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Students

Born in South Africa, educated at the University of Cape Town, graduated as Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis on the taxonomy of the orchid subtribe Disinae, in 1982, supervised by Prof. E.A. Schelpe.

Employment

1980. Temporary Lecturer in Plant Taxonomy in the Department of Botany, University of Cape Town.

1981 - 1986. Agricultural Researcher, Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture.

1982 - 1985. Posted as South African Liaison Officer to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

1987 - Lecturer in the Botany Department of the University of Cape Town, with the posting of Assistant Curator of the Bolus Herbarium. 1990 - Promoted to Senior Lecturer.

1993 - Promoted to Associate Professor.

1997 - Ad Hominem promotion to Professor.

2001 - Professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich, and as Director of the Institute of Systematic Botany and the Botanic Garden of Zurich.

2011 – Resigned as Director, stay as Professor.

2019 – Retired

Awards and Honours

Harold Compton Prize for the most meritorious paper on the South African flora published in 1981 (1982).

R.A. Dyer Prize for the most meritorious paper published by a Botanical Research Institute officer under 40 years of age in 1983 (1984).

Cuatracases Medal for contributions to tropical botany by the Botany Department of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC (2014)

1. Taxonomy of the Restionoideae (African Restionaceae)

2. Taxonomy of Phylica (Rhamnaceae), in collaboration with Pater Damaskinos