Wessel Naidenow

Biography

 Full Professor of Zoology and Hydrobiology at the Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1986 until his death. Head of the Department of Hydrobiology at IZ-BAS (1989-1998). Chairman of the Specialized Scientific Council of Zoology and Ecology, IZ-BAS (1991-2001); Chairman of the Scientific Expert Commission on Biology of Organisms and Ecology at the Ministry of Education and Science; Head of the Plankton Working Group (SIL-International Association for Danube Research). Editor, Hydrobiology (Sofia); Editorial Board, Bulletin de l�Institut de Zoologie et Musee (Sofia), Fauna of Bulgaria, Acta zoologica bulgarica; Advisory Board, Limnologica (Germany). Special expertise in freshwater zooplankton of lakes (glacial, coastal, man-made), swamps and the Danube River; saprobiology; taxonomy and faunistics: Cladocera, Copepoda, Rotatoria. Project leader of many national and international projects. Published over 110 scientific papers, books, monographs and textbooks.

Research Interest

Zoology and Hydrobiology,Ecology