Boris Sket

Boris Sket (1936 to 2023) was a Slovenian zoologist and speleobiologist who studied the fauna of caves, above all the troglobionts of the Dinaric karst. He took his doctorate at the University of Ljubljana in 1961, became professor of invertebrate zoology at its Biotechnical faculty in 1965 and served as its dean from 1983 to 1985 and as the 37th rector of the university from 1989 to 1991. He described over a hundred new species, a few genera and a family of invertebrates, mostly crustaceans and leeches, and about 35 animal species are named sketi in his honour. He was president of the Caving Association of Slovenia and of the International Society of Subterranean Biology, and a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 2011.