Plenary lectures

We are pleased to announce the first invited speakers for ZoologyCon 2026.
Additional plenary speakers will be announced in the coming months.

Lyubomir Penev
Pensoft Publishers
Thematic area: Zoological Collections, Museums and Research Infrastructures

Nesrine Akkari
Natural History Museum Vienna
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)
Thematic area: Evolution, Systematics and Integrative Taxonomy

Sérgio Ávila
University of the Azores
BIOPOLIS, University of Porto
Thematic area: Biodiversity and Biogeography of Native, Non-native and Invasive Faunas

Rafael Márquez
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid
Thematic area: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation under Global Change