Wiebke Hillebrecht

Digitisation Officer (Mycology)

Department

Team

Biography

As Digitisation Officer my role is to image and database herbarium specimens held at Kew, in particular as part of the Reflora and Global Plant Initiative projects.

Qualifications and appointments

MSc Horticultural Science, Technische Universität München, 2010
BSc Biological Sciences, University of Konstanz, 2006

Projects

Global Plants Initiative (GPI)

Increasing access to nomenclatural type specimens held in herbaria across the world through digitisation.
Digitising Kew’s plant pathogen collection

Providing the evidence to study and combat the fungi of most threat to plant health in the UK.

Global Plants Initiative (GPI)

Digitising Kew’s plant pathogen collection