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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Walter G. BERENDSOHN,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin,
Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50143, Fax (+4930) 841729-43, Email: w.berendsohn [at]
bgbm.org.
Functions:
Director and Professor
Head, Department of Biodiversity Informatics and
Laboratories.
Curriculum:
Studies of Biology at the University of Hamburg, University of the West Indies (Mona) and
the Free University of Berlin, in 1985 diploma in Biology (thesis on "Physiological,
Morphological and Yield Characteristics of the Winged Bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus).
1983 to 1986 consultant, 1987 to 1990 research director of the Jardín Botánico La Laguna
in El Salvador, C.A. 1990 doctorate from the FU Berlin ("The arboreal
vegetation of the Laderas de La Laguna, a neotropical forest fragment in El Salvador - A
computer aided study"). 1990 Curator; 1991 Senior Curator at the Botanical Garden and
Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Head, Electronic Data Processing and
Documentation; 1998
Head, Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories, 2000 Director and
Professor.
Committee membership:
- German GBIF [Global Biodiversity
Information Facility] node coordinator's group
(Speaker, August 2001)
- GBIF Governing Board (German delegate, March 2001)
Science Subcommittee on Digitisation
of Natural History Collection Data (Chair, Oct. 2005, renewed Sept. 2007)
- Biodiversity Information Standards - TDWG [IUBS Commission for Taxonomic
Databases], (Chair, Jan. 2005 to Dec. 2007)
Task group for the ABCD Standard (Chair, Oct. 1995)
- DNFS [Direktorenkonferenz der Naturhistorischen Forschungssammlungen
Deutschlands] (deputy member)
- CETAF [Consortium of European Taxonomic
Facilities] (deputy member)
- IOPI Species Plantarum Project Steering Committee
(member).
- SMEBD (Society for the management of European biodiversity data) Council
(Member, Sept. 2004)
Memberships in scientific societies:
- International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie (DGTÖ)
- Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS)
Current involvement in collaborative projects
- GBIF Germany - node coordination project (lead)
- GBIF Germany Botanical Node (lead)
- BioCASE (co-ordinator)
- MoReTax 2 (lead)
- Dendroflora of El Salvador (lead)
- SYNTHESYS (Networking Activity D, lead)
- EDIT (WP5 lead)
- Life Watch (WP5 lead)
- PESI (WP5 lead)
Research interests:
- Flora and vegetation of El Salvador, Central America (particularly
dendroflora)
- Biodiversity Informatics, particularly information modelling, networking,
taxon concepts, and biological collections
List of publications
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