title: Timo Maran
text: # Timo Maran
  
  Timo Maran (born 13 April 1975) is an Estonian biosemiotician and poet.
  
  He is the head Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu.
  
  Membership in organizations:
  
  * Estonian Naturalists' Society (vice-president 2007–2010)
  * Estonian Semiotics Association (vice-chairman 2006–2008, 2010–2012)
  * Estonian Literary Society
  * Estonian Writers' Union
  * European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (member of advisory board since 2010)
  * International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (member of the executive board 2010–2012, vice-president since 2012)
  * Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (member of the board 2011-...)
  
  ## Works
  
  * 2001 poetry collection "Põhjavesi" (Erakkond)
  * 2007 poetry collection "Metsa pööramine" (Erakkond)
  * 2007 poetry collection "Poeetiline punane raamat / Poetics of Endangered Species" (Ukraina Kultuurikeskus, Ajakirjade Kirjastus)
  * 2015 poetry collection "Las ma ümisen" (Allikaäärne)
  * 2015 children stories "Kodukakk, päevakoer ja teised" (Päike ja Pilv)
  * 2017 monograph "Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry" (Springer)
  * 2019 poetry collection "Metsloomatruudus" (Elusamus)
  * 2020 monograph "Ecosemiotics. The Study of Signs in Changing Ecologies" (Cambridge University Press)
  * 2023 collection of selected poems "Ainult puudutused on" (Verb)
  