Oana Moldovan

I am a speleologist, which means that I am working in caves as a scientist with interests in biology, ecology, paleoenvironment, climatology and conservation. I have graduated from the Babes Bolyai University of Cluj (Romania) in 1989 and after a short period as school teacher I started to work in the Institute of Speleology as research assistant. My PhD thesis defended in 1997 was on cave ecology at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, after four years of work on Romanian cave beetles and experiments in the cave–laboratory of Moulis (France). Since, I conducted researches on groundwater ecology, fossil cave invertebrates and cave conservation together with a group from the Institute of Speleology. After 2010, I started to work on the microorganisms from cave sediments as indicators of past environments. I am the author of several books on cave fauna, many papers on cave life and conservation issues and presented my results in many international scientific conferences.

October 2016