Dr Christoph Schwitzer has been Chief Zoological Officer and Deputy Chief Executive of the Bristol Zoological Society (BZS) since August 2018, with Executive Board responsibility for BZS’s two animal collections at Bristol Zoo Gardens and the Wild Place Project, as well as its veterinary services, its Institute of Conservation Science and Learning (including the Learning, and Field Conservation and Science departments), its public programming, and for Wild Place Project’s general daily operations. Prior to this he was BZS’s Director of Conservation for four years (2014–2018) and Head of Research for eight years (2006–2014). Before coming to Bristol, Christoph worked as part of the primatological research group at Cologne Zoo, Germany, and spent two years in Madagascar building a field station and heading a lemur research and conservation programme. Christoph gained his PhD in Zoology from the University of Cologne in 2003 and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England since 2013. He is the Deputy Chair and Red List Authority Coordinator of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group. He was a Vice President of the International Primatological Society between 2012 and 2016 and is currently the Vice President of the Association Européenne pour l’Etude et la Conservation des Lémuriens, a consortium of European zoos dedicated to lemur conservation. He is a trustee of the Natural History Consortium, serves on the Council of BIAZA and is a member of the EAZA Research Committee and the EAZA Prosimian TAG, and adviser to the EAZA Callitrichidae TAG.

Rodin Rasoloarison obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Antananarivo, Department of Paleontology and Anthropology, in 2000 for his taxonomic revision of Madagascarʼs mouse lemurs (Microcebus). He has since continued to study the taxonomy and biogeography of cheirogaleids in the field and in museum collections around the world. He co-authored the 2nd and 3rd editions of Lemurs of Madagascar. He is presently the National Coordinator for the German Primate Center (DPZ - Madagascar).

Domaines d’expertise/Area of expertise: Taxonomy, species distribution and occurrences

Espèces étudiées / Species: Cheirogaleids: Microcebus, Mirza,  Cheirogaleus

Depuis 2001 à ce jour

- Coordinateur de recherche de l’Institut de zoologie (TiHo), Université de médecine vétérinaire de Hanovre, Allemagne.

Depuis 2008 à ce jour

- Enseignant chercheur permanent à la Faculté des Sciences de Technologie et de l’Environnement, Université de Mahajanga. 

Depuis 2012 à ce jour 

-  Membre du comité d'évaluation de mémoire d’HDR de la Faculté des Sciences, de Technologies et de l'Environnement, Université de Mahajanga.

- Responsable de l’équipe d’accueil Biodiversité animale, écologie et conservation de l’Ecole doctorale Ecosystèmes Naturels (EDEN) de l’Université de Mahajanga.

Depuis 2016 à ce jour

Vice-Président de l'Université de Mahajanga