Education
1972 – 1976, 1986 – 1989, 1996 – 2001
Biology, PhD, University of Basel
1964 – 1972
Girls' grammar school/Kohlenberg secondary school, High School Graduation Type B
Further Education
Several national and international specialist conventions each year
Career
1971 – 1973
Assisting various departments of the Natural History Museum Basel
1986 – 1988
Teaching activities at college of higher education
1988 – 1991
Project work on saproxylic beetles
1989 – 1996
Research Associate in the Department of Entomology
Since 1997
Research Associate and curator of the Frey Coleoptera Collection
Publications
Bartolozzi L., Ghahari H., Sprecher-Uebersax E. & Zilioli M. (2014). A checklist of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from Iran. Zootaxa 3887 (4): 422-436.
Sprecher-Uebersax E., Geiser M. & Hicklin M. (2012). Die Käfersammlung Frey – eine Kostbarkeit für die Wissenschaft. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaften beider Basel 14: 3-19.
Sprecher-Uebersax E. & Daccordi M. (2012). New species of Phaedon Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from the Himalaya. Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya III (ed. Hartmann & Weipert), Erfurt: 415-421.
Sprecher-Uebersax E. (2011). A new catalogue of leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Nepal. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 33: 375-512.
Projects and Museums Activities
Responsible for the Frey Coleoptera Collection
Research into leaf and stag beetles
Expert on beetles and bees
Tours, lectures, courses
Responsibility for living animals