Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem

Scientific staff

Beat Ernst Leuenberger

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.


Functions:

  • 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.

Research interests:

  • 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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