Systematic botanist (PhD Utrecht, 2005) specialised in molecular systematics with focus on flowering plants, in particular the family Annonaceae and genus Erica (Ericaceae).

An author of papers including [1] [2] [3]

  1. ^ Chatrou, L. W.; M. D. Pirie; R. H. J. Erkens; T. L. P. Couvreur; K. M. Neubig; J. R. Abbott; J. B. Mols; P. J. M. Maas; R. M. K. Saunders; Mark W. Chase (2012). "A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 169: S. 4–50. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01235.x.
  2. ^ Richardson, J. E.; Chatrou, L. W.; Mols, J. B.; Erkens, R. H. J.; Pirie, M. D. (2004). "Historical biogeography of two cosmopolitan families of flowering plants: Annonaceae and Rhamnaceae". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 359 (1450): 1495–1508. doi:10.1098/rstb.2004.1537. ISSN 0962-8436.
  3. ^ Couvreur, Thomas L. P.; Pirie, Michael D.; Chatrou, Lars W.; Saunders, Richard M. K.; Su, Yvonne C. F.; Richardson, James E.; Erkens, Roy H. J. (2011). "Early evolutionary history of the flowering plant family Annonaceae: steady diversification and boreotropical geodispersal". Journal of Biogeography. 38 (4): 664–680. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02434.x. ISSN 0305-0270.