Dr. Matjaž Kuntner
Principal Investigator
email: kuntner<at>gmail<dot>com; kuntner<at>zrc-sazu<dot>si
phone: +386 1 4706 338; fax: +386 1 425 7797
Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg
2, P. O. Box 306, SI-1001 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Biology B. S. (1998)
George Washington University, USA Biology Ph.D. (2005)
Appointments
2011-2014 – Adjunct Professor, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan
430062, Hubei, China
2010-2013 – Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, USA
1 May 2008-present – Chair of Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy
of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005-present – Head of Zoology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and
Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007-2010 – Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, USA
2005-2007 – Research Collaborator, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, USA
1999-2005 – Pre-doctoral Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, USA
1999-2001 – Assistant Researcher, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and
Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Outreach
Organizer, 27thEuropean Congress of Arachnology, 2-7 September 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Associate Editor for Systematics and Taxonomy, Journal of Arachnology (2011-present)
Subject Editor for Araneae, ZooKeys (2012-present)6
Editorial board member: ISRN Zoology (2010-2011); International Journal of Applied Zoology (2005-2011); Hacquetia (2005-present); “Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode” (The University of California Press) International Society of Arachnology: Council member (2007-2013) and National correspondent for Slovenia (1999-present) European Society of Arachnology: Council member (2009-2012) and 2012 congress organizer
International Society of Arachnology: Council member (2007-2013) and National correspondent for Slovenia (1999-present)
European Society of Arachnology: Council member (2009-2012) and 2012 congress organizer
Other memberships: AAAS, American Arachnological Society, British Arachnological Society
Ad hoc peer reviews for: Acta Entomologica Slovenica; Acta Oecologica; American Naturalist; Animal Behaviour; Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; BMC Evolutionary Biology; Breviora; Bulletin of Entomological Research; Cladistics; Ethology; Ethology, Ecology and Evolution; Global Ecology and Biogeography; Insect Systematics and Evolution; Invertebrate Systematics; ISRN Zoology; Journal of Animal Ecology; Journal of Arachnology; Journal of Biogeography; Journal of Ethology; Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology; Journal of Heredity; Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research; Natura Sloveniae; Naturwissenschaften; Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; National Geographic Magazine; PLoS ONE; Records of the Australian Museum; Revista Ibérica de Aracnología; Spider Families of the World; Systematics and Biodiversity; Systematic Biology; Zookeys; Zoologica Scripta; Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society; Zootaxa
Grant reviews for: National Science Foundation; Macquarie University Research Fellowships; Grant
Agency, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Awards
Darwin’s bark spider selected among Top 10 new species of 2010 by the Time magazine (http://
www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2034045_2034038,00.html)
Largest orbweaver Nephila komaci Kuntner & Coddington 2009 covered in the Guinness Book of Records,
2011 edition
Largest orbweaver Nephila komaci Kuntner & Coddington 2009 selected among Top 10 species for 2010
by the International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University (http://species.asu.edu/
Top10)
Best Student Paper in Systematics, International Congress of Arachnology, South Africa, March 2001
Organization for Tropical Studies, USA, 2001. Tuition award for OTS 2001-3: Tropical Biology – An
Ecological Approach, June-August 2001
National Science Foundation, USA, 1999-2003. Graduate student fellowship from a PEET grant in
Araneoid Spider Systematics (to Hormiga and Coddington)
George Washington University, USA, 1999-2004. Tuition award for doctoral study
Publications
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