Rate My Professor Alexander Arkhipkin

Dr. Alexander Arkhipkin serves as honorary and adjunct staff in the Department of Marine Science at the University of Otago. He is a Principal Scientist and Senior Fisheries Scientist with the Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Department in Stanley, Falkland Islands, where he has headed the Scientific Section since 1998, leading scientific research and providing management advice for commercial cephalopod and finfish stocks around the Falklands. Arkhipkin graduated from the Biological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University and defended his PhD thesis titled 'Age and growth of the squid of family Ommastrephidae' in 1989 at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow. Prior to joining the Falklands fisheries department, he spent 16 years at the Atlantic Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO) in Kaliningrad, Russia, investigating the biology, ecology, and fisheries of cephalopods across the Northwest Atlantic, tropical Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, Northwest Pacific, tropical Pacific, and Southeast Pacific. In 1995, he worked as Visiting Professor at Istituto di Tecnologia della Pesca e del Pescato in Mazara del Vallo, Italy, focusing on population parameters and abundance of Mediterranean squid. In 2015, he held the William Evans Visiting Fellowship at the University of Otago.