Kew's Science Staff
Kew employs more than 200 scientists and benefits from the unpaid services of several dozen Kew-based Research Fellows and Associates, including many former members of staff post-retirement. Here you can read about the individual research interests and activities of Kew scientists and see some of their recent scientific outputs.
Seed cleaning, x-raying, banking, germination testing, management of herbarium specimens and harvesting of regeneration material.
Isolation and analysis of plant compounds and biological activity testing against agricultural pests.
Looking after Kew's alpine bulb collection and propagating UKOTs plants for conservation use.
Seed Morphologist
Training Specialist
Taxonomy and conservation of Cactaceae; botanical nomenclature; botany and history of cultivated plants; flora of Eastern Brazil; botanic gardens management
Management of seed curation activities.
Urticaceae and Mucuna (Leguminosae) systematic research
Editor of Flora Zambesiaca.
Senior Scientist Diagnostics
Curation Assistant/Data Entry Officer
Management of the spirit collection and mounting unit
Systematics, conservation & sustainable use of bulbous monocots
International Projects Co-ordinator
Answering enquiries to the CEB, specialising in poisonous plant cases; developing an interest and knowledge of botanical jewellery.
International Projects Coordinator
Research into South East Asian plants, especially Primulaceae and Stemonuraceae. Field guides to Thailand, Borneo and New Guinea. Organiser of the Tropical ID Course.
Botanical inventories for conservation management in Cameroon.
International Projects Co-ordinator
Structure, function and diversity of natural products and macromolecules from plants and fungi; specialist in NMR spectroscopy.
Coordinate content gathering for the eMonocot project.
Systematics of Acanthaceae Flora Zambesiaca, general floristic and ecological work in East and Northeast Africa, working with the MSB project in East Africa.
