Jørgen Olesen

Associate Professor, Curator

Natural History Museum of Denmark
Universitetsparken 15
2100 København Ø

Phone: +45 353-21045
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-21120
E-mail: jolesen@snm.ku.dk

Primary research areas

Current research

• High-rank phylogeny based on morphological and molecular data of the archaic looking Crustacea that make up the Branchiopoda (fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp, clam shrimp, and water fleas). 
• Morphology and systematics of various smaller, enigmatic crustacean taxa, the phylogenetic position of which has reached no consensus: Mystacocarida, Leptostraca, Branchiura (with O. S. Møller), Cephalocarida (with D. Waloszek), and Tantulocarida.
• Phylogeny of Onychopoda, a group of primarily marine raptorial cladocerans (waterfleas) with species rich radiations in the Ponto-Caspian region (Caspian Sea and Aral Lake) (with S. Richter).
• Faunistics of Danish 'larger' branchiopods.

List of publications with links to pdf-files.

Curation

Responsible for the Zoological Museum's collections of Crustacea, Xiphosura and Pycnogonida.  Browse the crustacean collection (including types). Shortcut to list with all species in the crustacean collection. 

Assistant curator: Tom Schiøtte

Other duties

Head of INVERTEBRATES
Chairman of Danish Natural History Society (2006-)

Teaching

• Main responsible for the course: Marine invertebrater: morfologi, biologi, evolution
• Teach on the course: Marin faunistik: Marine fisks og invertebraters diversitet og biologi