Carlos Juan Clar (Palma, 1959) graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Barcelona (June 1982) and received a PhD in Biology from the University of the Balearic Islands (July 1988). Lecturer of Genetics (1999) and since 2009 Full Professor of Genetics at the UIB in the Department of Biology. He was post-doctoral fellow at the University os East Anglia (UK) in the 1990 and from 1994 to 1995 (Fellow of the Human Resources and Mobility Program of the Europan Union). Visiting professor at the University of South Australia (Australia), University of East Anglia (UK) and Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China) during the 2009-10 academic year.

Author of 86 scientific papers, 72 in indexed scientitic journlas (Publons, Web of Science) and researcher or PI in 22 scientific financed projects.

Scientific interests: Evolutionary biology, Molecular Systematics, Biogeography, Molecular Evolution.

Recent publications

Zapelloni, F., Pons, J., Jurado-Rivera, J.A., Jaume, D., Juan, C. Phylogenomics of the Hyalella amphipod species-flock of the Andean Altiplano. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11(1), 366.

Zapelloni, F., Jurado-Rivera, J.A., Jaume, D., Juan, C., Pons, J. Comparative mitogenomics in Hyalella (Amphipoda: Crustacea). Genes, 2021, 12(2), pp. 1-20, 292.

Jaume, D., Zapelloni, F., Pons, J., Juan, C., Jurado-Rivera, J.A. The Hyalella species flock of Lake Titicaca (Crustacea: Amphipoda): Perspectives and drawbacks of DNA-based Identification. Contributions to Zoology, 2021, 125(1), pp. 1-54.

Jurado-Rivera, J.A., Zapelloni, F., Pons, J., Juan, C., Jaume, D. Morphological and molecular species boundaries in the Hyalella species flock of Lake Titicaca (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Contributions to Zoology, 2020, 89(4), pp. 353-372.

Pons, J., Jurado-Rivera, J.A., Jaume, D., ...Bauzà-Ribot, M.M., Juan, C. The age and diversification of metacrangonyctid subterranean amphipod crustaceans revisited. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2019, 140, 106599.

Hesselberg, T., Simonsen, D., Juan, C. Do cave orb spiders show unique behavioural adaptations to subterranean life? A review of the evidence. Behaviour, 2019, 156(10), pp. 969-996.