Matija Gogala

Matija Gogala (born 1937) is a Slovene entomologist who works mainly on insect bioacoustics, physiology and taxonomy. He studied biology at the University of Ljubljana, graduating in 1960 and taking his doctorate in 1964, and became a full professor there in 1981, teaching animal physiology. He directed the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana from 1976 to 1979 and the Slovenian Museum of Natural History from 1992 to 2001. His research covers the physiology and behaviour of insect groups, and he contributed pioneering work on vibrational communication of bugs, a field known as biotremology, and on sound production in cicadas and its use in their taxonomy. He became a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1999.