Sebsebe Demissew
Sebsebe Demissew | |
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018) | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany Systematics |
Institutions | Addis Ababa University |
Thesis | The genus Maytenus (Celastraceae) in NE tropical Africa and tropical Arabia (1985) |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Sebsebe |
Sebsebe Demissew (born June 14, 1953)
Education
Demissew was educated at
Career and research
Demissew served as the Leader of the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea between 1996 until its completion in 2009 in collaboration with Inga Hedberg in which 6000 species with 10% endemic species are documented; the project involved 91 scientists from 17 countries. It is one of the few completed Floras in Africa.[4]
Demissew has participated in a number of successful collaborative research projects with universities in Europe and Africa including
Demissew has authored and co-authored books and articles in peer reviewed journals[5] on the vegetation and plants of Ethiopia and Africa.[4][9] He is a member of national and international professional organizations and has served as Chair of the Biological Society of Ethiopia, Secretary General of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora Tropical Africa (AETFAT) in addition to being a Council member of International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).[4] He served as Co-Chair of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).[3][4][7]
Awards and honours
In 2016, Demissew was awarded the Kew International Medal.[1][2]
He was elected a
In 2021 Demissew was awarded the
References
- ^ ISSN 0040-0262.
- ^ a b Anon (2016). "Ethiopia's Prof. Sebsebe Demissew awarded prestigious Kew International Medal". kew.org. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ a b c d e "Sebsebe Demissew : CV" (PDF). ipbes.net. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2018). "Professor Sebsebe Demissew ForMemRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 2018-05-15. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- ^ a b Sebsebe Demissew publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- OCLC 12561331.
- ^ ISSN 1877-3435.
- ^ "The man opening Ethiopia's first botanic garden". BBC News. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- PMID 25585296.
- ^ "Prof. Sebsebe becomes first African Foreign Member of the Royal Society". Embassy of Ethiopia, London. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Ethiopian Prof. Designated as 2021 Recipient of José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany". Ethiopia Observer. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
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