Advances in Cephalopod Research

Rui Rosa graduated in Marine Biology by Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL), in 1999 and completed a PhD degree in Biology by the same institution in 2005. Rosa has authored 214 papers in international peer reviewed journals and has an H-index of 39. Rosa has also authored 2 books, 11 book chapters, and edited 2 books. Rosa’s research seeks to understand how future environmental changes, such as global warming, ocean acidification, deoxygenation/hypoxia, affect marine biodiversity, at different levels of biological organization, with a special focus on cephalopods.

I am a marine biologist and ecologist and I lead the MARIS research lab at the University of South Australia (www.marislab.org). I have over 10 years experience working with octopus and other cephalopods to support their conservation and sustainable management. I also use chemical fingerprints locked within the hard mineralised tissues of marine animals to understand how they move around, where they come from, and how the environment changes around them. As part of my current ARC Future Fellowship, I’ve taken these skills in marine ecology and geochemistry to develop better methods to track the provenance of seafood.

Michael, embarked on his PhD research in The Konrad Lorenz Institute, was interested in exploring the behavioral repertoire of octopus. In his thesis and in collaboration with several colleges he characterized specific patterns of behavior and during his time at Hebrew University of Jerusalem investigated neuroethology in cephalopods. Investigating the behavioral and cognitive abilities of non-model animals is one of the most important challenges! Collaboration with multiple disciplines and professional animal keeping helps research to not only understand evolution and development of behaviors but also to enrich and improve lives of animals!

James Cook University Townsville, Australia

University of Paraná Pontal do Paraná, Brazil

Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) Barcelona, Spain