department of evolutionary biology
Dr. Erich Eder
Scientific topics:
Hydrobiology (temporary waters)
Large Branchiopods ("primeval shrimps"): distribution, ecology, morphology (SEM)
Criticism of pseudo- and parascientific profiteering (e.g. Grander water)
Science didactics vs. paranormal belief
Research and Teaching:
Teaching at the University of Vienna (ecology of the native fauna, conservation biology, outdoor didactics)
and at Austrian Pedagogic High Schools (experimental learning, research
training, skeptical thinking, biology of flood plains)
Scientific and popular scientific publication list
Member of DZG, ABA, and TCS
former Vice president of the Gesellschaft für kritisches Denken (GWUP Austria)
Encouragement
Prize of the City of Vienna for Science and National Education, 2004
2002/2003: Guest Scientist at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Theodor-Körner-Award for Science and Arts, 1999
Conservational activities:
Public Engagement for Large Branchiopods and Crayfish
Successful protection of Nature Reserves in Eastern Austria
Board Member of the Naturschutzbund NÖ
Josef Schöffel Prize for Merits in Nature Conservation, 2008
Books:
Urzeitkrebse Österreichs - Primeval Shrimps (1996, sold out)
Flusskrebse Österreichs - Austrian Crayfish (1998)
Catalogus Novus Faunae Austriae (2003)
(1998): pp. 
