Jan van Tol, a born manager in entomology

摘要

Jan became a member of The Netherlands Entomological Society (NEV) around 1980. When be visited his secondary school he was already interested in aquatic entomology. He finished his biology study at the Leiden University in 1976. Between 1977 and 1986 Jan was the coordinator of EIS-Nederland. In that time he became involved in the research work of DC Geijskes on dragonflies. In 1986 he got the opportunity to become a curator of the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden (= currently Naturalis). His research field is the diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of Odonata of Southeast Asia. Jan was president of the NEV from 1998 to 2008.