Background
Starck, Matthias Johannes was born on September 22, 1958 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Son of Dietrich and Pia-Maria (Schirndinger von Schirnding) Starck.
Starck, Matthias Johannes was born on September 22, 1958 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Son of Dietrich and Pia-Maria (Schirndinger von Schirnding) Starck.
Diplom, University Freiburg, Germany, 1983. Doctor rerum naturalium, University Giessen and Freiburg, 1988. Habil, University Tübingen, Germany, 1996.
Postdoctoral fellow, U. Tübingen, 1988-1990; assistant professor, U. Tübingen, 1990-1997; Heisenberg fellow, U. Jena, Germany, since 1997. Visiting researcher University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1993-1994.
Member German Zoological Society, German Ornithological Society (Stresemann-Preis 1993), International Society Vertebrate Morphology (Executive officer since 1994), Comparative Nutrition Society.
Married Barbara Helm, March 6, 1991. Children: Tim, Lotte, Edda.