Scientific Committee
Frederic Archaux
Head of Research Unit INRAE Forest Ecosystems. My research aims at identifying forest practices and landscape features beneficial to biodiversity including butterflies. I also contributed to atlas and inventories of moth at the county and regional scale.
Laurence Després
Laurence Després is Professor at University Grenoble Alpes (France), where she teaches evolutionary ecology and phylogenetics. Her main research interests are in the evolutionary processes leading to population diversification and speciation. Most projects combine population genetics and phylogenomic analyses together with ecological, biochemical and behavioral studies to test hypotheses about evolutionary processes or adaptation to multiple constraints mainly in the Alps.
Marianne Elias
Marianne Elias is an evolutionary biologist and a team leader with a strong interest in the ecology and evolution of butterflies. Her team has contributed major advances in systematics, community ecology and history of diversification of the neotropical butterfly tribe Ithomiini, comprising nearly 400 species and engaging in Müllerian mimetic interactions with other Lepidoptera. Marianne also has interest in understanding how butterfly populations and community respond to variable environments across elevation gradients in temperate and tropical regions.
David Lees
David Lees is a Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum in London, where he curates the traditional ‘Microlepidoptera’ and is an Editor-in-Chief of Nota Lepidopterologica. His research interests are molecular and morphological systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of butterflies and moths worldwide, with a long-term interest in the fauna of Madagascar.
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde is a research scientist at the Forest Zoology Unit of INRAE Orléans and research associate at the Institute of Research on Insect Biology (IRBI) at Tours. He currently studies the responses of moths to environmental disturbances, biosurveillance of invasive species and systematics of Gracillariidae leaf-mining micromoths. He was general secretary of the Society for European Lepidopterology from 2015 till 2019 and is currently ordinary member of the council. He served as chief editor of Nota Lepidopterologica in 2015 and is now subject editor.
Jadranka Rota
Jadranka Rota received her PhD in Entomology from the University of Connecticut, USA. She has worked as curator at Biological Museum, Lund University, Lund, Sweden since 2018. Her research interest is broadly in evolutionary history of Lepidoptera, including taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics, as well as historical biogeography. Jadranka taxonomically specializes in the family Choreutidae, but has published on a number of different groups of Lepidoptera, including micros and macros. She is currently in the council of the Society for European Lepidopterology and she serves as a subject editor for Nota Lepidopterologica.
Rodolphe Rougerie
Rodolphe Rougerie is a lecturer and curator of Lepidoptera at the Natural History Museum in Paris. He works on the systematics and macroecology of hawkmoths, Sphingidae and wild silk moths Saturniidae by combining morphology, ecology, life traits and molecular phylogenies. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Pôle National de Données de la Biodiversité (PNDB); France representative in iBOL International Scientific Collaboration Committee: https://ibol.org; Member of Global Lepidoptera checklist working group (CoL/GBIF) and Subject editor for Biodiversity Data Journal and Zookeys and member of the editorial board of the Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France and Antenor
Nils Ryrholm
Nils Ryrholm received his PhD in Entomology at Uppsala University, Sweden. His thesis was about the influence of local- and microclimate on the distribution of Lepidopteran species. He is presently working as professor at the University of Gävle in Sweden. He has continued to study climatic impact on insects, in recent years mainly changes due to global warming. He is also working with the development of sexual pheromones as a tool in insect conservation. Nils is also strongly involved in several conservation projects like enhancing biodiversity in infra-structural habitats, the red-listing of butterflies and moths – on both national and European level.
Pasi Sihvonen
Pasi Sihvonen is Director of zoology unit at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki. His research focuses on systematics and biodiversity of geometrid moths globally, a megadiverse insect radiation of 24 000 species. Sihvonen has worked in several director, manager and expert positions at the University of Helsinki, Academy of Finland and the European Commission in research funding, research infrastructures, service development and research administration. Sihvonen promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-9325
