"I retired at the end of October 2013, after 46 years of service at the ARC Plant Protection Research Institute. I started in 1967 as a technical assistant and worked my way up through all the post levels to retire as a specialist scientist. However, I was reappointed at ARC-PPRI on a 2-year contract as a "retired mentor of the ARC." I have also been reappointed as extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria for the next three years. I will continue to be involved in the South African National Survey of Arachnida, the running of the online Virtual Museum and the African Arachnida Database, and hope to continue with research on the crab spiders. I have authored more than 250 publications on spiders, which include nine handbooks and 125 scientific publications, and co-supervised 22 students from seven universities."
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