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Short CV

1964 born in Salzburg

1983 Matriculation at the University of Vienna, enrolment for the study of pharmacy

1985 Change area of study to Biology / Botany

1987 Additional enrolment for the study of Zoology

1988 Commence thesis [theme: “Die Palmen des Siragebirges und angrenzenden Tieflandes im östlichen Peru“ (The palmes of the Sira mountains and close-by lowlands at Eastern Peru)]

1993 -1995 PhD [theme: „Taxonomy and Phytogeography of the Neotropical taxa of the genus Annona (Annonaceae)"]

2000 - now, University of Vienna, Institute of Botany, digitalisation of botanical collection in the herbarium

2005 - now, Natural History Museum Vienna, Department of Botany, Coordinator of the "Global Plants Initiative" project

current projects

Facealps - Flora and vegetation distribution in the area of ​​the catchment area of ​​the Mühlbach in Hallstatt.

Global Plants Initiative  - Record of type documents from the herbaria of the Natural History Museum Vienna (W) and the Institute of Botany of the University of Vienna (WU).

DiSSCo - National Task Force (in preparation).

Completed projects

4D4Life - Global Species Datasets (GSD) for the Annonaceae and Ebenaceae Families as a Contribution to the Catalog of Life http://www.catalogueoflife.org/

. general info  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/91133/factsheet/en

. May 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011

BHL-Europe - European contribution to the Digital Biodiversity Library - Biodiversity Heritage Library

. May 2009 - December 31, 2011

CHERLA - promoting sustainable cherimoya ( Annona cherimola Mill.); Production systems in Latin America through characterization, conservation and use of local genetic diversity

. Coordination - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain / Iñaki Hormaza

. Workpage 3 - Localization of Hotspots of Diversity / University of Vienna / Institute of Botany / Heimo Rainer.

. funded by INCO, instrument of the European Commission, 6th Framework Program

. January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2008

Species 2000 Europe - Creation of a GSD (Global Species Dataset) of the Annonaceae family as a contribution to a global list of biological organism groups - www.catalogueoflife.org/search.php

. Coordination - Utrecht University, Department of Plant Evolution and Systematics / Lars Chatrou

. local coordination - University of Vienna, Institute of Botany / Heimo Rainer

. funded by Species2000 Europe, 6th EU Framework Program

. March 3, 2004 - December 31, 2005

DIGIBOTA - Project for the digitization of botanical document collections in Austria with the main focus on the digitization of botanical collections in particular of the type documents with integrated digital image acquisition

. Coordination - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Interdisciplinary Studies / Heimo Rainer

. funded by the participating institutions and the GBIF International DIGIT program

. August 30, 2004 - August 30, 2005

GBIF Austria Pilot project - networking of selected biological databases at Austrian institutions as data providers for GBIF International

. Coordination - Federal Environment Agency / Martin Götzl

. financed by the BMBWK

. January 2004 - December 2005

GBIF feasibility study on the participation of Austria in the International GBIF Network - Survey of botanical specimen collections available in Austria

. Coordination - Federal Environment Agency / Dr. med. Martin Gotzl

. financed by the BMBWK

. June 2002 - 2003

. Publications: "The Austrian collections and databases on species diversity"

