IPM in Museen

 Integrated Pest Management

About me

I am working in the field of IPM in museums since 2002 and was the first consultant specialized in this special field and try to help the museums solve their insect pest infestations.

Today I work for over 40 museums and institutions in Austria and internationally. Besides that, I also work as a researcher and publishing in the field of museum IPM and museum pests and teach IPM courses and workshops in and outside of Europe.

Zur Person:
Dr. Pascal Querner

1996–2002 Study of biology at the University of Vienna
2002 course of IPM for museums at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna
2002–2015 Associate researcher at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Life Sciences (Boku)
2006 company foundation „Pest control in museums“
2004–2008 PhD at the University of Applied Life Sciences
Seit 2006 consultant work in IPM and monitoring in Museums in Vienna and Austria
2009–2010 Research position at the Rathgen Research Laboratory in Berlin
  • Lector at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna
  • Lector at the Donau-University Krems in the courses Cultural Heritage protection and Collection Studies and Management
  • IPM courses in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Iran, Oman, Hone Kong
  • Developing an IPM pest poster with students
  • Organizing the Internationale conference „IPM in museums, archives and
  • historic houses“ 2013, in Vienna
  • Organizing the Internationale conference „Biocides in museums“ 2020, in Vienna
  • Since 2021 position at the Natural History Museum in Vienna in a project on climate change and museum pests

Services

Workshops

Integrated Pest Management is

Sustainable

Ecological

Efficient