Hans ter Steege

Career Summary Project leader, "Forest Programme Mabura Hill" 1987-1989; Programme Team-leader, Tropenbos-Guyana Programme 1989-1992; 1994-1998; Senior Researcher Plant Ecology, UU 1998-2001; Associate Professor, ITC & coordinator Tropenbos Vietnam 2001-2002; Assistant Professor, NHN-U 2002-2012, Chair Plant Systematics (Ag.) 2004-present. Various consultancies funded by a.o. DFID, UNDP, WWF. Naturalis Biodiversity Center 2012 - present, Group Leader Tropical Botany, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Endowed Professor 2017 - present. Specialization and current focus Biodiversity, especially Amazonia Specialized in the study of plant diversity and mechanisms generating and regulating diversity at regional and local scale with a focus on the Neotropics. Special interest in the varying mechanisms, regulating diversity at different scales. Translation into implications for policy and management. Programme Management Ten years of programme management in Guyana, responsible for programme development and monitoring, financial management, scientific backstopping, and translation and dissemination of scientific results into recommendations for forest management. Co-ordination of research programmes (Guyana, Vietnam) from the Netherlands. ICT Wide experience and interest in computer technology. Relational databases, programming, GIS, modelling, spatial statistics.

Doctorate in Tropical Ecology from Universiteit Utrecht (1993), acting on the following subjects: Guyana, Guiana shield, Amazonia, Tree diversity, vegetation ecology