Department: Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology

Faculty: Faculty of Biology

Area: Zoology

Research group: Biodiversity and marine resources

Email: vituco.urgorri@usc.es

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Opistobranquios de Galicia estudio faunístico y zoogeográfico 1981. Supervised by Dr. Celso Rodríguez Babío.

Victoriano Urgorri is Emeritus Full Professor of Marine Zoology, research of the Marine Biological Station of A Graña and coordinate the research group: Biodiversity and Marine Resources (BIOMAR) at the USC. For 49 years I have been working in different fields of Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, mainly Taxonomy, Anatomy and Ecology of littoral, bathyal and abyssal Invertebrates, mostly in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula). I also research: Invasive Species, Zooarchaeology, Wildlife Conservation, Musseolgy, etc