Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s)
Adorian Ardelean
Address(es)
12, Răscoala din 1907, 300523, Timișoara, Romania
Telephone(s)
+40256218177
Mobile:
+40733692657
Fax(es)
+40256218177
aardelean@mybiosis.info
Nationality
Romanian
Occupational field
Biodiversity & Taxonomy Informatics, Biologist
Work experience
Dates
2012 – present (external collaborator)
Occupation or position held
Invertebrates, Amphibia & Reptiles expert
Main activities and responsibilities
Inventory and cartography of invertebrata, amphibia and reptile fauna in Nera Gorges National Park. Involved in collecting data, preparing GIS data, writing the management plan.
Name and address of employer
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr. 119, 300645 Timisoara, jud. Timis, Romania
Type of business or sector
Education
Dates
2006-2011 (full time) 2011-pesent (part-time)
Occupation or position held
Biodivesity & Taxonomy IT Researcher, Head of Office
Main activities and responsibilities
Development of web-based scientific software, development of Plankton*Net (http://planktonnet.awi.de/) and OrgaCount (http://orgacount.com/) and biodivDP framework
Name and address of employer
AquaEcology GmbH & Co. KG (http://aquaecology.de/), main office at Marie-Curie-Strasse 1, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany & IT office Stresemannstrasse 46, 27570, Bremerhaven Germany
Type of business or sector
Education, SME
Dates
2005-2006
Occupation or position held
Bioinformatics Taxonomist
Main activities and responsibilities
Development of micro*scope, a communal web site that promotes information on the biodiversity of microbes (http://microscope.mbl.edu); tasks: web-based taxonomic services developer.
Developent of uBio, an initiative within the science library community to join international efforts to create and utilize a comprehensive and collaborative catalog of known names of all living (and once-living) organisms (http://www.ubio.org/); tasks: bioinformatics taxonomist, technical development.
Name and address of employer
Marine Biological Laboratory (http://www.mbl.edu/), Woods Hole, MA, USA
Type of business or sector
Education, Research Organisation
Dates
2003 - 2005
Occupation or position held
Lecturer
Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching Invertebrate Zoology & Bioinformatics (class & labs)
Name and address of employer
West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Chemistry-Biology-Geography, Department of Biology
Type of business or sector
Education
Dates
1998-2003
Occupation or position held
Research Assistant, Curatorial Assistant
Main activities and responsibilities
RA under Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET, NSF) & National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) grants;
Development of Hexacorallians of the World portal & database (http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm); tasks: development, synonymy, classification, web interface, factotum.
Development of Syngraph (http://web.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/syngraph/beta/index.htm,
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02283p039.pdf); tasks: idea, concept, development.
Tree of Life (http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Anthozoa&contgroup=Cnidaria), Internet pages for phylum Cnidaria; tasks: technical assistance, development.
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System (http://www.itis.gov/); task: provide classification of valid species within Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, and Ceriantharia.
Research on systematics of tropical Indo-Pacific sea anemone family Actinodendridae (Anthozoa: Actiniaria).
CA on invertebrate collection (The University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Division of Invertebrate Zoology); tasks: development of collection database, curatorial activities, identification of sea anemones.
Name and address of employer
The University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Division of Invertebrate Zoology & The University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, USA.
Type of business or sector
Education
Dates
1995-1998
Occupation or position held
Teaching Assistant
Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching labs for Invertebrate Zoology & The Gathering, Preservation and Preparation of Biological Material
Name and address of employer
West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Chemistry-Biology-Geography, Department of Biology
Type of business or sector
Education
Education and training
Dates
1998 - 2003
Title of qualification awarded
Ph.D.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
Taxonomy & Systematics
Name and type of organisation providing education and training
The University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS, USA
Level in national or international classification
Ph.D.
