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Our knowledge contributes to biodiversity preservation

National
research institute

Naturalis is the Dutch national research institute for biodiversity. Working with one of the largest natural history collections in the world, our researchers work on describing, monitoring and understanding biodiversity. This type of research is fundamental to the protection of both the Earth’s natural riches, and ourselves. Our research quality was rated as “excellent” by an external visitation in 2021.

Working together with Naturalis

We have state-of-the-art laboratories, a collection of over 42 million specimens, a staff of over 120 researchers and several teams to support them. We work together with local governments, NGOs and many different types of companies.

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Research
and scientific infrastructure

At Naturalis, over 120 researchers are working on scientific issues in the field of biodiversity on land and at sea worldwide: mapping species and their cohesion, and their changing living environment. Our data specialists work on automatic species identification, and on weaving all biodiversity data together.

Researchers and specialists

Research groups and departments

News
from Naturalis

Le Qin Choo
March 23rd, 2022

The day of the PhD defence: Le Qin Choo

Thursday March 24th at 13:00, Le Qin Choo will enter the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam to defend her thesis entitled “Genomic variability and population structure in shelled pteropods”. For her PhD research at Naturalis and the University of Amsterdam, she…
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Fishing cat from Singapore
March 11th, 2022

The impossible fishing cat

The skull and skin of a Fishing Cat has been in the collections of Naturalis for 200 years, but only recently did it receive attention. What researchers found can inform us about the history of Singapore – natural and cultural. And it shows just how…
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Education
for students

The research groups at Naturalis offer  bachelor- and master courses at Dutch and international universities. We also offer many projects for Bachelor and Master internships. For PhD students, we have a lauded PhD-programme in place.

Education:  bachelor- and master courses

Research: bachelor- and master projects

A PhD at Naturalis 

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Infrastructures, networks
& publications


 

In the light of the current biodiversity crisis, having all biodiversity and taxonomical data connected and available is more important than ever. Naturalis is leading the way in endeavors to make this happen, both on a national and a worldwide scale.

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Butterflies and moths
Planten en schimmels

Naturalis conducts research
worldwide