Upload Avatar (500 x 500)
Harald Schneider
Life Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunnan
Language: English, Chinese, German
Taxonomy
Phylogeny
Evolution
Biodiversity
Conservation
Genetics
Genomics
Species
Plants
Biology
Areas of Focus
- Systematics and Evolution
- Conservation Biology
- Genomics
Work Experience
- 2017-03 to Present - Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher/Group Leader
- 2015-09 to 2017-03 - Sun Yat-sen University, China - Professor
- 2015-06 to Present - University of Bristol, UK - Visiting Researcher
- 2011-01 to 2011-12 - Chinese Academy of Sciences - Specially Appointed Foreign Researcher
- 2006-12 to Present - Natural History Museum, UK - Principal Researcher
- 2002-01 to 2006-11 - University of Göttingen, Germany - Associate Researcher
- 2001-05 to 2001-12 - Duke University, USA - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2000-01 to 2001-04 - University of California, Berkeley, USA - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 1999-01 to 1999-12 - Field Museum, USA - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 1996-08 to 1998-12 - Leiden University, Netherlands - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1992-10 to 1996-02 PhD in Science: University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1986-10 to 1992-07 Bachelor's and Master's in Science: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Publications
- Thylacopteris minuta (Polypodiaceae), a new fern species from Myanmar, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Lepisorus rufofuscus sp. nov. (Polypodiaceae), a New Fern Species Segregated from L. angustus Ching, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Historical plant records enlighten the conservation efforts of ferns and Lycophytes’ diversity in tropical China, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Bacterial Microbiome in the Phyllo-Endosphere of Highly Specialized Rock Spleenwort, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Genomic Insights into Genetic Diploidization in the Homosporous Fern Adiantum nelumboides, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Re-appraisal of lacewing mimicry of liverworts from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, Myanmar with a description of Selaginella cretacea sp. nov. (Selaginellales, Selaginellaceae), Harald Schneider, 2022
- Lepisorus medioximus (Polypodiales, Polypodiaceae), a new species from Shan State of Myanmar, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber, Harald Schneider, 2022
- Phylogenetic Relationships of Grammitid Fern Diversity of Gunung Tama Abu (Sarawak), Harald Schneider, 2022
- Evolutionary morphology of ferns, Harald Schneider, 2013
Awards
- **** (2017): National Level
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Senior Visiting Scholar (2011): Other
- Fellow of the Linnean Society (2007): Other
- Marie Curie Scholar (1996): Other
