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Georgi Hristov

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Georgi Hristov Hristov, PhD student, entomologist

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1 Tsar Osvoboditel blvd.
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria

E-mail: georgihristovhristov@gmail.com

Curriculum vitae

1. Name: Georgi Hristov Hristov

2. Date of birth: 18.09.1988, Razgrad, Bulgaria

3. Address: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Division of Biodiversity and Ecology of Invertebrates), Tsar Osvoboditel boulevard 1, 1000-Sofia, Bulgaria.

4. Education: BSc (Biology), 2011 – Sofia University, Faculty of Biology;
MSc (Biology-Entomology), 2013 – Sofia University, Faculty of Biology.

5. Present position: biologist, PhD student (Entomology – “Taxonomic revision and systematic of the order Blattodea of the Balkans”) – IBER - BAS;
18.03.2013-01.10.2013, 01.03.2016-01.10.2018 – assistant - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Animal Diversity and Resources, Biodiversity and Ecology of Invertebrates, Fauna, Taxonomy and Ecology of Invertebrates

6. Languages: English – excellent; Russian – good.

7. Participation in scientific organisations: Orthopterists’ Society, Philadelphia (USA).

8. Trainings, specializations and international cooperation:
“St.St. Cyril and Methodius” University, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje, Macedonia – Biology Students' Research Society (BSRS) - summers of 2013, 2014;
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary – 2012 (2 weeks;
Ustav Zoologie, SAV, Bratislava, Slovak Republic – 2014 (1 month;
Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN, Krakow, Poland – 2015 (2 weeks;
Naturhistorisches Museum (Wien), Vienna , Austria– 2015 (1 week);

Personal cooperation with specialists from scientific institutions in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia.

9. International conferences and meetings:
Oral presentation - Early Career Biogeographers Conference - 2021
Poster - Scientific Conference Kliment's Days - 2020
Poster - Scientific Conference Kliment's Days - 2019
Poster - 9th International Zoological Congress of "Grigore Antipa"Museum - 2017
Poster - Second National Conference for Young Scientists "Biological Sciences for a better future", Plovdiv, Bulgaria - 2015.
Poster - First Student Conference "Ecology and Environment", Shumen, Bulgaria - 2013
1 oral presentation - (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary - 2012

10. Projects:

• Upgrade of the Research Infrastructure Distributed System of Scientific Collections – Bulgaria (DiSSCo-BG): Phase 1 - 2020-2024
• Speciation in a dynamic environment. A comparative phylogeographic study on the terrestrial fauna of the Eastern Mediterranean - 2022-2023
• Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections - 2018-2023
• Biogeographic connections between the Caucasus and the Balkans – evidence from molecular and cybertaxonomic studies on millipedes of the family Julidae (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) - 2021-2022
• Assessment of endangered grassland habitats in Bulgaria through population-genetic research of model insect groups - 2020-2022
• Orthoptera of the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Basin II: a database of digital data in the Orthoptera Species File - 2020-2022
• Phylogeographic routes and barriers between the Balkans, Carpathians and Asia Minor: acombined evolutionary-ecological study on a model insect group (lnsecta: Orthoptera: Barbitistini) - 2017-2019
• Systematics and phylogeny of the poorly studied groups in Bulgaria: termites (Blattodea: epifamilia Termitoidae) and earwigs (Dermaptera) - 2020-2021;
• Phylogeography and systematics of species of the brevipennis-group of the cockroach genus Phyllodromica (Blattodea: Ectobiidae) on the Balkan Peninsula (Program beneficial to young scientists at BAS - 2016;
• Convergent evolution in two groups polyphyletic grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Phaneropterinae): micropteria and speciation - 2014-2017;
• Terrain studies of species distribution/evaluation of species and habitat status for the territory of the whole country – Phase I – 2013-2015;
• Towards the revision of the systematics and phylogeny of certain groups of Blattodea of the Balkan Peninsula and Western Asia - 2014;
• Biodiversity values of Prespa National Park on the basis of selected invertebrate groups (Albania) - 2013
• Reevaluating the systematics and phylogeny of certain groups of Orthoptera and Blattodea of the Southeastern Europe and Western Asia. SYNTHESYS project (HU-TAF-2199) – 2012;
• Mapping and identification of conservation status of natural habitats and species – Phase I (Natura 2000) – 2011-2012;
• Investigation of model epigeobiont and geobiont animals groups as a potential for long-term monitoring and conservation of the biodiversity in Strandzha Mountain (Bulgaria and Turkey). – 2009-2011.

