Patrick Krapf

My name is Patrick Krapf and I am the coordinator of the Myrmecological News Blog. I’m a PostDoc fellow at the Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck. I’m currently working on Tetramorium alpestre and its amazing social organisation. During my PhD, I discovered the fascinating world of ants and since then, I am intrigued every day by its vast complexity and simplicity at same time. It was in these first months of intensive reading when I started falling in love with ants and ant research, but I was not always a myrmecologist. In my master thesis, I worked with Drosophila nigrosparsa, a Diptera found in the European Alps with which I conducted several life-history assays.