I am an Associate Professor and the curator of the herbarium for vascular plants. “Vascular plants” means all plants except mosses.
More than one in five of all the plant species in the world are threatened with extinction. Climate change and reduced space make it tougher to survive in nature, and it is urgent that we describe and understand the natural diversity on Earth.
I study how new species of plants come into being, the kinship between species,
and I describe new species for science. I study plants from the tropics to the Arctic. In order to find answers to my research questions, I use both DNA analyses and the analysis of the plant’s construction and form.
