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Understanding plant diversity across time, space, and evolutionary lineages.

I am an integrative botanist studying the diversity, evolution, and persistence of plants across time and space. My research combines herbarium and living collections, field observations, genomics, and emerging analytical tools to understand the origins, distribution, and loss of plant diversity. By bridging taxonomy, biogeography, conservation, and global change biology, I develop new ways to document, identify, and monitor biodiversity in a rapidly changing world.

Research Themes

Plant Diversity Across Time and Space

Using herbarium and living collections to understand the origins, persistence, and loss of plant diversity across ecological and evolutionary timescales.

Evolutionary History and Biogeography

Investigating how evolutionary relationships, geographic distributions, and historical processes shape plant diversity and resilience.

Plant Responses to Global Change

Understanding how phenology, traits, growth, and genomic variation influence plant responses to climate change and environmental stress.

Students and postdocs interested in plant evolution, global change biology, conservation, or natural history collections are very welcome to get in touch.

CV

• 2024-present: Assistant professor (tenure-track) & curator, Science & Society Section, Natural History Museum of Denmark
• 2021-2023: Science & Society Section - Citizen Science and Exhibition Content Scientist, Natural History Museum of Denmark
• 2017-2021: Postdoc in Botany, Botany & Citizen Science Sections, Natural History Museum of Denmark. 
• 2014-2017: MedPlant Marie Curie PhD Fellow, Natural History Museum of Denmark. Travel routes of a worldwide weed, Plantago major, and biogeographic origins of island endemics in the genus Plantago.
• 2006-2014: Herbarium Curator and Field Botanist, Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, Canada. 
• 2001-2006: Botanist/Landscape Ecologist, Toronto Region Conservation Authority, Ontario, Canada.
• 2001: Master’s degree in forest conservation, University of Toronto.
• 1999: Bachelor’s degree in botanical science, McGill University. 

Primary fields of research

Plant diversity and biodiversity change; species persistence and loss; historical ecology; plant biogeography; evolutionary history and phylogeography; integrative taxonomy; conservation biology; global change; edge-of-range and relict populations; edaphic specialist plants; botanical collections research.

Teaching

Citizen Science (PhD course / MSc course), Plant-Animal Interactions (BSc), Conservation (BSc), Conservation Biology (MSc), Tropical Botany. Visit our Museum webpage for details.