Short CV

Apostolos Trichas completed his studies in Biology in 1985 at the University of Belgrade (Department of Biology) and at the University of Crete (Postgraduate Diploma in Zoology, 1987 and Ph.D. in 1997, in Ecology and Biogeography of Ground Coleoptera in the South Aegean).

Today, he is the Curator of the Arthropod collections of the Museum of Natural History of Crete (University of Crete) and Laboratory Academic Staff at the School of Sciences & Engineering of the University of Crete.

As a specialist in Coleoptera (PhD) his research interests focus on Phylogeny, Ecology, Biogeography and Systematics of many beetle families in the Eastern Mediterranean, but also other groups of insects. He has participated in more than 50 field expeditions in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean countries and has organized many field samplings in Crete, in the framework of research programs or student education. All of the above activities have also resulted in over two million arthropod specimens, being stored, classified in databases and scientifically processed, in the Museum’s collections. A. Trichas is the author of many new species of arthropods in Crete and Greece and is actively involved in the research and publication of articles related to Fauna, Biogeography, Phylogeny, etc. of insects in the Aegean and Crete, as well as the monitoring/management of rare or endemic species in the above area. He also participates in research in the monitoring and management of invasive species for the Greek area and importance evaluations on species of Medical/Forensic/Agricultural/Forestry nature.

He has participated in more than 25 national and international scientific programs related to the Biodiversity of the Arthropods of Crete and other Mediterranean regions since 1994, with main object of recording, monitoring and management, he is author of more than 30 international scientific publications and book chapters on Arthropods, 50 scientific announcements in international and Greek conferences, while he is participating as a reviewer of scientific articles in the Journal of Biogeography, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Conservation, Entomologia Hellenica, etc ..

He is regular lecturer at the Biology Dept of the University of Crete (from 1997 to 2004 as Adjunct Lecturer and from 2014-present as Laboratory Academic Staff in the School of Sciences and Engineering of the University of Crete) with lectures on General Zoology, Insect Biodiversity, Biogeography and Insect Fauna of Greece. Since 2000 he has supervised more than 15 Bachelor theses and 4 Master theses (Ecology and Phylogeny of Cretan and Greek Arthropod species).