Academic history

June 2019 - present:

University Museum of Bergen, Norway

Associate Professor in Botany URL

January 2018 – June 2019:

Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany

DFG Heisenberg Fellow URL

September 2013 - December 2017:

International Association for Plant Taxonomy

Managing Editor, TAXON URL

January 2013 – August 2017:

Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

October 2008 – present:

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Postdoctoral research fellow, project ‘Molecular systematics of Erica (Ericaceae)’ with Dirk U. Bellstedt, in collaboration with E.G.H. Oliver

July 2005 – July 2008:

Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Postdoctoral research fellow, project ‘Diversification of Danthonioideae (Poaceae): integrating dispersal and radiation’ with H. Peter Linder

November 2000 – June 2005:

Utrecht University/National Herbarium of the Netherlands

Ph.D. ‘Molecular phylogenetic, biogeographic, and taxonomic studies in Neotropical Annonaceae’. Promoter Paul J. M. Maas, co-promoter Lars W. Chatrou

October 1999 – September 2000:

University of Edinburgh/Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, U.K.

M.Sc. 'The Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants'. Dissertation project ‘Biogeography and Systematics of Centrolobium (Fabaceae)’; supervised by R. Toby Pennington and Bente B. Klitgaard

September 1995 - June 1998:

University College London, U.K.

B.Sc. (hons.) Biology. Final year dissertation project: Hertfordshire Pond Survey 1997.