Julia Kasper
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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]
