Fabio Stoch

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, research fellowship project: Improving molecular approaches to delineate the evolutionary history and radiation of European gammarid amphipods Previous positions: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, PhD project: Molecular taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of European niphargid amphipods; National Research Council of Italy, Research Fellowship on the project “Checklist of the Italian Fauna”; University of L'Aquila, Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences: 2011-2015 Contract Senior Researcher in Groundwater Biology, 2009-2011 Contract Professor, course "Animal Diversity”; 2002-2018 Freelance professional with public research institutes in ecology, conservation biology and bioinformatics. Current international scientific collaborations: (1) University of Lyon, France: (a) molecular phylogeny and morphotaxonomy of freshwater Isopoda Aselloidea; (b) biogeographical and macroecological analysis of the European Groundwater Crustacean Database (EGCD). (2) University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: (a) molecular phylogeny, morphotaxonomy and biogeography of groundwater Isopoda Sphaeromatidae; (b) molecular phylogeny, morphotaxonomy and biogeography of Amphipoda Niphargidae. (3) University of Lodz, Poland: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Mediterranean freshwater Amphipoda Gammaridae. (4) National Institute of Biology, Slovenia: taxonomy and distributional ecology of Crustacea Copepoda in groundwaters. (5) University of L'Aquila, Italy: taxonomy and biogeography of groundwater Copepoda Cyclopoida and Harpacticoida. (6) University of Palermo, Italy: phylogeny, biogeography and macroecology of Crustacea Copepoda Calanoida and large Branchiopoda. (7) Comitato Scientifico per la Fauna d'Italia, Italy: Checklist of the Italian Fauna (Freshwater Crustacea). Member of the SSC Cave Invertebrate Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC). Member of the following scientific societies: U.Z.I. (Unione Zoologica Italiana); I.S.S.B. (International Society of Subterranean Biology); S.S.I. (Società Speleologica Italiana).