Rafael Jordana, Full Professor emeritus of Physiology and Zoology at the University of Navarra, has been recognized by the journal Soil Organism as one of the leading experts on springtails in history.

Soil Organism is an international journal that collects articles from research original articles on soil organic biology. A December 2020 article "Towards a global synthesis of Collembola knowledge - challenges and potential solutions" addresses the current status of Collembola taxonomy, new technologies for species identification, improvements in collecting data, as well as the main challenges facing research in this subject of soil microarthropods.

Among the issues mentioned in this article are the species described for Science, where Professor Jordana is in seventh place in the ranking of scientists in history who have described more species of springtails for science, with more than 247.

A degree program at the service of Science, as researcher, manager and professor.

Rafael Jordana (Zaragoza, 1941) graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Barcelona and received his PhD from the University of Navarra. Among the merits attributed to Professor Jordana are the two Chairs he obtained for civil service examination in Animal Physiology and in Applied Zoology at the School of Sciences of the University of La Laguna in 1971.

In addition to his work dedicated to the teaching and research, and his numerous publications of articles and books, Jordana has assumed other responsibilities at the level of the management throughout his degree program: Dean of the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra (1981-1990), director of the department of Zoology (1972-1999), promoter and director of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Navarra (1980-2011) as well as audits in food companies, among many others.

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Potapov, A.; Bellini, B.; Chown, S.; Deharveng, S.; Janssens, F.; Kováč, L.; Kuznetsova, N.; Ponge, J-F.; Potapov, M.; Querner, P.; Russell, D.; Sun, X.; Zhang, F.; Berg, M. (2020). Towards a global synthesis of Collembola knowledge - challenges and potential solutions. Soil Organisms, 92 (3), pp. 161-188. DOI: doi.org/10.25674/so92iss3pp161.