Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Museum

Dr.

Tamara Spasojevic

Position: Curator Hymenoptera

Function: Function:

Curator of Parasitica Collection
Research
Public outreach

Tamara Spasojevics ORCID record:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5301-5722

Contact:

Tamara.Spasojevic@nhm.at
Phone: +43 1 52177-382

Past professional experience
2022–2024 Collection Manager and Research Associate Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Isoptera)

2021–2023 Postdoctoral Researcher Natural History Museum Basel and University of Bern, Switzerland Project title: Darwin wasps and the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

2019–2021 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States

Project title: Deciphering host-related evolutionary patterns in polysphinctine spider parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)

Education

2015–2018 PhD of Science in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern and Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland

Thesis title: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of pimpliform parasitoid wasps: evidence from fossils, morphology and molecules

2013–2015 MSc in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern and Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland

Thesis title: DNA barcoding of European spiders with emphasis on closely related species from the genus Araniella (Araneae: Araneidae)

2009–2013 Undergraduate studies in general biology University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae), biodiversity discovery, integrative taxonomy and systematics, morphological and molecular phylogenetics, phylogenetic dating, fossils, host-parasitoid interactions, macroevolution

2023                       Zambia (2 weeks)
2022                       Sweden (1 week)
2021-2023              Switzerland
2014                       Greece (2 weeks)
2009–2013              Serbia

2023–present subject editor for Journal of Hymenoptera Research

2022–present organizer of Darwin wasp online seminars

2020–present reviewer for: Systematic Biology, Systematic Entomology, Linnean Journal of Zoological Society, ZooKeys, Journal of Hymenoptera Research and Neotropical Entomology

2018–present Member of the Society of Systematic Biologists

2018–present Member of International Society of Hymenopterists

2015–present Member of Swiss Systematic Society