Prof Pedro Martinez Arbizu
Prof Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung, Germany Pedro Martinez Arbizu is Professor of Marine Biodiversity at University of Oldenburg. He studied biology at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) and he obtained his Ph. D. degree at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (2000) on a project on: "The paraphyly of Cyclopinidae Sars, 1913 and the phylogenetic position of poecilostome families within Cyclopoida Burmeister, 1835 (Copepoda: Crustacea)". From 1994 to 1998 he was Research assistant at Universität Oldenburg, working on Quantitative and systematic composition of Arctic meiofauna, specially harpacticoid copepods, and Latitudinal species diversity gradients of deep-sea meiofauna in the Southern Atlantic. From 1999 to 2001 he was Professor at Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. Since 2001 he is Professor at the University of Oldenburg and Director of the German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research, at Senckenberg Research Institute. |