| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Function: | Assistant Professor |
| Public phone number: | +385(0)1 4877 727 |
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| Personal web page: | https://linktr.ee/skejo |
| Department: | Division of Zoology |
| Graduation year: | 2014 |
| mr.sc. graduation year: | 2017 |
| PhD graduation year: | 2022 |
| Employed in this institution since: | 2017 |
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Josip Skejo was born in 1992 in Šibenik. He completed his high school education in Sinj as a Franciscan seminarian, and his university studies in Zagreb. He is a field, laboratory, and museum biologist with extensive domestic and international experience. He mastered fieldwork and taxonomy under the mentorship of Nikola Tvrtković. His scientific research focuses on the biodiversity and evolution of grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera), with an emphasis on tropical pygmy grasshoppers (Tetrigidae), as well as the early evolution of eukaryotes. He has published 6 scientific books, 3 chapters, and over 70 scientific articles, which have been cited more than 1,000 times according to Google Scholar, and has described over 100 taxa new to science. He is a member of the IUCN Commission for the Conservation of Orthoptera, where he has co-authored more than 150 professional papers. He currently works as an assistant professor at the Department of Biology in Zagreb. He is the recipient of the Rector's Award (2013), two Special Rector's Awards (2012, 2015), a special Rector's Recognition (2017), two BRDO awards for the best teaching assistant at the Department of Biology (2022, 2023), the Annual Science Award of the Faculty of Science (2022), and the National Science Award (2022).
2013. Skejo J, Rebrina F. Rammeihippus dinaricus (Götz, 1970) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) – a new genus and species for the orthopteran fauna of Croatia and the first record of the species since description. Natura Croatica, 22(1): 37–43. LINK
2014. Skejo J et al. First records of Croatian and Serbian Tetrigidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) with description of a new subspecies of Tetrix transsylvanica (Bazyluk & Kis, 1960). Zootaxa, 3856(3): 419–432. LINK
2015. Rebrina F et al. Trait variability of the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) in a recently invaded region reflects potential benefits and trade-offs during dispersal. Aquatic invasions, 10(1): 41–50. LINK
2016. Hochkirch A et al. European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. 94 pp. LINK
2017. Tumbrinck J, Skejo J. Taxonomic and biogeographic revision of the New Guinean genus Ophiotettix Walker, 1871 (Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae: Ophiotettigini trib. nov.), with the descriptions of 33 new species. In: Telnov D, Barclay M, Pauwels O (Eds.) Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea (Volume III). Riga, Latvia, The Entomological Society of Latvia, pp. 525–580. LINK
2018. Skejo J et al. The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Magnolia Press, Auckland, Zootaxa, 4533(1): 1–95. LINK
2019. Skejo J et al. Oriental macropterous leaf-mimic pygmy grasshoppers—genera Oxyphyllum and Paraphyllum (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and their taxonomic assignment. Zootaxa, 4590(5): 546–560. LINK
2020. Skejo J, Franjević D. Eukaryotes are a holophyletic group of polyphyletic origin. Frontiers in microbiology, 11(1380): 1–6. LINK
2021. Skejo J et al. Evidence for a syncytial origin of eukaryotes from ancestral state reconstruction. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(7), evab096. LINK
2022. Skejo J et al. Spiky pygmy devils: revision of the genus Discotettix (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and synonymy of Discotettiginae with Scelimeninae. Zootaxa, 5217(1): 1–64. LINK
2023. Kasalo N et al. DNA Barcoding of Pygmy Hoppers—The First Comprehensive Overview of the BOLD Systems’ Data Shows Promise for Species Identification. Diversity, 15(6): 696. LINK
2024. Kasalo N et al. An Overview of Orthoptera Mass Occurrences in Croatia from 1900 to 2023. Insects, 15(2): 82. LINK
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