Abstract
Professor Gerhard Scholtz, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Institut fur Biologie, Vergleichende Zoologie has received The Crustacean Society Excellence in Research Award for 2011. He began his studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin, graduating in Biology in 1982. For his doctoral studies, he moved to the Universitat Bremen, graduating in 1986, and afterwards returned to the Freie Universitat where he completed his Habilitation in Biology 1993. He was employed as Associate Professor 1986-1995 at FU before taking up a professorial chair in Comparative Zoology at the Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin. Gerhard’s research interests and accomplishments cover a broad range of invertebrates but has mainly focused on metazoan evolution, origin and phylogeny of arthropods, developmental biology of arthropods, the phylogenetic and evolutionary implications of developmental patterns (cell lineage, gene expression, morphogenesis), cladistic analyses using morphological and molecular data, the evolution and phylogeny of decapod crustaceans, and the biology and origins of freshwater crayfish. Emerging out the classical German mould into which he was born, Scholtz was always destined to become a carci-
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