Dr. Werner Holzinger, FRES

Biologist, Managing Director

Key activities

• Project management
• Environment Impact Assessments (EIA)
• Species and natura 2000 site assessments
• Mitigation monitoring and implementation
• Specialist in Entomology (leaf- and planthoppers, dragonflies) and Herpetology

Educational background

• Master in Biology/Botany (1992)
• PhD in Biology/Zoology (1996)
• Habilitation for Zoology (Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 2010)
• Court surveyor for nature conservation and ecology

Science and teaching

• Research projects and professional publications about the taxonomy and phylogeny of cixiid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) and about the taxonomy and ecology of European cicadas
• Lecturer at the Institute for biology at the Karl-Franzens-University (Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Nature and species conservation, Field methods in animal ecology)

Other

• Vicepresident of the Entomological Society of Austria (ÖEG) - LINK
• General secretary of the International Auchenorrhyncha Society (IAS) - LINK
• Member of the executive committee of the “Study Group Auchenorrhyncha” (DgaaE/German Society of general and applied Entomology) - LINK
• Award of the Entomological Society of Austria (ÖEG) for the book “Die Zikaden Mitteleuropas, Band 1: Fulgomorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae" (2004) (Cicadas of Middle Europe, Vol. 1.: Fulgomorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae)