Curriculum vitae
 

Name: Manuel Ortiz Touzet
Birth date: 2 sept. 1944
Citizenship: Cuban
Education: Ph. D. 1976. University of
Bucharest-Institute of Biology- Grigore Antipa
Natural History Museum, Bucharest, Roumania
Licenciado en Ciencias Biológicas (Marine Biology).
1969, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana.
Languages: English, Roumanian, Portuguese.
Career appointments: 1969-present. Assistant and
Titular Professor at Centre for Marine Research,
University of Havana.
Head Department of Marine Biology, at Faculty of
Biology, Havana University 1976-1987.
Expeditionary and Field Research: Leadership of the
two joint Cuba-Spain Scientific Expeditions on board
of the R/V ¨Felipe Poey¨ to the Western Cuban
Archipelago in 1985 and 1987.
Aquanauta at the joint Cuba-URSS Expedition on board
of the R/V ¨Rift¨, by using the ¨Argus¨ wet sumersible
(600 m depth), in the Western Cuban Archipelago, in
1985.
Participant in the two joint Cuba-USA Expeditions to
the Northeastern and Southwestern Cuban waters,
working with the Carcinology team, from the Division
of Crustacea, United States National Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, in 1994-1995 (isopods,
amphipods, and decopods).
Participant in the International Meeting ¨State of the
knowledge of the Amphipoda in Mexico¨, organized by
the UNAM, and Institute of Biology, Mexico D.F., in
1995.
Head of the Scientific investigations on the
Systematic and Ecology of marine invertebrate Benthos,
with special interest on Peracarid crustaceans.
Director of Benthic marine investigations, with
special references to Peracarid Crustaceans, carried
out at the Florida Gulf waters, USA; the Campeche Bank
and the Lagunar system at Veracruz, Mexico; the
Pacific Nicaragua; The Iberica Peninsula; the Libian
waters, at the Mediterranean Sea; the Western Indian
Ocean (Mozambique); the Eastern Indian Ocean
(Indonesia); and on going investigation at the Island
of Coiba, at the Pacific Panama
Grants: Natural History Museum “Grigore Antipa” ,
Bucharest and, Roumanian Centre for Marine Research,
Constanza, in 1972-1973; l976; l985 (Carcinology).
Division of Crustacea, National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., in
l993 (Peracarid crustaceans).National Museum of
Natural Sciences, Spain, 2000.
Teaching record: Professor of Zoology, Zoobenthos,
Carcinology and Comparative Zoology of Vertebrates at:
Faculty of Biology and Centre for Marine Research,
University of Havana; University “E.Mondlane” ,
Maputo, Mozambique; Universidad of Managua, Nicaragua
(Leon Campus); UAM University of Madrid, Spain, UNAM
University of Mexico (Iztacala Campus)
Publications: More than 150 papers on Zoobenthos,
Systematic an Ecology of invertebrate marine,
anchialine , and freshwater epi or hypogean
invertebrate animals, with special interest on
Peracarid Crustaceans, with the description of more
than 60 new species, and some genera for Science, and
hundreds of new records for many different areas of
the World Ocean, and the description of 3 devices for
sampling the marine Benthos.