EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY: EXBO Members

Prof. Dr. Klaus Ammann

Director Botanical Garden
University of Bern
Altenbergrain 21
CH-3013 Bern
Phone +41 - 31 631 49 37; Fax +41 - 31 631 49 93
E-mail klaus.ammann@ips.unibe.ch

Prof. Dr. Klaus Ammann
Chairman of the EFB Section on Biodiversity

Curriculum Vitae

Born December 6, 1940
Studied at University of Berne: Thesis on Vegetation History 1972, summa cum laude
Studies at Duke University, NC, USA, Bergen, Norway and Kingston, Jamaica
Director of Botanical Garden, University of Berne since 1996
Prof. hon. University of Berne since 2000

Teaching:

Lecturing in Plant Systematics and Evolution, Biogeography
Lectures on Air Pollution Biomonitoring at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

Committees, among others:

Chairman European Group of Plant Specialists, IUCN
Steering Committee of PLANTA EUROPA
Project coordinator and member of executive board Euro+Med, Red List of Threatened Plants of Europe
Member of coordination group European Science Foundation: AIGM, Risk assessment on transgenic crops
Biosafety Committee of the Government of Switzerland
GMO Expert Group European Commission Directorate General JRC - IPTS
Chairman of the Section on Biodiversity of EFB European Federation of Biotechnology
Editor in Chief (Ecology) of Environmental Biosafety Research

Research Projects:

Chemotaxonomy of macro-lichens, calibrated biomonitoring of air pollution with lichens, molecular systematics with lichens, ecological monitoring, ethnobotany in Jamaica, ecological monitoring in Bulgaria.
Ecological risk assessment of vertical gene flow in Switzerland
2 EU-Projects on Gene Flow and Plant Conservation of Europe
1. Gene Flow of Brassicaceae in Europe, coordinator Swiss participation
2. Euro+Med, coordinator work packages Atlas Florae Europaeae Helsinki, Finland, Caryological Data Base Patras, Greece, European Red List and Website on Popularized Flora Europaea Contents, Botanical Garden, University of Berne, a joint venture with IUCN SSC Group European Plants, Planta Europa and the Council of Europe
2 Projects in collaboration with UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation:
a) Compendium on Risk Assessment Research
b) Global Initiative on Education in Biotechnology
1 Website Project www.bio-scope.org, in collaboration with BioLinX in Frankfurt

His intention is to encourage the process leading to solutions concerning today's crucial themes such as protection of biodiversity, risk assessment of genetically engineered crops and the public debate about biotechnology.

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