Zoltán Barkaszi
National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine

Zoltán Barkaszi is a researcher at the Department of Palaeontology of the National Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He graduated from the Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine) and majored in zoology (2015). He was awarded a Ph.D. (2021) in zoology by the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine. In the focus of his thesis were muroid rodents of the Ukrainian Carpathians, particularly their cranial and dental morphology, patterns of distribution, habitat preferences, and species diversity. His current research interests include the systematics, morphology, paleobiology, paleoecology, paleobiogeography, and phylogeny of various groups of terrestrial and marine vertebrates, mainly mammals and chondrichthyans.