member of the New Zealand Entomological Society and, as of 2022, serves as the President of its Wellington branch. [9]
