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uni-muenster.deCurriculum vitae
| 1943 | Born in Arnhem, The Netherlands |
| 1961-1968 | Study Biology at Utrecht University (vegetation science, plant systematics and physiology) |
| 1968-1987 | Staff member/docent at the institute of Plant Systematics, later Plant Ecology |
| 1980 | PhD thesis on the vegetation of Southeast Greenland (Promotor Prof. Dr. J. J. Barkman) |
| 1987 | Appointment as ordinary professor in (Geo)Botany at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster, Germany |
| 2008 | Retired, guest scientist in the Faculty of Biology |
Research
All fields of geobotany, a.o. analysis, classification and mapping of the vegetation of the North (Arctic and Boreal), especially Greenland; vegetation and vegetation history of the Vosges (France); vegetation structure and dynamics; biodiversity; life strategies; lichenology and bryology pertaining to vegetation.
Publications
see here
Scientific field trips and expeditions
Ellesmere Island 1992 Ammassalik, southeast Greenland 1995 Werchojansk Mountains 2006 Vosges 2005The North
Gras-, Shrub- and Woodlands
Europe
The North
1966, 1968, 1969, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008: South Greenland, Southeast Greenland, West and Northwest Greenland, Eastern North Greenland
1992, 1999, 2005: Arctic Canada (North West Territories, Nunavut)
1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2006: Island, Aleutian Islands, Interior of Alaska, North Canada, East Siberia
Desert regions
1984 Egypt and Sinai
1992 Southwest USA
1998, 1999: Southern Russia; Kasachstan
Gras-, Shrub- and Woodlands
1990 Midwest USA, Iowa, Missouri
1997, 1999 South Africa (Capensis-Karoo); Marroc, Canary Islands
1998, 1999, 2001 Volga delta; Caspian Region; Moscow Region; Middle and Southern Ural, West Siberia
Europe
1966-2009
Commitments
- Member of the editorial boards of the journals Phytocoenologia, Acta Phytogeographica Suecica, Tuexenia and Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft
- Member of the Permanent Flora Group of Arctic Conservation Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
- Member of the CAT-B group (IASC)
- Reviewer for international journals, universities and research foundations (a.o. DFG)
- Member of IUCN SSC Arctic Plant Specialist Group 2005-2008
Memberships in scientific organisations
- Int. Association of Vegetation Science
- Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Polarforschung
- Akademie für Ökologische Landesforschung e.V
- Floristisch-soziologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft
- Plantensociologische Kring, Nederland
- Bryologische-Lichenologische Werkgroep van de KNNV
- Bryologisch-lichenologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteleuropa
Membership universitary commissions in Münster
- Chairman of the "Diplom-Prüfungsausschuss" Biology
Survey of MSc and PhD theses
List of MSc theses (Diplom- and Staatsexamensarbeiten) and PhD theses (Doktorarbeiten)
Teaching
- Lecturing: Phytocoenology, vegetation of Northwest Germany
- Courses: Geobotany, lichenology, bryology
- Geobotanical excursions: Vosges, Hautes Fagnes, Northwest Germany, the Netherlands.
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