Organisation: University of Graz
Position: Researcher & Biologist investigating various aspects of the honey bee and beekeeping, including colony losses
SAMS tasks: Api management
Robert Brodschneider is a researcher at the Institute of Biology at the University of Graz, Austria. In his research he focusses on the nutrition of honey bees on adult, larval and colony level. In 2008 he established the investigation of colony losses in Austria, and since 2014 he is co-chair of the international colony losses monitoring group of the honey bee research association COLOSS. Robert has a great interest in involvement of beekeepers in scientific research, which he conducts in the framework of Citizen Science.