Meet the editor

Heimo Mikkola obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Kuopio (now Eastern Finland University), where he also served as an adjunct professor in Applied Zoology. From 1974 to 2007, he worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, first in Colombia and then in Africa, where he served as the organization's resident representative. After retiring from the FAO in Uruguay, Dr. Mikkola has worked as

a part-time professor at three Kazakh universities and one Kyrgyz university. His work has taken him to 137 countries, and he has written almost 700 reports and scientific papers and books, mainly on owls and other birds, fish, insects, and food. He has studied bats for many years on almost all continents as they often share nighttime activity and biotopes with owls. This is the second book on bats he has edited for IntechOpen.
