. research

I am a Research Entomologist for Diptera at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, D.C. where my work is focused on deciphering the diversity and evolutionary history of flies.

. systematics and diversity of Diptera: in particular species of Asiloidea (8,100+ species) employing both morphological and genomic data to decipher their evolutionary history

. revisionary taxonomy: discovering and describing new + re-describing known taxa and developing and employing cybertaxonomic tools

. biodiversity data: sharing of all research data through open-access data repositories -- I am a GBIF Biodiversity Open Data Ambassador

. natural history collection digitization: specimen-level data capture, specimen photography through both individual and conveyor-type systems, data standards, and sharing natural history museum object data

. comparative biology: training undergraduate students in morphological collections-based research

. access to publications + research data at ORCiD

. staff page at NMNH

. asiloid flies web-site -- new site under construction (asiloidflies.si.edu not accessible anymore)

. asiloid flies blog

. scientific publications -- new site under construction (asiloidflies.si.edu not accessible anymore)

. iNaturalist tdikow

. ZooBank Torsten Dikow

. Bionomia Torsten Dikow