Urmas Tartes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Urmas Tartes

Estonian biologist and photographer

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1963

Place of Birth: Tartu, Livonia Governorate, Sweden

Profession: photographer, entomologist

Nationality: Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Urmas Tartes (born September 19, 1963) is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer. He ended his studies in Nõo Secondary school in 1982 with a gold medal and graduated from University of Tartu in 1989 with cum laude as biologist-zoologist.
He became Doctor of Philosophy in 1995 with a thesis "Respiration Rhythms in Insects".Since 1989 he worked in Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany.
Between 1996 and 2004 he served as the director of the institute.
In 2005–2010 he was a professor in Estonian University of Life Sciences.
From then on, he continued as a freelance nature photographer and writer.