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