Area of general interest: Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of teleost fishes.
Main group of interest: Siluriformes.
Education
M.Sc. (in progress) in Zoology, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2013-2015. Dissertation: “Revisão Taxonômica de bagres do complexo Trichomycterus reinhardti (Siluriformes:Trichomycteridae)”.
B.S. in Biology (Zoology), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Institute of Biology), 2012. Dissertation: “Duas novas espécies de bagres do gênero Trichomycterus da Bacia do Rio Paraná, sudeste do Brasil (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)”.
Papers published in scientific journals:
Axel M. Katz ; Barbosa, M. A. S. V. . Re-description of Trichomycterus cubataonisBizerril, 1994 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Cubatão river basin, southern Brazil. VertebrateZoology, v.64, p. 3-8, 2014.
Katz, A. M. ; Barbosa, M. A. S. V. ; COSTA, W. J. E. M. Two new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus from the Paraná river basin, southeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, v.23, p. 359-366, 2013.
Field experience (all include fish collections)
Brazil (2008-2014); over 60 field trips to coastal and main river basins.
Language Skills
Speaking knowledge of Portuguese, English; reading knowledge of Spanish and French.
Technical Skills
Expertise in dissections and preparation of cleared and stained material of small vertebrates for osteological studies.
Familiarity with several phylogenetic analysis programs.
Expertise in photography of fishes.
Familiarity with image processing programs.
Scientific Visits To Museum Collections
Museu de Biologia Mello-Leitão (September 2013).
Experience in academic classes:
Invited professor of “General and Aplied Ichthyology- Laboratory Techniques”, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2012 and 2013.
Social Projects
Conservação na escola: protegendo o mundo do peixe-de-nuvem [Conservation at the school: protecting the cloud-fish world], directed to school children of poor tropical regions of South America and Africa (primarily Brazil and Mozambique), to teach about diversity and conservation of cloud-fishes (endangered aplocheiloid killifishes), from 2012 to the present.