Pieter Vantieghem

Pieter Vantieghem works at the Terrestrial Ecology Unit of Ghent University as a lab technician. He is helping with the research of the unit in the lab as well as in the field. He is a biodiversity expert with extensive experience in working with birds and all kinds of arthropods like butterflies & moths, flower flies & other pollinating insects and spiders. As a voluntary validator of butterfly sightings on Flanders’ biggest biodiversity citizen science website waarnemingen.be he also has a good experience in translating science to the less experienced.