Research interests

Blattodea - Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Faunistics, Evolution, Biology; Mantodea, Dermaptera, Psocoptera – Taxonomy and Faunistics (Western Palaearctic); Herpetology.

Publications

Vasilev, Y., Trifonov, T., Naumova, M., Hristov, G. (2023). First records of Ameles spallanzania (Rossi, 1792) with new data on the distribution of Hierodula tenuidentata Saussure, 1869 in Bulgaria (Insecta: Mantodea: Mantidae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 45, 2, ISSN:2603-3186, 17-23. SJR (Scopus):0.1

Borissov, S. B., Hristov, G. H., Chobanov, D. P.(2021). Phylogeography of the Poecilimon ampliatus species group (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the context of the Pleistocene glacial cycles and the origin of the only thelytokous parthenogenetic phaneropterine bush-cricket. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 79, DOI:https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.79.e66319, 401-418. SJR (Scopus):0.964, JCR-IF (Web of Science):2.354

Todorov, I., Hristov, G., Grozdanov, A., Parvanov, D., Askew, R. (2021). New Records of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Lozenska Mountain, with Contributions to the Fauna of Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 73, 1, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 65-70. SJR (Scopus):0.237, JCR-IF (Web of Science):0.448

Kocinski, M., Grzywacz, B., Hristov, G., Chobanov, D. (2021). A taxonomic outline of the Poecilimon affinis complex (Orthoptera) using the geometric morphometric approach. PeerJ, 9, e12668, DOI:http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12668, 1-20. SJR (Scopus):0.93, JCR-IF (Web of Science):2.98

Lambevska-Hristova, A., Bancheva, S., Karadelev, M., Hristov, G. (2020). New data on the diversity of lignicolous fungi in communities of Juniperus excelsa (Cupressaceae) in Bulgaria. Flora Mediterranea, 30, Pro Herbario Mediterraneo, ISSN:2240-4538 (Online), DOI:10.7320/FlMedit30.167, 167-183. SJR (Scopus):0.22

Rebrina, F., Alegro, A., Hristov, G., Ternjej, I., Brigić, A. (2020). Open karst habitats promote the diversity of ground-dwelling orthopterans and cockroaches (Insecta: Orthoptera, Blattodea) along a temporary river. Journal of Insect Conservation, 24, Springer, DOI:10.1007/s10841-020-00271-x, 1017-1030. JCR-IF (Web of Science): 1.400

Todorov, I., Stojanova, A., Zlatkov, B., Hristov, G., Melika, G. (2019). New Data on the Parasitoid-Inquiline Community of Andricus quercustozae (Bosc, 1792) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 71, 2, 301-303. SJR (Scopus):0.21, JCR-IF (Web of Science): 0.354

Romanowski, J., Battiston, R., Hristov, G. (2019). First Records of Hierodula transcaucasica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Mantodea: Mantidae) in the Balkan Peninsula. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 71, 2, 297-300. SJR (Scopus):0.19, JCR-IF (Web of Science): 0.278

Hristov, G.H., Chobanov, D.P. (2016). An annotated checklist and key to the Bulgarian cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea). Zootaxa, 4154, 4, Magnolia Press, ISSN:1175-5334, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4154.4.1., 351-388. ISI IF: 0.994

Naumova, M.V., Hristovski, S., Hristov, G.H. (2016). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta zoologica bulgarica, 68, 4, ISSN:ISSN: 0324-0770, 503-511. JCR-IF (Web of Science): 0.31

Vergilov, V., Hristov, G., Lukanov, S., Lambevska, A., Tzankov, N. (2016). First record of Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833) in Montenegro. Biharean Biologist, 10, 1, 65-66. SJR: 0.182

Hristovski, S., Dedov, I., Kitanova, D., Chobanov, D., Hristov, G., Stefanov, L.(2014). Biodiversity values of Prespa National Park on the basis of selected invertebrate groups. Final Report. Macedonian Ecological Society,1-20.

Affiliation

Department
Animal Diversity and Resources
Division
Biodiversity and Ecology of Invertebrates
Research group
Fauna, Taxonomy and Ecology of Invertebrates

History

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