Alexander Haas

Alexander Haas
Born	1964 (age 61–62) Heilbronn, Germany
Education	University of Tübingen University of California, Berkeley Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Known for	Herpetology and amphibian biodiversity
Scientific career
Fields	Biology, herpetology
Workplaces	University of Hamburg

Alexander Haas (born 1964 in Heilbronn) is a German biologist and has been a professor at the University of Hamburg since 2003.

Haas heads the herpetology section at the Zoological Museum of Hamburg. Before his appointment in Hamburg, he studied at the University of Tübingen, spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley in California, and spent nine years at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Together with his colleague Professor Indraneil Das of Malaysia, Haas has conducted an inventory of frog species and tadpoles in the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah on the island of Borneo since 2004. The research project, Inventory and Biodiversity of the Frog Fauna of East Malaysia with emphasis on their larval forms, was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation.

In the context of biodiversity conservation, Haas advocates foundational work in taxonomy, arguing that such work is necessary for the rapid documentation of biodiversity.

External links

• Tierbestandsaufnahme: Gern gelobt, ungern gefördert — interview in Die Zeit, 2009
• Publications at ResearchGate
• Frogs of Borneo — project website of Alexander Haas and Indraneil Das