Scientific Staff

Thomas Raus

Contact:
Dr. Thomas RAUS,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50128, Fax (+4930) 838-50186, Email: t.raus@bgbm.org.

Functions:

Senior curator for phanerogams.
Head, Department of outdoor living collections.

Curriculum:
Born 1949 in Soest, Germany. University studies in Münster and Göttingen. 1975-1978: Scientific Assistant, Botanical Institute, University of Münster/Germany. PhD ibidem (1977). 1978-1980: Scientific Assistant, Institute of Plant Systematics & Morphology, University of Kassel/Germany. 1980-1983: Curator, 1983 to present: Senior Curator, Botanical Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Committee memberships:

OPTIMA Commission for Floristic Investigation, member (since 1989).
Gemeinsamer Museumsbeirat der Staatlichen Museen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe und Stuttgart, Mitglied (since 2002).

Memberships in scientific societies:

Akademie für Biologisch-Ökologische Landeserforschung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Botanischer Verein von Berlin und Brandenburg.
Floristisch-soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft.
Hellenic Botanical Society, Foreign Member.
Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature.
International Association for Plant Taxonomy.
International Association for Vegetation Science.
Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area.
Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft für Vegetationskunde.
Westfälischer Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein.

Research interests and projects:

Taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of vascular plants in the Mediterranean, in particular Cisteae (Cistaceae), Verbasceae, Rhinantheae (Scrophulariaceae).
Plant biodiversity of Greece and the Aegean. Current: regional floras/annotated checklists of the Santorini island group and Eastern Thessaly; miscellaneous additions to the flora of Greece.
Med-Checklist: a critical inventory of vascular plants of the circum-mediterranean countries (edited by Prof. W. Greuter, Berlin, et al.). Evaluation and incorporation of supplementary literature for vol. 2 in prep.; co-editing the series Med-Checklist notulae (with Prof. W. Greuter, Berlin).
Flora Hellenica (based at botanical institutions in Patras/Greece [UPA], Copenhagen/Denmark [C], Lund/Sweden [LD] and Berlin-Dahlem [B]). Accounts in preparation of: Cistaceae (Cistus, Fumana, Halimium, Helianthemum, Tuberaria); Menyanthaceae (Menyanthes, Nymphoides); Boraginaceae p.pte. (Amsinckia, Asperugo, Borago, Cerinthe, Lappula, Rochelia); Labiatae p.pte. (Galeopsis, Glechoma, Leonurus, Phlomis, Prunella); Solanaceae p.pte. (Atropa, Hyoscyamus, Physalis); Scrophulariaceae p.pte. (Lindernia, Bacopa, Limosella, Mimulus, Digitalis, Sibthorpia, Melampyrum, Tozzia, Parentucellia, Bellardia, Pedicularis, Rhynchocorys, Lesquereuxia, Lathraea); Adoxaceae (Adoxa).
The lichen flora of selected Aegean islands (Greece) and their phytogeographical and historical significance, in collaboration with Dr. H. Sipman; inventories of Ikaria, Kalimnos, Kos, Nisiros, Telendos, Paros & Antiparos, SE Euboia and the Santorini island group, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft.

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