Loren H. Rieseberg
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Loren H. Rieseberg FRSC FRS FRSB (born 1961) is a Canadian-American botanist.
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Loren H. Rieseberg | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Alberta, Canada |
Alma mater | Washington State University |
Awards | Darwin–Wallace Medal (2012) |
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Fields | Botany |
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Website | www |
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Born in Alberta, Canada, his family moved to the US. He graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. in 1987.
He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University,[1][2] and head of the Rieseberg Lab.[3][4] In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, replacing Sally Otto.[5] He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has edited Molecular Ecology for many years.[2][6]