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Diving in Darwin, Australia (Photo Chris Glasby).

Torkild Bakken, Dr scient. Associate professor Museum of Natural History and Archaeology Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim Norway Phone: +47 73 59 23 82, fax: +47 73 59 22 49

I hold a position as senior curator of marine invertebrates. Our marine collections are in the final stages of being registered in the museum database.

Research Interests
Polychaetes
My research is dealing with the systematics and phylogeny of the polychaete families Nereididae and Sphaerodoridae.

Nudibranchia
Another great interest is nudibranchs that I study in collaboration with Jussi Evertsen. We are currently studying occurrence and biodiversity of nudibranchs in coastal areas in Central Norway. A paper with results from more than seven years field work have just been published. Read more abouth this in our nudibranch pages.

Rajid phylogeny
I collaborate with Dag Altin and Anita Kaltenborn in a project of occurence of Raja montagui in Norway. This has later been developed into collaboration with Paola Passolini and her group at the Univeristy of Bologna, Italy who are doing a phylogeny of skates in the North Atlantic. So far our part in this project is studying morphological variation of rajids in Central Norway and obtain material for Paola.