Boris Sket

Boris Sket
Boris Sket (2010)
Born (1936-07-30) 30 July 1936
Ljubljana
Nationality Slovene
Alma mater University of Ljubljana
Awards Zois Award
2003 for his scientific achievements
Miroslav Zei Award
2010 for his achievements in the field of zoology
Scientific career
Fields speleobiology, systematics
Institutions Department of Biology, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana

Boris Sket (born 30 July 1936 in Ljubljana) is a Slovene zoologist and speleobiologist.

Sket obtained his doctorate at the University of Ljubljana in 1961 and became a research assistant at the former Natural sciences faculty. In 1965, he became an invertebrate zoology professor at the Biotechnical faculty in Ljubljana and remained at this position until 2006. Between 1983 and 1985, Sket served as a dean of the Biotechnical faculty, and later, between 1989 and 1991, as the 37th rector of the University of Ljubljana. He was retired as a scientific councillor and still lecturing speleobiology to graduate and post-graduate students.

His research focuses on the faunistics of troglobionts and speleobiology in general. He described over a hundred new species, some genera and a family of invertebrates, mostly crustaceans and leeches. A new biogeographic classification of Dinaric cave fauna. First ecological investigations of anchihaline fauna.

He was the president of the Caving Association of Slovenia, the president of the International Society of Subterrabnean Biology. He also serves in editorial boards of several scholarly journals and is a subject field editor of the 'megajournal' Zootaxa.

In 2011, Sket became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Additionally, he is a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Holder of some national awards and medals. Approximately 35 animal species named sketi, three genera likewise.

References

  • Adamič, France (1925–1991). "Sket Boris". Slovenski biografski leksikon (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • "Sket, Boris". Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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