Jordi López-Pujol
Dr. Jordi López-Pujol is a full-time researcher at the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (CSIC-ICUB). His research interests include the conservation biology (he is a specialist in conservation genetics of rare and endangered species) and biogeography of plants, particularly in the Mediterranean Basin. He is also deeply interested in the conservation and the evolution of the flora of China (he did his postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Botany of Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Having authored some 80 scientific papers (including 24 articles in SCI journals), he serves regularly as a reviewer in numerous journals, and is recipient of several awards including the Burgen Scholar Award of the Academia Europaea (2007) and the ‘Font i Quer’ Botany Award of the Institute for Catalan Studies (2008).