Plenary lectures

Meet the invited speakers announced so far for ZoologyCon 2026.

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

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

Sérgio Ávila
University of the Azores, Portugal
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, Spain
Thematic area: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation under Global Change

Dumitru Murariu
Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Special plenary lecture: 160 years since the founding of the Romanian Academy

Anders Bache
Follo museum, Museene i Akershus, Norway
Roald Amundsens Hjem
Thematic area: Zoology, Society and Citizen Science