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Naufal Urfi Dhiya’ulhaq

Program Director

Naufal is a spider taxonomist and natural history enthusiast who dreams of documenting all the species in Indonesia, especially spiders. He is active on the citizen science platform iNaturalist, where he contributes to open-access biodiversity data by making and identifying biodiversity observations. Naufal finished his B.Sc. degree in 2021 at the Faculty of Biology, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for which he explored the spider diversity of Paliyan Wildlife Sanctuary for his thesis. Following his thesis completion, Naufal worked as a freelance biodiversity surveyor and research assistant for a couple of months. In 2022, he joined the CRC EFForTS project as a spider specialist in the subproject Z02, which is assigned to the monitoring of aboveground biodiversity along the land-use change gradient studied in Jambi, Sumatra. 

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Education

2017-2021

Gadjah Mada University

Faculty of Biology
Bachelor Degree
Major: Biology

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