Margaret Collinson

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Margaret E. Collinson is a paleobotanist at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.[1]

Career

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Her career has led her to leadership of the Plant Paleobiology Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and wide-ranging within plant Paleobotany as evidenced by her publications. They particularly include consideration of geochemical signatures of oxygen, biomolecules and other elements; the paleoclimate and floral assemblages; pollen and other tissues; and evolution in ancient plants.[2]

She has been president of the International Organization of Paleobotany, a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007),[3] and a corresponding Member of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (Germany). In 2015 she was awarded Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America.[4]

Selected publications

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She is the author or co-author of over 180 scientific publications. Among her most significant publications are:

The standard author abbreviation M.E.Collinson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Royal Society | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Professor Margaret Collinson". Royal Holloway University of London Earth Sciences. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Margaret Collinson". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 25 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America". Botanical Society of America. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  M.E.Collinson.