Dates
1990-1995
Title of qualification awarded
University education in general Biology
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
General biology
Name and type of organisation providing education and training
West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Chemistry-Biology-Geography, Department of Biology, Timisoara, Romania
Level in national or international classification
Licence in Biology
Dates
1985-1989
Title of qualification awarded
Baccalaureate
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
Chemistry-Biology
Name and type of organisation providing education and training
Liceul de Filologie-Istorie, Timisoara, Romania
Level in national or international classification
Baccalaureate
Publications
Ardelean A., Kervin K., Kansakar S., and Fautin D. G. 2009. Syngraph: An application for graphic display and interactive use of synonym lists. Zootaxa, 2283: 29-39. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02283p039.pdf
Ardelean A. and Fautin D. G. 2004. A new species of the sea anemone Megalactis (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Actinodendridae) from Taiwan and designation of a neotype for the type species of the genus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 117(4):488-504. http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/pdf/Ardelean_Fautin_Megalactis.pdf
Daly M., Ardelean A., Cha H-R., Campbell C. A., and Fautin D. G. 2004. A new species, Adamsia n.sp. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria), from the Gulf of Mexico, and a discussion of the taxonomy of carcinoecium-forming sea anemones. Bulletin of Marine Science. 72(2): 385-399. http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/pdf/adamsia_obvolva.pdf
Ardelean A. and Fautin D. G. 2004. Variability in nematocysts from a single individual of Actinodendron arboreum (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinodendridae). Hydrobiologia (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Hydrobiologia 530/531: 189-197. http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/pdf/Ardelean_Fautin_nematocysts2004.pdf
Ardelean A 2003. Reinterpretation of some tentacular structures in actinodendronid and thalassianthid sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 345: 31-40.
Ardelean A. 2002. Environmental GIS modeling of distribution patterns in Actinodendron plumosum, a sea anemone with a large geographic range. Eos (Trans. AGU), Ocean Sci. Mtg. Suppl. 83:OS42C-141. http://web.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/posters_online/adorian_osm_2002/index.htm
Oral presentations
Ardelean A. (25 November 2011) – mybiosis.info: an online environment dedicated to biodiversity in Romania. Soluții libere open source pentru prelucrarea si reprezentarea datelor geospatiale. Timisoara. http://geospatial.org
Ardelean A. (25-29 May 2009) - Management of taxonomic and distributional data for Lepidoptera with myBiOSis biodiversity online desktop. 16th European Congress of Lepidopterology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Kraberg, A. Ardelean, A. Macario, B. Onken, D. Vaulot, F. Jouenne, A. Amorim, T. Moita, J. Young, K. H. Wiltshire (02-04 October 2007) - PLANKTON*NET: A versatile online database system for marine biodiversity, Ocean Biodiversity Informatics International Conference, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Ardelean A. (23-27 April 2007) - biodiversity Data Provider [biodivDP]. PEG-HELCOM Meeting in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Ardelean A. (28-30 March 2007) - myNature an initiative for an e-biodivesity infrastructure. Role of focal points network in taxonomic research, Congress Centre, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia.
Kraberg, A. , Vaulot, D. , Patterson, D. J. , Ardelean, A. , Amorim, A. , Macario, A. , Probert, I. , Young, J. , Moita, T. and Wiltshire, K. H. (2006) PLANKTON*NET A distributed online taxonomic database system: Its benefits for Harmful Algal Research, 12 International Conference on Harmful Algae, 4-8 Sept. Kopenhagen, Denmark. .
Daly M., Ardelean A., and Cha H-R (26 May 2004) - Diversity and Systematics of Sea Anemones of northern Oman: preliminary results of a 3 week survey. The Department of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Ardelean A. (10 July 2003) - Variability in nematocysts from a single individual of Actinodendron arboreum (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinodendridae). The 7th International Conference on Ceoelnterate Biology. University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Ardelean A. (1 July 2002) - Predicted geographic distributions aid taxonomic decisions within sea anemone genus Actinodendron (Anthozoa: Actiniaria). Evolution Meeting. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ardelean A. (5 December 2001) - Syngraph. First OBIS Technical Workshop, Lawrence, Kansas.
Ardelean A. (15 April 2001) - Variability in the sea anemone genus Actinodendron (Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Actinodendronidae). SigmaXi Research Paper Competition.
Ardelean A. (6-8 November, 2000) - Syngraph: Synonymy application. NOPP Grant Workshop held at University of Kansas, Haworth Hall (presenter).
Ardelean A. (21 October, 2000) - Tentacle branching pattern in the sea anemone genus Actinodendron (Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Actinodendronidae). The Fifth Graduate Student Research Retreat.
Ardelean A. (19 April 2000) - Tentacle branching pattern in the sea anemone family Actinodendronidae Haddon 1898. Museum Seminar: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum.
Ardelean A. (10 April 2000) - Tentacle branching pattern in the sea anemone family Actinodendronidae Haddon 1898. SigmaXi Research Paper Competition.
Fautin D.G., Bartley J., Henning J., Fullerton M.D., and Ardelean A. (November 3-4, 1999) - An Electronic Atlas of Sea Anemones. Ocean Biogeographical Information Systems (OBIS), Washington, D.C.
