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. Dissertation on the taxonomy of Thalictrum subsect. Thalictrum at the BGBM 1995-2001. Scientist at the BGBM 1995-1996. Since 1988 expert in landscape planning and nature conservation (Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey) in salaried position or freelancing.

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] 

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