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Contact:
Dr Norbert KILIAN,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8,
D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50129, Fax: (+4930) 841729-29, E-mail: n.kilian@bgbm.org
Functions:
- Head of the section 'Library and Scientific Publications'
- Editor of "Willdenowia";
coordinator for "Englera"
- Scientific supervisor of the library
- Curator of archives & icon collections
- Curator for phanerogams
Curriculum:
Born 1957; studies of biology, psychology and history in Heidelberg and Berlin; diploma in
biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 1988; scientist
at the BGBM Berlin-Dahlem since 1993; doctorate, Freie Universität Berlin, 1996.
Memberships in scientific societies:
Current
research projects:
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Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of the Compositae
* Studies in the Compositae of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
* Molecular systematics of the genus Launaea (Cichorieae, Sonchinae)
* Molecular and morphological systematics
of Cichorieae subtribe Lactucinae
* Phylogeny of the Cichorieae inferred from molecular markers with special emphasis on
subtribal delimitation [with Birgit
Gemeinholzer]
* The Cichorieae of China (Coordinating co-authorships of the Cichorieae
for 'Flora of
China')
* Cichorieae (excl. Hieracium and Taraxacum) for 'Flora
von Istrien'
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EDIT (European
Distributed Institute of Taxonomy), Workpackage
6: The tribe Cichorieae
(Compositae) as exemplar taxon for a distributed web revision [coordinator,
with Birgit
Gemeinholzer, Ralf
Hand & Eckhard
von Raab-Straube], see International
Cichorieae Network
- Phytodiversity and phytogeography of the southern Arabian Peninsula and
Socotra
* Phytodiversity and vegetation of representative palaeo-African refugia in the
southern
coastal mountains of the Yemeni mainland and on Socotra (a
project of the BIOTA-East
Yemen Project Group "Biodiversity and ecology of palaeo-African refugia in S
Arabia
and on Socotra" sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research
in 2001-2004)
* Vascular plant flora and phytogeography of the southern governorates of Yemen,
(Al-Mahra, Hadhramout, Shabwa, Abyan, Lahj, Aden)
Co-supervision of diploma and doctoral theses:
selected publications
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