Ardelean A. (May 22, 1997) - Computer Analysis of Behavioural Links. Academic Days of Timisoara, Romanian Academy, branch Timisoara.
Posters
Ardelean A. (25-29 May 2009) - Management of taxonomic and distributional data for Lepidoptera with myBiOSis biodiversity online desktop. 16th European Congress of Lepidopterology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ardelean A.(2007). biodivDP - a biodiversity information system with applicability in ocean science, Ocean Biodiversity Informatics International Conference, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 02-04 October 2007, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://marinebiodiversity.ca/OBI07/posters/hidden/Ardelean.jpg
Kraberg A., Vaulot D., Patterson D. J., Ardelean A., Amorim A., Macario A., Probert I., Young J., Moita T., Wiltshire K. H.(2006). PLANKTON*NET A distributed online taxonomic database system: Its benefits for Harmful Algal Research, 12 International Conference on Harmful Algae, 4-8 Sept. Kopenhagen, Denmark. http://www.planktonnet.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/PLANKTON_hab.pdf
Patterson D. J. and Ardelean A. (2006). Taxonomic intelligence - adding taxonomic expertise to web tools to unify access to information about organisms. OS15H-13, AGU-ASLO Meeting in February 2006 http://mybiosis.org/nature/db/articles/AGU_meeting_1/patterson_ardelean_ASLO_2.png
Buddemeier R., Fautin D., Iqbal I., Ardelean A., Guinotte J., Shankaran G., Bartley J., and Sandhei P. (10-11 July 2003) - Hexacoral biogeography: serving and linking geospatial bio-environmental data. The 7th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology. University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Ardelean A. (7-8 July 2003) - Morphological and color variability of the sea anemone Actinodendron arboreum (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinodendridae). The 7th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology. University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Ardelean A. (28 June 2002) - Environmental GIS modeling of distribution patterns in Actinodendron plumosum, a sea anemone with a large geographic range. Evolution Meeting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ardelean A., Fautin D.G., and Hunsinger K. (April 7, 2001) - Managing taxonomic synonyms. Kansas Academy of Science, Lawrence, Kansas.
Ardelean A., Fautin D.G., and Hunsinger K. (January 5, 2001) - Managing taxonomic synonyms. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Chicago.
Ardelean A. (March, 2000) - Tentacle branching pattern in the sea anemone family Actinodendridae Haddon 1898. Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET), Conference on The Monographic Process, Washington DC, March, 2000.
Ardelean A. (January, 2000) - Tentacle branching pattern in the sea anemone family Actinodendridae Haddon 1898. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Atlanta.
Fautin D.G., Fullerton M.D., Bartley J., and Ardelean A. (November 18, 1999) - Sea Anemone Distributions and their Environmental Correlates. Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Fourth Open Science Meeting, Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
Ardelean A. (December 12,1997) - Anthozoa Encyclopaedia. The 2nd International Symposium Interdisciplinary Zonal Research, Romanian Ministry of Research and Technology & Romanian Academy Timisoara Branch Office.
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s)
Romanian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment
Understanding
Speaking
Writing
European level (*)
Listening
Reading
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
English
Advanced
Superior
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
French
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Novice
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Organisational skills and competences
Coordinator and developer of Nature Digital Object Repository (NDOR http://mybiosis.info/) a collaborative project with the main aim on inventory of wildlife and natural landscape: creation of maps and illustrations for each species that occur in Romania and not only.
Coordinator and developer of myBiOSis biodiversity web toolkit (http://mybiosis.info/mynos/) a framework and a collection of web-based scientific applications that interact with NDOR database.
Technical skills and competences
Software programming skills in php, javascript, jquery, html/html5, css, mobile development. Databasing in mysql, sqlite, websql, MS Access. Various web-based GIS tools (OpenLayers, GMT, etc.). Competences acquired during graduate school or in various professional activities within projects (mybiosis.info & NDOR, Hexacorallians of The World, uBio, Plankton*net, Micro*scope etc.); . Various technical skills employed in taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny: histology, DNA preparation for sequencing, optical & SEM microscopy etc. Competences acquired during graduate school.
Computer skills and competences
Linux/Windows. Office Suite (Open Office, MS Office), Graphics (Gimp, Photoshop, Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator...)...
Other skills and competences
Scuba Diving PADI, Nature Photography
Driving licence
YES. category B.