Dr. Shahin Nawai

Curriculum vitae

Dr. Shahin Nawai

1995 – 2007: Museum für Naturkunde-Berlin, Leibniz Institute für Evolutions and Biodiversity Research, Collection Manager, Arachnida and Miriapoda 

1995 – 1996: Museum für Naturkunde-Berlin, under Humboldt University Berlin. Mallophaga, Biting lice

1992 – 1995: Museum für Naturkunde-Berlin, under Humboldt University Berlin. Diptera Section, Research Fellow. Ceratopogonidae, Biting Midges

1979 - 1982: Tehran University, Iran. School of Public Health, Dept. Entomology. Professor of Medical Entomology and Insect Morphology.

1971 - 1977: Uni. Maryland, Colleg Park, MD. USA.  Dept. Entomology, (Ph.D.), Medical Entomology. Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Southwest Asia.

1966 - 1971: Tehran University, Iran. School of Public Health, Dept. Environmental Health, Research and Teaching Assistant.

1961 - 1966: Razi Institute, Hessarak, Iran. Dept. Veterinary Entomology, Research Assiatant.

1964 - 1966: Tehran University, Iran. School of Sciences, Dept. Biology, MSc., Biting Midges genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of Chahardongeh Karaj, Iran.

1960 - 1963: Tehran University, Iran. School of Sciences, Dept. Biology, (BSc).

Tasks

Honorary colleague in the collection Diptera

Research

Diptera
Systematic and phylogeny of Ceratopogonidae
Medical and veterinary Entomology
Insect morphology

Research projects

Biodiversity of the Ceratopogonidae in Italian Alpine Landscape
Ceratopogonidae of Afghanistan

Publications (selection)

Patricja Dominiaka, Shahin Navai, Robert Sawicki und Ryszard Szadziewski (2015). Forcipomyia altaica REMM, 1972, a boreo-montane biting midge in the Western Palaearctic (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology VOL. 84: 249-257. 30 December 2015.

Shahin Navai (1997). A new species of Brachypogon Kieffer from Afghanistan (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).  Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 18: 184-188.

Shahin Navai (1994). Biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea from Afghanistan, with descriptions of new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrrit 41: 357-399.

Willis W. Wirth, Shahin Navai (1978). Terminilogy of some Antennal Sensory Organ of Culicoides Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Journal of medical Entomology Vol. 15(1): 43-49.