Research Interests

• Honey bee behaviour, brood care, defence, reproduction and phylogeny of Apis.
• Special emphasis on tropical honey bees, Apis andreniformis, Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, Apis florea, Apis koshevnikovi, Apis nuluensis and African subspecies of Apis mellifera.
• Research on biology of parasitic honey bee mites (Varroa spec., Euvarroa spec., Tropilaelaps spec.); new control methods and medications.
• Together with Dr. Gudrun Koeniger since 2011 development of a device (Varroa-Gate) to control horizontal transfer of Varroa destructor in co-operation with Bayer Animal Health.

Curriculum vitae

Personal Information

• born 08.05.1941 in Berlin

Academic Career and Professional Experience

• 1968: Dr. phil. nat. (Biology) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität
• 1978: Privat Dozent (Biology) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (Habilitation)

Position

• 1969-1970: Scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• 1970-1972: Research Assistant: Fachbereich Biologie, Univ. Frankfurt
• 1972-1979: Lecturer: Fachbereich Biologie, Univ. Frankfurt
• 1979-1980: Research Associate: Landesanstalt für Bienenkunde, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart
• 1980-1981: Associate Professor, Dept. of Environmental Biology, Ontario Agricultural College; Univers. of Guelph; Ontario, Canada
• 1981-2007: Professor and Director, Institut für Bienenkunde, (Polytechnische Gesellschaft)
  Fachbereich Biowissenschaften der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a. M, Oberursel, GERMANY
• 2007: Retired
• 2007-2014: Research Associate Institut für Bienenkunde
• 2014-now: Currently at Molecular Ecology (MLU)

Publications

• More than 150 scientific articles and several chapters in scientific textbooks.

Books

• Nikolaus Koeniger, Gudrun Koeniger and Salim Tingek (2010): Honey Bees of Borneo- Exploring the Centre of Apis Diversity. Natural History Publications Borneo, pp. 262.
• Gudrun Koeniger, Nikolaus Koeniger und Friedrich-Karl Tiesler (2014): Paarungsbiologie und Paarungskontrolle der Honigbiene. Buschhausen Druck-&Verlaghaus2013 pp. 383 (in German)
• Gudrun Koeniger, Nikolaus Koeniger, Jamie Ellis and Lawrence Connor (2014): Mating Biology of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera). Wicwas Press pp.155.