Zoomorphology - REINHARD RIEGER-AWARD IN ZOOMORPHOLOGY
HISTORY & PROCEDURE
The Reinhard Rieger-Award is given in memory of the Austrian zoologist Reinhard Rieger (1943 - 2006) and was initiated by Prof. Dr. Wilfried Westheide in 2008. It is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Zoology at the University of Innsbruck (Reinhard Riegers home institution), Roland Rieger (Reinhard Rieger’s son) and Zoomorphology (SpringerNature Group). Awardees receive a certificate and a grant of 2000€. The prize’s purpose is to recognize an outstanding research article from the entire spectrum of functional and evolutionary morphology in the animal kingdom. Preference will be given to studies that are convincing in their potential to elucidate changes in morphologies and functions in the broader ecomorphological and evolutionary framework.
The award will be decided on following the evaluation and ranking of nominated articles by several reviewers established in the field of zoomorphology, the editor-in-chief of Zoomorphology (Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa from 2008 to 2021, Alexandra Kerbl from 2022 onwards) and a representative delegation of the Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at the Institute of Zoology (University of Innsbruck, Austria).
All papers published in Zoomorphology between July of the past and June of the present year will be evaluated by the selection committee. For the prize awarded in 2023, papers published in any of the four issues between July 2022 and June 2023 are eligible. Corresponding authors of prize-winning manuscripts will be informed about the decision immediately after the selection has been made.
PRESENT & PAST REVIEWERS
Ever since the award was handed out for the first time in 2008, the selection procedure vastly benefitted from a series of dedicated zoomorphologists, who assessed nominated articles and provided ranked lists. We are very grateful to all reviewers who have agreed to participate in the ranking process in the past
Rick Brusca (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, USA); Alan Hodgson (Rhodes University, South Africa); Julia Sigwart (Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany), Roland Melzer (Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany); Daniel G. Blackburn (Trinity College Hartford, USA); Martin Vinther Sørensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), William M. Kier (University of North Carolina, USA), Elena N. Temereva (Moscow State University, Russia), Günter Purschke (Universiy of Osnabrück, Germany), Carsten Lüter (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany), Steven Perry (University of Bonn, Germany), Annalisa Berta (San Diego State University, USA), Peter Michalik (University of Greifswald, Germany), Cheryl Wilga (University of Rhode Island Kingston, USA), Janice Voltzow (University of Scranton, USA), Fernando Pardos Martinez (University of Madrid, Spain), Rick Hochberg (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna, Austria), Michael B. Thompson (University of Sydney, Australia), Seth Tyler (University of Maine, USA), Alexander Haas (University of Hamburg, Germany), Marvalee H. Wake (University of California/Berkley, USA), Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University, USA), Steffen Harzsch (University of Greifswald, Germany), Peter C. Wainwright (University of California/Davis, USA), J. Matthias Starck (University of Munich, Germany), Thomas Bartholomaeus (University of Bonn, Germany), M artinS. Fischer (University of Jena, Germany), Alfred Goldschmid (University of Salzburg, Austria), Reinhardt M. Kristensen, (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Alessandro Minelli (University of Padova, Italy), Wilfried Westheide (University of Osnabrück, Germany), Nadezhda N. Rimskaya-Korsakova (University Jena, Germany), Karolin Engelkes (Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Germany), Thomas Schwaha (University Vienna, Germany), Maria Herranz (King Juan Carlos University, Spain).
