Thierry Backeljau is senior lecturer in genetics at the University of Antwerp and is head of the Operational Directorate Taxonomy and Phylogeny at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels.
He has a broad interest in invertebrate taxonomy, phylogeny and population genetics, with a particular focus on terrestrial gastropods.
As such, he has been President of Unitas Malacologica, and he is member of the editorial boards of, amongst others, “Journal of Molluscan Studies”, “Malacologia”, and “Iberus”, and he is subject editor for Gastropoda for “ZooKeys”. Thierry has supervised 20 PhD- and >40 MSc-theses, and he was member of >65 PhD juries (own PhD students not included) in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the UK. He is (co-) author of >200 papers in impact factor journals, >55 papers in peer-reviewed journals without impact factor, and 39 popular science papers. He acts as reviewer for >70 scientific journals and for >20 research fund organizations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, EC, Israel, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and the USA.
Thierry has revised the EASIN list of the terrestrial snails and is currently a member of the EASIN Editorial Board, assigned for terrestrial snails.