Rafael Jordana offers a seminar on biodiversity at the School Agraria of the University of Catania.

Rafael Jordana together with the professors of the University of Catania Pietro Alicata and Luca Giuga, during their stay in the Italian center. PHOTO: Courtesy

Rafael Jordana, professor of the department of Zoology and Ecology of the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra, has given a seminar on the biodiversity of the forests of Navarra at the School Agraria of the Universitá degli Studi di Catania.

Among other events in which he participated in the Italian center, the director of the Science Museum was part, as an expert member, of a tribunal in which three doctoral thesis were defended.

Rafael Jordana is also Honorary Professor of the Ricardo Palma University of Lima, director of the Institute of Applied Biology of the University and founder of the journal "Publicaciones de Biología de la Universidad de Navarra. Zoological Series". Also, Dr. Jordana has published more than 230 articles and is a scientist of reference letter in the study of soil fauna, which is why he was invited to give this seminar in Catania.