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

Scientific staff

Norbert Kilian

Contact:

Dr Norbert KILIAN,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50129, Fax: (+4930) 841729-29, E-mail: n.kilian@bgbm.org

 

Functions:

  • Head of the section 'Library and Scientific Publications'
  • Editor of "Willdenowia"; coordinator for "Englera"; head of BGBM Press
  • Scientific supervisor of the library
  • Curator of archives & icon collections
  • Coordinator of the BGBM focal area of research Asterales

 

Curriculum:

Born 1957; studies of biology, psychology and history in Heidelberg and Berlin; diploma in biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 1988; scientist at the BGBM Berlin-Dahlem since 1993; doctorate, Freie Universität Berlin, 1996.

 

Memberships in scientific societies and committees:

  • International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
  • Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS)
  • Elected member (since 2011) of the Nomenclatural Committee for Vascular Plants (established under the auspices of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, IAPT)

 

Current research projects:

  • Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of the Compositae
    * Studies in the Compositae of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
    * Molecular systematics of the genus Launaea (Cichorieae, Sonchinae)
    * Molecular and morphological systematics of Cichorieae subtribe Lactucinae
    *
    Phylogeny of the Cichorieae inferred from molecular markers with special emphasis on
       subtribal delimitation

  • E-Taxonomy: The Cichorieae Portal of the International Cichorieae Network () as an application of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy

 

selected publications

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