Scientific staff

Ralf Hand Contact Curriculum Committee memberships Membership in scientific societies Research interests Selected publications

Contact:
Dr. Ralf HAND,
Botanischer Garten & Botanisches Museum, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone (+4930) 838-50445, Fax (+4930) 841729-29, E-Mail r.hand@bgbm.org.

Curriculum:

Born 1964 in Trier (Germany). Study of biology at the University of Bonn 1987-1993, diploma thesis on the chorology of Hieracium in the Eifel mountains. Since 1988 expert in landscape planning and nature conservation (Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey) in salaried position or freelancing. Dissertation on the taxonomy of Thalictrum subsect. Thalictrum at the BGBM 1995-2001. Scientist at the BGBM 1995-1996, since 2006 working for the EU-funded EDIT project.

Committee memberships

• Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Flora Deutschlands, vice-president (www.flora-deutschlands.de)

Membership in scientific societies:

• Bayerische Botanische Gesellschaft
• Botanical Society of the British Isles
• Botanische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Südwestdeutschland
• Botanische Vereinigung für Naturschutz in Hessen
• Botanischer Verein von Berlin und Brandenburg
• International Association for Plant Taxonomy
• Naturhistorischer Verein der Rheinlande und Westfalens
• Pollichia
• Verein zur Erforschung der Flora Österreichs

Research interests:

• taxonomy of Thalictrum.
• taxonomical and floristic research in Cyprus and Germany.
• EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy), Workpackage 6: The tribe Cichorieae (Compositae) as exemplar taxon for a distributed web revision [with Birgit Gemeinholzer, Norbert Kilian & Eckhard von Raab-Straube], see International Cichorieae Network (ICN).

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