In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the University of Freiburg,[1] where she studied medicine.

She then began studying zoology in Munich and received her doctorate in 1902, specialising in the developmental history of the vertebrate lung.

[3] They moved to Berlin and Moser began her international research, which included identifying nine new species, most notably the cold-water southern physonect Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni that was collected from the South Pole expedition for the Museum of Natural History in Berlin.

[4][5] The prince of Monaco commissioned her to work on his zoological deep sea collection.

[6] She became involved with parapsychology in 1914, releasing a work on the topic in 1935.