Kellermann, Jürgen   (1972 -  )

Born in 1972 in Germany;

He studied biochemistry, botany and organic chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (Germany), Monash University (Melbourne) and The University of Melbourne.

His post-graduate training was undertaken at the School of Botany , The University of Melbourne, and the National Herbarium of Victoria , Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne , supervised by Prof. Pauline Y. Ladiges and Dr Frank Udovicic.

He then worked for over two years at the National Herbarium of Victoria on the Flora of Australia treatment of Rhamnaceae, in collaboration with Dr Frank Udovicic & Mr Neville G. Walsh (National Herbarium) and Drs Barbara L. Rye & Kevin R. Thiele (Western Australian Herbarium, Perth). This post-doc was supported by a grant from the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), Canberra.

He then became a senior botanist for the State Herbarium of South Australia, where he is responsible for the State Herbarium's publications, editor of the new fifth edition of Flora of South Australia and of the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, one of five systematic journals published by Australian Herbaria. With Peter Lang, he is responsible for maintaining the SA Census of vascular plants.

His research focuses on the taxonomy and nomenclature of vascular plants, in particular, the plant family Rhamnaceae. He approaches these questions with both morphological and molecular methods in collaboration with colleagues from Australia and overseas.

He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, and member of the Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity (ACEBB).

His australian herbarium collections start in mid-1999.

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/juergen.kellermann#
https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/science/science-research/state-herbarium/our-people/dr-j%C3%BCrgen-kellermann
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Kellermann
Portrait Photo: 2016, M.Fagg, ANBG Photo Collection.

Collecting localities for 'Kellermann, J.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 2,321 specimens