Team
Sanda Iepure, PhD
Sanda Iepure, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Speleology “Emil Racovita”, Cluj Department, Romania / Professor Associate, University Babes Bolyai, Faculty of Biology and Geology
PhD in Biology, Romanian Academy (Project coordinator)
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Biospeleology; Groundwater ecology, limnology in Mediterranean and Arctic environments; Quaternary paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions; Taxonomy and systematics of cyclopoids copepods and ostracods crustaceans.

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Andrei Stefan
Andrei Stefan, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Speleology Emil Racovita Cluj Napoca / National Museum of Natural History, ″Grigore Antipa″, Bucharest, Romania
PhD in Biology, University ″Alexandru Ioan Cuza″, Iași
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Molecular biology

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Oana Teodora Moldovan
Oana Teodora Moldovan, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Speleology Emil Racovita, Cluj Napoca, Romania
PhD in Biology, Universitee Paul Sabatier, Toulousse, France
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Biospeleology, Cave ecoloy

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Maria Mirabela Pop
Maria Mirabela Pop, PhD Student
Institute of Speleology Emil Racovita / Romanian Academy, Cluj Napoca, Romania
MSc in Molecular Biotehnologies, Univesity Babes Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Groundwater ecotoxicology, chemoautotrophic symbiotic bacterias, sulfidic groundwater ecosystems

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Orest Sambor
Orest Sambor, MSc
Research Assistant, Institute of Speleology Emil Racovita, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Bachelor in Biology, University Babes Bolyai Cluj Napoca, Romania
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Biospeleology, Cave ecology and monitoring, Isotopes

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Current students
B. Sc Bogdan Ilea
Bogdan Ilea, B.Sc
B. Sc Student, University Babes Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Bachelor student in Biology, University Babes Bolyai Cluj Napoca, Romania
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Ecotoxicology

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External collaborators
Jean-François-Flot, PhD
Jean-François-Flot, PhD
Researcher, Univesite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
PhD in Microbial Ecology
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Molecular approaches to species delimitation – Molecular systematics – Genome assembly – Experimental evolution – Genome evolution – Bioinformatics

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Fabio Stoch
Fabio Stoch, PhD
Researcher, Univesite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
PhD in Biology, Univesite Libre de Bruxelles
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of freshwater amphipods Isopods; Taxonomy and biogeography of freshwater copepods; Biogeography of European groundwater crustaceans; Conservation biology and Habitat Directive in Italy.

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Ferran Palero, PhD
Ferran Palero, PhD
Researcher, Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversidad i Biologia Evolutiva, Valencia, Spain
PhD in Microbial Ecology.
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Evolutionary genetics, spanning from ancient divergences to contemporary population genetics. Research studies on the evolutionary genetics of invertebrates, particularly arthropods, bioinformatics and bacterial genomics.

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Claire Chaveau, PhD Student
Claire Chaveau, PhD Student
Univesite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
RESEARCH INTEREST: 
Ecological and evolutionary genetics in fresh water and marine environments, symbiosis with microorganisms (Thiothrix-amphipods).

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Former students & collaborators
Filip Boanca
Filip Boanca, MSc
Research Assistant, MSc in Biology, University Babes Bolyai Cluj Napoca, Romania
RESEARCH INTEREST: 
Groundwater ecology, mesothermal sulfidic aquifers crustaceans communities.

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Dr. Serban M. Sarbu
Serban M. Sarbu, PhD
Researcher, Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
RESEARCH INTEREST: 
Sulfidic cave ecosystems

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Dr. T. Brad
T. Brad, PhD
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, Netherland
RESEARCH INTEREST: 
Groundwater microbiology, Systematics of groundwater Amphipoda (Crustacea)

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Sanziana Grapa
Sanziana Grapa, MSc Student
B.Sc in Biology, University Babes Bolyai Cluj Napoca, Romania
RESEARCH INTEREST: 
Groundwater ecology, mesothermal sulfidic aquifers crustaceans’ communities

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