Mark-Oliver Rödel

Mark-Oliver Rödel studied biology at Tübingen and Würzburg University and decided to do his diploma and PhD theses on the biology of West African savannah frogs. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 scientific publications, including books on West African savannah frogs, the tadpoles of African amphibians and a field guide to all African amphibians. At present, he is the curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, where he and his team mainly research the effects of environmental change on species and ecosystems, using amphibians as their main model system.