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Klaus Hartmann Hartfelder Versão em português
Advisor to the General Coordination – Biological Sciences 2
Professor of the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP).
He studied Biology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany), Where he obtained his Diploma (Master’s degree) in 1982 and the Doctoral degree in Zoology in 1986. After a postdoctoral teaching assistantship (1986-1989) in Tübingen, he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship (1990) to specialize in insect endocrinology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Holding a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen he obtained the Habilitation in 1993. In 1998 he moved to Brazil, first as Visiting Professor (DAAD/CAPES) with the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters at Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP-USP) from 1998-2003), and then to a permanent position as Associate Professor at FMRP-USP, where he became a Full Professor in 2013.
He has experience in Animal Developmental Biology, primarily working to understand the molecular and cellular basis of caste development and reproductive division of labor in social insects and the reproductive physiology of insects in general. A current interest are comparative genomics analyses of social bees (Meliponini).
He was Head of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pathogenic Bioagents of FMRP and currently is the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Genetics. He was the President of the International Union of the Studies of Social Insects (IUSSI) and is the Assistant Editor of the journal Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Brazilian Society of Genetics and Associate Editor of Apidologie (Springer).