Department: CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES Y RECURSOS NATURALES

Institute: I.U. DE INVESTIGACIÓN - CIBIO

Area: Zoology

Research group: Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Conservation Biology

Email: antonio.ricarte@ua.es

Doctor by the Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante with the thesis Biodiversidad de sírfidos (Diptera: Syrphidae) y conservación de los hábitats en el Parque Nacional de Cabañeros, España 2008. Supervised by Dr. M. Ángeles Marcos García.

Antonio Ricarte was born in San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante) in 1981. He got his degree in Biology and the PhD at the University of Alicante (UA). Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Zoology, at the UA. Previously, he has been a FPU predoctoral fellow of the Ministry of Education (UA, 2004-2008); Senior Technician of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) project (UA, 2009-2010); E.C. Pelham-Clinton Fellow in Entomology (National Museums Scotland, UK, 2011-2013); researcher at the BioSense Institute and at the Department of Biology and Ecology (University of Novi Sad, Serbia, 2013-2014); Senior Researcher at the CIBIO Institute (UA, 2017); lecturer at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, UNIR (2016-2018); and Distinguished Researcher at the CIBIO (UA, 2018-2023). He is a specialist in syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae), which play a crucial role in pollination of wild and cultivated plants, as well as in regulating populations of pest insects. Most of his research is focused on this entomological group. He has more than 150 publications, has participated in more than 40 projects, having led some of them, for example, one of Fauna Ibérica, financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain. He acted as an assessor of the first IUCN Red List of European hoverflies and is co-author of it. He has attended numerous national and international conferences. Editor of the journals Zootaxa and Cuadernos de Biodiversidad. Member of the Spanish society of Entomology, being secretary of it. He is also involved in outreach activities, such as the creation and maintenance of the Twitter account @sirfidos.