Team
DiSSCo Coordination and Support Office (CSO)
DiSSCo’s CSO leads the work on development of the RI and consortium, securing the required political and financial support, managing (and contributing to) the writing process of DiSSCo-linked project proposal, and coordinating the activities of the National task Forces at the national level.
Dimitris Koureas
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Wouter Addink
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Ana Casino
CETAF, BE
Eva Alonso
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Sharif Islam
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Vania Leonardo
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Marco Lovric
CETAF, BE
Laura Tilley
CETAF, BE
Jose Alonso
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Alessandro Marchi
CETAF, BE
Sam Leeflang
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Soulaine Theocharides
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Tom Dijkema
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
DiSSCo Technical Team
DiSSCo’s technical team is in charge of developing the technical infrastructure or DiSSCo RI.
Wouter Addink (Chair)
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Urmas Kõljalg
University of Tartu, EE
Sharif Islam
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Claus Weiland
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, DE
Anton Güntsch
Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, DE
Sam Leeflang
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL
Laurence Livermore
Natural History Museum, UK
Former members
Matt Woodburn
Natural History Museum London, UK
Falko Glöckler
Berlin Natural History Museum, DE
The whole team
Who’s on board?
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The consortium members are organised in National Task Forces. Each of those is represented by a national head, which you can contact through these e-mail addresses:
AUSTRIA
Heimo Rainer
[email protected]
BELGIUM
Patricia Mergen / Serge Scory
[email protected]
BULGARIA
Boyko Georgiev
[email protected]
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiřri Frank
[email protected]
DENMARK
Henrik Enghoff
[email protected]
ESTONIA
Urmas Köljalg
[email protected]
FINLAND
Leif Schulman
[email protected]
FRANCE
Michel Guiraud
[email protected]
GERMANY
Christoph Häuser
[email protected]
GREECE
Katerina Vardinoyiannis / Petros Lymberakis
[email protected]
HUNGARY
Beáta Papp
[email protected]
ITALY
Luca Bartolozzi
[email protected]
LUXEMBOURG
Tania Walisch
[email protected]
NETHERLANDS
Nils Raes
[email protected]
NORWAY
Hugo de Boer
[email protected]
POLAND
Piotr Tykarski
[email protected]
PORTUGAL
Maria Judite Alves
[email protected]
SLOVAKIA
Karol Marhold
[email protected]
SPAIN
Santiago Merino
[email protected]
SWEDEN
Per Andersson
[email protected]
UNITED KINGDOM
Vince Smith
[email protected]
CETAF
Ana Casino
[email protected]
National Nodes
The consortium members are organised in National Task Forces, each of them represented by a national head. You can find the whole list of national heads and their emails in the contact section.
Interim General Assembly Members
Edwin van Huis (Chair) (NL)
Aino Juslen (Vice-Chair) (FI)
iGA MEMBERS (NATIONAL NODES)
Natural History Museum of Denmark (DK)
Henrik Enghoff
Nikolaj Scharff
Finnish Museum of Natural History – LUOMUS (FI)
Paula Kankaanpää
Ilari Saaksjarvi
Natural History Museum, University of Florence (IT)
Marco Benvenuti
Lorenzo Cecchi
Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities – CETAF
Michelle Price
University of Tartu, Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden (EE)
Urmas Koljalg
Martin Vipp
National Museum of Natural History, Paris (FR)
Gildas Illien
Francois Dusoulier
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL)
Eva van der Veer
Niels Raes
iGA MEMBERS (INSTITUTIONS)
Meise Botanic Garden (BE)
Steven Dessein
Patricia Mergen
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin (DE)
Thomas Borsch
Eva Haffner
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research (DE)
Claus Weiland
Karsten Wesche
Natural History Museum London (UK)
Tim Littlewood
Vince Smith
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (BE)
Serge Scory
Carole Paleco
Museum fur Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (DE)
Jana Hoffmann
Mareike Petersen
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (DE)
Bernhard Misof
Till Topfer
Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (DE)
Joris Peters
Amaryllis Vidalis
iGA ASSOCIATE MEMBERS (NODES)
Natural History Museum Vienna (AT)
Katrin Vohland
Heimo Rainer
National Museum, Prague (CZ)
Jiri Frank
Pavla Růžková
Natural History Museum of Crete – University of Crete (GR)
Katerina Vardinoyannis
Petros Lymberakis
University of Warsaw (PL)
Marcin Palys
Piotr Tykarski
Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
Karol Marhold
Janka Smatanova
Swedish Museum of Natural History (SE)
Steffen Kiel
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (BG)
Boyko Georgiev
Borislav Gueorguiev
Hungarian Natural History Museum (HU)
Gabor Csorba
Beata Papp
National Museum of Natural History – University of Oslo (NO)
Hugo de Boer
Dag Endresen
National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon (PT)
Maria Judite Alves
Maria Joao Fonseca
Spanish National Research Council (ES)
Isabel Rey Fraile
Celia Maria Santos Mazorra
Musee National d’Histoire Naturel, Luxembourg (LU)
Paul Braun
Alexander Weigand
National Natural History Collection, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Gila Kahila Bar-Gal
Irit Zohar
Musnatcoll (CH)
Alice Cibois
Holger Frick
iGA ASSOCIATE MEMBERS (INSTITUTIONS)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) (BE)
Leen Vandepitte
Lennert Tyberghein
Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp (BE)
Zjef Pereboom
Philippe Helsen
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Herbarium (BE)
Pierre Meerts
Tariq Stevart
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew (UK)
Alan Paton
Alexandre Antonelli
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) (BE)
Aaike De Wever
Gerald Louette
Royal Museum for Central Africa (BE)
Didier Van Den Spiegel
Bart Ouvry
University of Namur (BE)
Frederik Delaender
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK)
Peter Hollingsworth
Elspeth Haston
Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart (DE)
Lars Krogman
Peter Warth
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) (BE)
Kris Hostens
Liselot Breyne
KU Leuven – University of Leuven (BE)
Ann Van Baelen
Nathalie Poot
UGent – University of Ghent (BE)
Steven Verstockt
Freddy Mortier