The Research Database
Researchers and institutions with projects and interest in Soqotra are listed here alphabetically.
| Dr. Abdulraqeb Al-Okaishi | Mendel University Brno, Czech Republic, and Environmental Protection Authority, Hadiboh, Soqotra/Yemen | Threats and management of Dracaena cinnabari trees | http://www.mendelu.cz |
| Dr. Tilmann J. Alpermann | Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt a.M., Germany | Reconstructing re-colonisation patterns and processes in the Red Sea Basin | https://www.senckenberg.de/ |
| Dr. Fabio Attorre | Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Environmental Biology, Italy | Analysis of ecological and biological features of plant species and communities, and their conservation. | www.uniroma1.it |
| Dr. Salvador Caranza | Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain | Origin and diversification of the geckos of the Soqotra Archipelago | http://molevol.cmima.csic.es |
| Dr. Gianniantonio Domina | Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum, University of Palermo | Botany of Soqotra | www.herbmedit.org |
| Ron Felix | Center of Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands | Carabidae of Soqotra | http://www.naturalis.nl/ |
| Dr. Alan Forrest | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (CMEP), UK | Conservation of the flora of Soqotra | www.rbge.org.uk |
| Dr. Hana Habrová | Mendel University Brno, Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocenology, Czech Republic | Support of small-scale farming and agricultural education on Soqotra Island | http://www.mendelu.cz |
| Bc.Ing. Irena Hubálková | Mendel University Brno, Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocenology, Czech Republic | Vegetation studies focusing on Dracaena cinnabari Balf. and education systems on Soqotra | http://www.mendelu.cz |
| Dr-Ing. Vladimir Hula | Mendel University Brno, Czech Republic | Spiders and beetles of Soqotra Island | http://www.mendelu.cz |
| Dr. Edouard Lavergne | Plastik At Sea, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France | Ecology and genetics of estuarine fish communities | Plastic(@)Sea |
| Prof. Dr. Roman Loimeier | University of Göttingen, Institute of Ethnology, Germany | Soqotra history, ecological crisis, climate change, society and globalisation | http://www.uni-goettingen.de |
| Dr. Petr Madera | Mendel University Brno, Chzech Republic | Soqotran Boswellia species investigation based on chemical analyses of resins | http://www.mendelu.cz |
| Vladimir Melnik | Independant researcher, Moscow, Russia | Ancient history of Socotra - research & protection of archaeological sites
Tahrir (wild goats) protection. |
https://www.academia.edu |
| Dr. Miranda Morris | University of St. Andrews, UK | The language and ethnography of Soqotra | |
| Dr. Nathalie Peutz | Program in Arab Crossroads Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi/UAE | Cultural heritage; cultural and social effects of development projects on Socotra | http://nyuad.academia.edu |
| Dr. Richard Porter | BirdLife International | Birds of Soqotra - taxonomy, identification, distribution and populations | http://www.birdlife.org |
| Prof. Francesco M. Raimondo | Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum, University of Palermo | Botany of Soqotra | www.herbmedit.org |
| Prof. Dr. Tom Schills | University of Guam, Herbarium | Marine plant communities of upwelling areas within the Arabian Sea | https://www.uog.edu |
| Dr. Jürgen Schmidt | Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Germany | Analysis of natural products of Soqotra by mass spectrometry | http://www.ipb-halle.de |
| Prof. Dr. Ingo Strauch | Université de Lausanne, Faculté des Lettres, Switzerland | Indian traders on Soqotra in the early centuries of our era - The evidence from Hoq cave | http://www.unil.ch | Ahmed Saeed Suleiman | Environmental Protection Authority, Hadiboh, Soqotra/Yemen | Birds on Soqotra |
| Dr. Kay Van Damme | University of Ghent, Belgium | Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of cladocerans, and impacts on biodiversity | |
| Dr. Julian Jansen Van Rensburg | Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh and Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (CMEP), UK (Research Associate) - Cultural Heritage Management, Archaeology, Ethnography, and History of Soqotra | Protecting the Rock Art of Soqotra Project
The Islamic Fortifications Project on Soqotra Mitigating climate change effects through traditional land management practices on Soqotra Building a sustainable future for the traditional crafts of Soqotra Revealing the Population History of Soqotra with Ancient DNA |
https://independent.academia.edu |
| Dr. Wolfgang Wranik | University of Rostock, Department of Biology, Germany | Fauna of the Soqotra Archipelago | http://www.biologie.uni-rostock.de |
| Dr. Uwe Zajonz | Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt a.M., Germany | Taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of coastal fish communities
Marine conservation, sustainable small-scale fisheries, and adaptive management of coastal ecosystem services |
http://socotra.senckenberg.de/FishAtlas/ |
Previous projects
Researchers currently may not be conducting research on Soqotra
| Vladimir Agafonov | Independant researcher, Moscow, Russia | Soqotri language, folk tales and history | |
| Dr. Lisa Banfield | Isle of Wight, UK | Botany and impacts on plant diversity |
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| Dr. Friedrich Beyhl | Independant researcher, Frankfurt a.M., Germany | Dracaena cinnabari | |
| Jaap Bouwmaan | Forest Support Groups, Ede, The Netherlands | Insects on Soqotra | |
| Peter De Geest | Independant researcher, Ghent, Belgium | Soqotra Karst Project | |
| Rob Felix | Independant researcher, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Orthoptera of Soqotra | |
| Dr. Rebecca Klaus | Ecology of coral communities, remote sensing of spatio-temporal benthic community dynamics | ||
| Dr. Sabina Knees | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (CMEP), UK | Botany of Soqotra | www.rbge.org.uk |
| PD Dr. Bruno Mies | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | Vegetation Ecology of Soqotra | |
| Prof. Dr. Abdul-Karim Nasher | Sana'a University, Department of Biology, Yemen | Sea turtle conservation through community awareness and capacity building | |
| Prof. Dr. Vitaly V. Naumkin | Head of the International Center for Strategic and Political Studies in Moscow, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Moscow State University, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science | Linguist, political history and political strategy | https://www.ivran.ru/enu |
| Dr. Eike Neubert | Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland | Taxonomy of the land and freshwater molluscs of the Socotran Archipelago | https://www.nmbe.ch/de |
| Dr. Dana Pietsch | University of Tübingen, Reasearch Area f Geography, and Asylum centre Tuebingen (since 2017), Germany | Soil degradation and soil-plant-monitoring | https://www.geo.uni-tuebingen.de/ |
| Prof. Dr. Alexander V. Sedov | The State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow, Russia | Archaeology of Soqotra Island and Hadramawd | |
| Dr. Raquel Vasconcelos | CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, and Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) Barcelona, Spain | Combining ecological modelling techniques with morphological and genetic data for assisting conservation planning using insular vertebrates (especially reptiles) as privileged models |