Csaba Csuzdi currently is a Professor of Zoology at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary. He graduated from from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest in 1984 (MSc in biology) and earned his PhD (Candidate of Science) in 1994. He was awarded a DSc title in 2007 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main research field is soil zoology, especially phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy and ecology of earthworms. His activity covers, apart from the Holarctic region, Africa and South America as well. He has intensively researched the composition and origin of the East Mediterranean earthworm fauna and demonstrated that the highly dynamic plate tectonic history of the East Mediterranean region had a profound impact on the earthworm species composition of the region. During his more than 30 years of research Csaba Csuzdi authored more than 200 scientific publication including 2 books and some 140 journal articles.