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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 Research
and Biodiversity Informatics.
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, 2012 Head, Dept. of Research and Biodiversity Informatics.
Committee membership:
- German GBIF [Global Biodiversity
Information Facility] node coordinator's group
(Speaker, August 2001, last renewed 2011)
- GBIF Governing Board (German delegate [DFG], March 2001)
- Biodiversity Information Standards - TDWG [IUBS Commission for Taxonomic
Databases],
Task group for the ABCD Standard (Chair, Oct. 1995)
- CETAF [Consortium of European Taxonomic
Facilities] (BioCASE representative)
- CETAF ISTC (Information Science and Technology Commission (Chair, 2011)
- SMEBD (Society for the management of European biodiversity data) Council
(Member, Sept. 2004)
- Swedish LifeWatch Scientific Advisory Group (Member, 2011)
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
- AnnoSys (DFG, project lead)
- BioCASE (initiative; co-ordinator)
- Dendroflora of El Salvador (various; project lead)
- EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy (initiative; co-ordinator)
- EU-BON (EU; under negotiation, participant)
- Euro+Med PlantBase (initiative; co-coordinator)
- GBIF Germany over-all coordination and Botany & Algae (BMBF; lead)
- Global Plant Initiative (Mellon Foundation; BGBM project lead)
- I4Life (EU; WP10 co-lead)
- OpenUp! (EU; project coordinator)
- Pro-iBiosphere (EU; under negotiation; WP3 co-lead)
- ReBIND (DFG; project co-lead)
- Red Lists 2020 - Germany (BfN; project lead)
- SYNTHESYS 2 (EU; Networking Activity 2, lead)
- ViBRANT (EU; WP2 & 4 participant)
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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