Scientific staff
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Dr. Eckhard von Raab-Straube
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Contact
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
Functions
- Euro+Med PlantBase Secretariat: Project coordinator and co-editor
- Data and Workflow Curator of the Euro-Mediterranean focal area of research
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).
- Molecular and morphological systematics of the genus Saussurea and related genera Himalaiella, Frolovia and Lipschitziella
- Floristics and vegetation of Hengduan Mountains, SW China
- Biodiversity informatics and floristics of the Euro-Mediterranean region
- Cybertaxonomy
- Floristics and pharmaceutical plants of Altai Mountains, S Siberia
- Taxonomy and biogeography of Compositae in high mountains of Central
and Eastern Asia
Current involvement in collaborative projects
- Co-author of the Flora of China for the genus Saussurea (Compositae)
- PESI (A Pan-European directories Species Infrastructure): Member of the Steering Committee; Member of the Advisory Group for Focal Points
- EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy) Workpackage 6: Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy: The Cichorieae Exemplar Group; Co-Editor of the International Cichorieae Portal (ICN)
- PESI Steering Committee and Advisory Group for Focal Points
- Bulletin of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, new series (Editorial Board)
Memberships in scientific societies
- International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
- Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS)
- Botanischer Verein für Berlin und Brandenburg
