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Michal Mikšík

Country: Czech Republic. An amateur mycologist who is mainly engaged in photographing mushrooms, publishing popular scientific publications about mushrooms. His specialty is European Boletes. He is co-author (with Josef Šutara and Václav Janda) of the monograph "Hřibovité houby- 2009", author of the monograph "Hřibovité houby Evropy - 2017" and "Hřiby - kapesní atlas - 2019". Together with other authors, he introduced a new species of mushroom, Rubroboletus demonensis, from Europe. Member of Czech Scientific Society for Mycology.

Matteo Gelardi

Country: Italy. Matteo Gelardi is a fungal taxonomist and systematic mycologist enrolled in the Italian National Register for Professional Mycologists (n° 2267) and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Associazione Micologica Ecologica Romana APS (AMER APS). He is a specialist of boletoid mushrooms (boletes) and related taxa (order Boletales, Basidiomycota) worldwide, with a particular emphasis on representative families such as Boletaceae, Paxillaceae, Suillaceae and Gomphidiaceae. His experience resulted from an extensive field research in different natural habitats of three different continents, including Europe (Italy, UK, France), Asia (China) and Australia. In addition, he is currently investigating bolete diversity of the Dominican Republic (Caribbean, Central America). Field and lab research carried out over the past 20 years led him to the discovery, identification and naming of several new fungal genera and species, mostly in the order Boletales. As a lecturer he gave several talks on mycological topics to national (Italy) and international (China) symposia and as a teacher he performed a relevant number of basic and advanced courses on mycology for both amateur mushroom-pickers and professional mycologists involved in the supervision and processing of wild mushrooms for trade. Matteo currently boasts roughly 55 scientific publications in both local/regional and prestigious international peer-reviewed scientific Journals and his publishing track record also includes two single-authored book chapters edited by Springer and Elsevier, respectively.