Ulrich Kutschera
Professor
Marine Biological
University of Kassel
Germany
Biography
Ulrich Kutschera is a Full Professor and head of the Department of Plant Physiology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Currently, he is working in Germany and the United States. He has published eight textbooks on Plant Physiology and Evolutionary Biology (in German), and is the author of ca. 190 scientific publications, inclusive of contributions in Nature and Science ,and the description of several new leech species. He is listed in Who is Who in the World, Wikipedia and other sources. Kutschera is Editorial Board Member and Associated Editor of the following journals: Theory in Biosciences; Evolution, Education and Outreach; Plant, Signaling & Behavior; Journal of Applied Botany; Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology and Lauterbornia. In addition, he served as Vice President of the German Association of Biologists (VBiO) and is the chairman of the Section of Evolutionary Biology in the VBiO.
Research Interest
Plant development; Symbiotic bacteria; Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of annelids; History and philosophy of biology.
