Nico Franz
Krishtalka Director, Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolNico Franz is an evolutionary biologist and insect systematist with 11 years of leadership experience building biocollections infrastructure and biodiversity data science services. As Krishtalka Director of the Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, he combines museum curation, academic research, and administrative leadership. He leads major national initiatives—serving as an academic leader for the NEON Biorepository and principal investigator of the iDigBio Symbiota Support Hub that sustains over 2,000 collections and 90 million occurrence records. His research on weevils is paired with technical expertise in biodiversity informatics developed through roles at ASU, UC Santa Barbara, and Cornell, reflecting a rare mix of taxonomy and data systems. Known for scaling collection-based infrastructure, he brings practical innovation to how biodiversity data are archived, shared, and used for research and conservation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Biology, Master's degree, Biology at Universidad de Costa RicaGraduate Student, 1 Semester, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Graduate Student, 1 Semester, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Ulm UniversityPostdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Informatics, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Informatics at UC Santa BarbaraPrediploma, Biology, Prediploma, Biology at University of HamburgDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systematic Entomology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systematic Entomology at Cornell University
German, English, Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Latin
Github Skills (39)
cgi9
uic9
euler9
taxonomies9
ref9
logic8
vimeo8
mp47
biodiversity7
python6
traits5
computational-biology5
api5
geneontology5
cytoscapejs5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nfranz/Presentations
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
nfranz/ASP-for-Nomenclatural-Change
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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