Luiz A. Rocha

Luiz Alves Rocha is the Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences.[1] He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California Santa Cruz[2] and San Francisco State University.[3]

Luiz A. Rocha
Born
Joao Pessoa, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Federal University of Paraiba
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Evolutionary biology
Ichthyology
InstitutionsCalifornia Academy of Sciences

Education

Rocha has obtained a PhD in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Florida, and a BS in Biology and Masters in Zoology from the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil. He also conducted post-doctoral work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the University of Hawaii.

Career

Rocha has authored one book[4] and more than 150 scientific articles.[5] He is best known for his work in speciation in coral reef fishes[6] using advanced genomic methodologies to understand fish evolution,[7] and more recently has been actively exploring the diversity of deep coral reefs throughout the tropics.[8] In 2019 he won the inaugural Margaret M. Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence in Ichthyology or Herpetology for his scientific contributions and scholarly impacts on the field of ichthyology. [9]

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Luiz A. Rocha

References
  1. "Profile: Luiz A. Rocha". 2016.
  2. "Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty". www.eeb.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  3. "CAS Research Professors | SFSU Department of Biology". biology.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  4. Kells, Valerie A.; Rocha, Luiz A.; Allen, Larry G. (2016-01-22). A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421418322.
  5. "Luiz A. Rocha - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  6. Rocha, Luiz A.; Robertson, D. Ross; Roman, Joe; Bowen, Brian W. (2005-03-22). "Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 272 (1563): 573–579. doi:10.1098/2004.3005. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1564072. PMID 15817431.
  7. Gaither, Michelle R.; Bernal, Moisés A.; Coleman, Richard R.; Bowen, Brian W.; Jones, Shelley A.; Simison, W. Brian; Rocha, Luiz A. (2015-04-01). "Genomic signatures of geographic isolation and natural selection in coral reef fishes". Molecular Ecology. 24 (7): 1543–1557. doi:10.1111/mec.13129. ISSN 1365-294X. PMID 25753379.
  8. Rocha, Luiz A.; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Shepherd, Bart; Papastamatiou, Yannis P.; Luiz, Osmar J.; Pyle, Richard L.; Bongaerts, Pim (2018-07-20). "Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs". Science. 361 (6399): 281–284. Bibcode:2018Sci...361..281R. doi:10.1126/science.aaq1614. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30026226.
  9. "Stewart Award | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists". asih.org. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
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