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Museiintendent, PhD
I joined the Biological Museum as an entomology curator in 2018. We have a large insect collection (about 5 million pinned specimens), including many primary types and important historical collections.
My main interests are systematics, historical biogeography, ecology, and morphology of various groups of Lepidoptera. I am especially interested in elucidating different aspects of the evolutionary history of a group, such as divergence times, changes in host plant use or morphological evolution, which can be done with a well-resolved molecular phylogeny in hand. Metalmark moths (Choreutidae), a mainly tropical family with a little over 400 species described, are my main focus, but I have also worked on a number of other groups of Lepidoptera (e.g., non-ditrysians, acanthopteroctetids, totricids, butterflies, noctuids) and will continue to do so in the future.
My interest in Lepidoptera developed while I was an undergraduate in Croatia at the University of Zagreb. I thoroughly enjoyed the research I did for my diploma thesis “Butterflies of Paklenica National Park” and I quickly became determined to base my career on similar research. As research opportunities in Croatia were somewhat limited, I decided to continue my studies elsewhere and I ended up going to the University of Connecticut to work with Dave Wagner as my advisor. In 2003 I completed my Master’s Thesis, and in 2007 my PhD, both focused on metalmark moths (Choreutidae). From Connecticut I went to Washington, D.C. for two years to work as a postdoc at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), and from there I returned to Europe in 2010 for a two-year postdoc at the Danish Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen, where I worked with the late Niels Kristensen. From Denmark I moved to Finland to the University of Turku, where I worked as an experienced researcher funded by the Kone Foundation for three years (2013–2015). Since the beginning of 2016 I have been employed as a researcher in Lund.
2015 godkände FN:s medlemsstater 17 Globala mål för en hållbar utveckling, för att utrota fattigdomen, skydda planeten och garantera välstånd för alla. Den här personens arbete relaterar till följande Globala mål:
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Wahlberg, N. (PI), Kärrnäs, E. (Forskarstuderande), Rota, J. (CoPI) & Hansson, C. (CoPI)
2022/01/01 → 2025/12/31
Projekt: Forskning
Miric, M. (Forskare), Stensmyr, M. (Handledare) & Rota, J. (Biträdande handledare)
2021/09/01 → 2025/05/23
Projekt: Avhandling
Quan, Y. (Forskare), Clough, Y. (Handledare), Rota, J. (Biträdande handledare) & Ekroos, J. (Biträdande handledare)
2020/10/08 → …
Projekt: Avhandling
Rota, J. (Forskare) & Chiocchio, A. (Forskare)
2019/02/01 → 2019/10/31
Projekt: Forskning
Rota, J. (organisatör)
Aktivitet: Deltagit i eller arrangerat evenemang › Arrangerat konferens
Li, M. (intervjuad), Runemark, A. (Roll ej angiven), Hernandez, J. (Roll ej angiven), Rota, J. (Roll ej angiven), Bygebjerg, R. (Roll ej angiven) & Brydegaard, M. (Roll ej angiven)
Aktivitet: Annan › Framträdande i media
Rota, J. (presentatör)
Aktivitet: Föredrag eller presentation › Presentation
Rota, J. (medlem av programkommitté)
Aktivitet: Deltagit i eller arrangerat evenemang › Arrangerat konferens
Rota, J. (intervjuad)
Aktivitet: Annan › Framträdande i media