Julia Kasper

Julia Kasper is a New Zealand entomologist specialising in Diptera. As of 2022, she is the lead invertebrate curator at New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa. As part of her work Kasper is assisting with a citizen science project informing a national mosquito census. Kasper previously worked as the principal entomologist at the New Zealand Biosecure Laboratory. She has also undertaken work in forensic entomology assisting the New Zealand police and coroners with cases. Prior to living in New Zealand, she worked at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Kasper obtained her doctorate at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2013.

She is a member of the New Zealand Entomological Society and, as of 2022, serves as the President of its Wellington branch.