International Cooperations

Annonaceae Project

Topic - central research focus at the University of Utrecht with the participation of v.a. the below mentioned institutions
Coordination - Utrecht University under open participation v.a. the institutions and persons mentioned below
involved institutions:
National Herbarium Nederland
- Utrecht branch (Paul Maas, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Mike Pirie, Jifke Koek-Noorman, Lubbert Westra; thematic focus: general overview, phylogeny of the whole family, monographic processing of the genera Cremastosperma, Duguetia, Fusaea, Rollinia, Unonopsis)
- Leiden branch (Paul Kessler, Johan Mols; thematic focus: Annonaceae, palynology; monographic performances of the Asian genera Miliusa, Orophea, Phaeanthus)
- Wageningen branch (Marc Sosef, James Richardson; thematic priorities: Annonaceae Index; Biogeography; monographic processing of the genera Isolona, Monodora)
Universität Halle, Institute of Systematic Botany/ Halle/Saale, Germany (Martin Röser, Bernhard von Hagen; thematic focus: phylogeny of the genus Annona)
Missouri Botanical Garden / St. Louis, MO, USA (George Schatz; thematic focus: Annonaceae Index, Flora Mesoamericana, Flora of Madagascar; monographic works of the genera Sapranthus, Stenanona, Tridimeris)
Musée Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle / Paris, France (Annick LeThomas, Thierry Deroin; thematic focus: palynology, annonaceae index)
Universität Ulm, Institute of Systematic Botany / Ulm, Germany (Gerhard Gottsberger; thematic focus: Pollination Biology)
University of California / Davis, CA, USA (Jim Doyle; thematic priorities: family classification, palynology, paleobotany)
University of Hong kong, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity / Hong Kong, China (Richard Saunders, Yvonne Su; thematic focus: Asian Annonaceae, Annonaceae Index, Palynology monographic editions of the genera Goniothalamus, Pseuduvaria)
Ohio Wesleyan University / Delaware, OH, USA (David Johnson, Nancy Murray;thematic priorities: Annonaceae Index; monographic works of the genera Cymbopetalum, Porcelia, Trigynaea, Xylopia)

Floristic arrangements of the genus Annona in the context of international floristic projects

Flora Mesoamericana
involved institutions:
British Museum / London, GB (Sandra Knapp, thematic focus: coordination of the overall project)
Missouri Botanical Garden / St. Louis, MO, USA (Peter Raven, George Schatz, thematic focus: coordination of the overall project, Annonaceae)
Herbário Nacional de México, Universidad Autónoma de México / Ciudad de México, México (Mario Sousa Sánchez, thematic priorities: coordination of the overall project, field work)

Flora of the Venezuelan Guyanas
involved institutions:
Missouri Botanical Garden / St. Louis, MO, USA (Peter Raven, Kay Yatskievych, thematic focus: coordinating the overall project)
University of Wisconsin / Madison, WI, USA (Paul Berry, thematic focus: coordinating the overall project)

Flora of the Guianas
involved institutions:
Utrecht University / Utrecht, the Netherlands (Marion Jansen-Jacobs, Hans ter Steege, Gea Zijlstra, thematic focus: coordination of the overall project)
Smithsonian Institution / Washington DC, USA (Vicki Funk, Carol Kelloff, Tom Hollowell, Larry Skog; thematic focus: overall project coordination; biological diversity of the Guiana Shield; plant checklist)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, Center de Cayenne / Cayenne, French Guiana (Jean-Jacques de Granville, Marie-Françoise Prévost, thematic priorities: coordination of the overall project, field work)
New York Botanical Garden / New York, USA (Scott Mori, Wayt Thomas, thematic focus: coordination of the overall project)

Floristic cultivation of the family Annonaceae

Flora de Cuba

involved institutions:
Free University of Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem / Berlin, Germany (Werner Greuter, Walter Berendsohn, thematic focus: coordination of the overall project)
University of Jena, Institute of Botany / Jena, Germany (Hermann Manitz, thematic focus: overall view)
Instituto Nacional de Sistematica / Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba (Maira Fernandez, thematic focus: coordination of the overall project)
National Botanical Garden / Cidudad de La Habana, Cuba (Angela Leiva, Rosa Rankin, Jorge Gutierrez, thematic priorities: coordination of the overall project;
Universidad Pinar del Río, Cuba (Armando Urquiola, thematic focus: field work)

Flora of China
involved institutions:
Institute of Botany Academia Sinica / Beijing, China (Pingtao Li; thematic focus: Editing the family for the Flora Reipublicae Sinicae, first author of the treatment for the Flora of China)
University of Hong Kong, Botany Institute of Botany / Hong Kong, China (Richard Saunders; thematic focus: individual species processing for the Flora of China; single genus revisions (e.g., pseuduvaria))
Missouri Botanical Garden / St. Louis, MO, USA (George Schatz, main topics: Annonaceae Index, Flora Mesoamericana, Flora of Madagascar, monographic works of the genera Sapranthus, Stenanona, Tridimeris)