Research profile
I am working on the taxonomy, zoogeography and evolution of fishes, and the conservation of fishes and aquatic habitats. My main study areas include European and Asian freshwaters (Germany; Turkey; Israel; Russian Federation), North American freshwaters (Mexico), the Mediterranean Sea, the eastern Atlantic, the western Atlantic (Mexico), the eastern Pacific (Costa Rica, Mexico), the Indo-West Pacific (Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman, Madagascar, Mascarenes, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South China Sea, Taiwan, Japan, Russian Federation, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania). Studies also include Neozoa (Lessepsian migrants in the Mediterranean Sea).
Major projects include the editing of Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes, and the bulding of an electronic archive of ichthyological literature.