Dr. Heike Scherf
About
Academic Trajectory
2000 - 2006
Ph.D. at the Darmstadt University of Technology (Darmstadt, Germany)
in cooperation with the Senckenberg Research Insitute (Frankfurt/Main, Germany). Ph.D. thesis: „Locomotion-related femoral trabecular architectures in Primates“, supervised by F. Schrenk, D. Schumann and B. Herkner
Diploma degree (Dipl. Geol.) Darmstadt University of Technology (Darmstadt, Germany)
Major: Geology – Palaeontology
Diploma thesis: “Funktionelle Bedeutung der femoralen Konstruktion bei ausgewählten Primaten und Insektivoren“ (Functional implications of the femoral construction of selected primates and insectivores), supervised by F. Schrenk and D. Schumann
Grants
2010
DFG Major Research Instrumentation program, funding for a high resolution computed tomography system (~180 k Euro)
2005
DFG Travel Grant for the IX. International Mammalogical Congress (Sapporo, Japan)
2004
Support for PhD thesis by Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
2002
Ermann Stiftung, funding for high resolution CT scans for PhD project
2001 - 2003
Ph.D. fellowship for women in natural science and engineering of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, granted by Darmstadt University of Technology