Volker W. Framenau (born 1965, Cologne) is a German-born Australian arachnologist and entomologist.
He earned his M.Sc. in 1995 from Philipps-University Marburg (Populationsökologie und Ausbreitungsdynamik von Arctosa cinerea (Araneae, Lycosidae) in einer alpinen Wildflußlandschaft), and a Ph.D from Melbourne University in 2002 with the thesis Taxonomy, life history characteristics, and ecology of riparian wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) in the Victorian Alps, south-east Australia.[1]
His zoological author abbreviation is Framenau.[2] He has authored over 70 taxa, initially specialising in wolf spiders, but later in many other spider families including: tube web spiders (Segestriidae), leaf curling orb-weaving spiders,[3] and orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae).[4]
He is currently a senior lecturer at Murdoch University in the centre for Biosecurity and One Health, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, where his specialities are listed as: Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biosecurity, Arachnida, Myriapoda and Macrophotography.[5]