Dr. Eckhard von Raab-Straube
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Dr. Eckhard von RAAB-STRAUBE
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Königin-Luise-Strasse
6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Phone: (+4930) 838-50445, Fax (+4930) 838-50186,
Email: e.raab-straube@bgbm.org
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Curriculum
Studies in Biology at the Free University of Berlin, diploma in 1995. Work on
a freelance basis in the field of environmental planning, consulting and
vegetation mapping 1994-1997. Contracted by the International Association for
Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) for implementation and management of the international
database project "Registration of Plant Names" 1997-1999. Study of
Chinese language at the Free University of Berlin 1999-2001. Principal
investigator of a Sino-German plant collecting expedition to the Hengduan
Mountains August-October 2000 (granted by the National Geographic Society,
Washington D.C. and by the DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn).
Russian-German botanical-pharmaceutical expedition to Altai Mountains, S
Siberia, July-August 2002. Employed at the BGBM as a scientific assistant
for the projects "Med-Checklist - Compositae" from December 2004 to June 2008;
for the EU-funded projects EDIT (since January 2007) and PESI (since June 2008).
Research stay at Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge (MA) (Flora of China
project, January 2009). 2012 PhD at the BGBM (Freie Universität Berlin); thesis: Taxonomic revision of Saussurea subgenus Amphilaena (Stschegl.) Lipsch. (Compositae, Cardueae).
Current involvement in collaborative projects
Memberships in scientific societies