Mag.
Katharina Stefke
Assistant to the head of the collection
- sorting out owl pellets
- identifying and organizing specimens
- collection database
- faunistics of mammals in Austria
- library

- Since 2007 Assistance of the Mammal Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna
- 2001 - 2010 Academic studies on biology and zoology at the University of Vienna
- 2008-2010 Diploma thesis: Non invasive monitoring of corticosterone metabolites in faeses of japanese quail and chicken. At the Konrad Lorenz Research Station in cooperation with the institute of biochemistry at the Vet. Med. University of Vienna
- September 2009: Summer School at the IZW in Berlin on "Non invasive monitoring of hormones"
- Since 2010: Hairanalysis on wildcats for the National Park Thayatal
- Summer 2010 & 2011: Project on dispersal, habitat selection, population density and ecology of Microtus bavaricus for the conservation bureau of Tyrol, in cooperation with Simon Engelberger
- 2011: On request volunteer of the Central Europe Poject "European Lakes Under Environmental Stressors" working on verification of Microtus oeconomus. Project executing organisation: Austrian Conservation Association, Burgenland; Agent Dr. B. Herzig
- 2014 to 2015 & 2017: Ground suirrel mapping for Vienna on behalf of MA 22.
- 2019 Plattform Wildkatze
- L. Landler & K. Stefke (2021): Long-term monitoring of common spadefoot toad activity in a European steppe using barn owl pellets, Journal of Biological Research - Thessaloniki 28, Article Number 4.
- K. Stefke & L. Landler (2020): Long-term monitoring of rodent and shrew communities in a biodiversity hot-spot in Austria using barn owl (Tyto alba) pellets, Acta oecologica 109.
- A. Corduneanu, A. D. Sándor, A. M. Ionica, S. Hornok, N. Leitner, Z. Bagó, K. Stefke, H.-P. Führer & A. D. Mihalca (2018): BArtonella DNA in heart tissues of bats in central and eastern Europe and a review of phylogenetic relations of bat-associated bartonellae, Parasites & Vectors, 11: 489.
- A. Corduneanu, K. Hrazdilová, A. D. Sándor, I. A. Matei, A. M. Ionica, L. Barti, M.-A. Ciocanau, D. S. Mantoiu, I. Coroiu, S. Hornok, H.-P. Führer, N. Leitner, Z. Bago, K. Stefke, D. Modrý & A. D. Mihalca (2017): Babesia vesperuginis, a neglected piroplasmid: new host and geographical records, and phylogenetic relations, Parasites & Vectors, 10: 598.
- B. Herzig, K. Spreitzer & H.-M. Berg (2017): Kurt Bauer 1926-2016, Annalen des naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 119, 5-6.
- Johan
B. M. Thissen, Dick L. Bekker, Katharina Spreitzer & Barbara Herzig-Straschil (2015): The distribution of the Pannonic
root vole (Microtus oeconomus mehelyi Ehik, 1928) in Austria, Lutra, Volume 58 - Number 1, 3-22.
- Hirschenhauser K., Spreitzer K., Kotrschal K., Lepschy M. & Möstl E. (2012): Excreted corticosterone metabolites differ between two galliform species, japanese quail and chicken, between sexes and between urine and faecal parts of dropping, Journal of Ornithology, 153: 1179-1188.
- Spreitzer K., Hirschenhauser K., Kotrschal K., Lepschy M. & Möstl E. (2009): Non invasive monitoring of stress hormones from droppings: a comparative analytical study in galliforms, 7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife, 183 (Abstract).
Poster:
- 7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife, 21.-24.09.2009 Berlin
- ISAE - International Society for Applied Ethology, 25.09.2009 Vienna
- KLF Anniversary Symposium, 24./25.09.2010 Vienna
- ethology
- physiology
- biochemistry
- conservation biology
- taxonomy
1. zoology
Ahnelt
Harald
associate scientist
Berg Hans-Martin
collection manager
Bibl Alexander
collection
manager
Bogutskaya Nina
scientific assistant
Gassner
Georg
collection manager
Grillitsch Heinz
associate
scientist
Grunstra Nicole D. S.
associate scientist
Haring Melina
Taixdermist
Hengl Marietta
project researcher
Herzig Barbara
associate
scientist
Hofbauer Eduard
technician
Hofmann Gerhard
taxidermist
Illek Robert
head taxidermist
Kirchner Sandra
project
researcher
Kothbauer Renate
scientific assistant
Lutz Daniela
contract worker
(CMS, databases)
Mikschi Ernst
head of department
Palandačić Anja
collection manager
Pilat Melanie
scientific assistant
Pollmann Christian
technician
Reier Susanne
project researcher
Reithofer Matthias
technician
Renner Swen
Curator, Senior Scientist
Riedel Bettina
Collection
assistant, Scientific collaborator
Rubin Iris
model and dioramic maker
Saliari Konstantina
scientific employee and curator
Schiller Katharina
employee
project digitization
Schweiger Silke
curator, staff scientist
Sontag Walter, A.
associate scientist
Sumasgutner Petra
associate
scientist
Taschler Nadine
taxidermy trainee
Wallner Nathalie
taxidermist
Weiß Veronika
taxidermy trainee
Wicke Johannes
preparator
Zachos Frank Emmanuel
Curator, staff scientist