Scientific staff
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Beat Ernst Leuenberger
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Contact:
Dr. Beat Ernst LEUENBERGER,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin,
Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50117, Fax: (+4930) 841 729 17, E-mail: b.leuenberger@bgbm.org.
- Senior Curator, Head of Department of subtropical and tropical living collections (in glasshouses).
- Curator of phanerogam families (chiefly tropical-subtropical dicots) in herbarium and gardens.
Curriculum:
Born 1946 in Burgdorf, Switzerland. Schools in Burgdorf. 1966-1975: Studies at the
University of Bern, Switzerland, and Heidelberg, Germany. 1972 diploma (Lic. phil. nat.)
University of Bern, Switzerland. 1975 Dr. rer. nat., University of Heidelberg. 1975-1976:
Assistant at the Systematic-geobotanical Institute of the University of Bern. 1976 to
present: Curator at Botanical Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem, 1976-1978
Curator in herbarium section. 1979 to present: Senior Curator in living collections
section.
- Long term interest in Cactaceae, monographic studies, revisions, taxonomic history (Pereskia, Maihuenia, Denmoza, Opuntia ser. Armatae, south American Harrisia and other mainly South American genera).
- Flora of the Guianas (Cactaceae, Zygophyllaceae).
- Flora of Argentina, contributor to Cactaceae.
- Flora of Chile, contributor to Cactaceae.
- Neotropical flora and vegetation, succulents in general.
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