Tinde van Andel
Tinde van Andel | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ethnobotany |
| Institutions | University of Leiden, Wageningen University, Utrecht University, Naturalis Biodiversity Center |
Tinde van Andel is an ethnobotanist. She is appointed as Special Professor of History of Botany and Gardens and the Clausius Chair at Leiden University.[1] Using ethnobotany and genomics, she studies how human populations and plant species migrated from Africa to the New World.[2]
Research and career
Van Andel studies historic botanical collections and knowledge systems behind them. She aims to digitize and "decolonize" these collections to improve accessibility to both researchers and to the people in the countries where the plants and knowledge originally came from.[3]
Van Andel graduated with a Master's degree in Biology from the University of Amsterdam. She earned her PhD in Ethnobotany from the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Utrecht University in 2000 and stayed on to complete her postdoc from 2005-2009. From 2010-2015, van Andel conducted a second postdoc at Naturalis and Leiden University.[4] She was granted an NWO Vidi Award in 2009, titled "Plantgebruik uit moeder Afrika" (in English, "Plant use from Mother Africa").[5]
in 2015, van Andel was appointed Special Professor of Ethobotany at Wageningen University, and later that year as Special Professor of History of Botany and Gardens at Leiden University, where she holds the Clausius Chair[6].
Awards and honors
NWO Vidi Award[5]
NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research (2020)[7]
References
- ^ Andel, T. van (2017), Open the treasure room and decolonize the museum: Inaugural lecture delivered by Prof.dr. Tinde van Andel on the occasion of the acceptance of the position of Special professor of the Clusius chair of History of Botany and Gardens at Leiden University Friday 6 January 2017, Leiden University, hdl:1887/51665
- ^ "Annual Distinguished Ethnobotany Lecture 2016". www.kent.ac.uk. University of Kent. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "'Decolonise the botanical treasure house'". Leiden University. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2026-03-06.
- ^ "prof.dr. TR (Tinde) van Andel". Wageningen University & Research (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-03-06.
- ^ a b NWO. "Vidi 2009". Retrieved 6 March 2026.
- ^ "Clusiusleerstoel – Clusiusstichting" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-03-06.
- ^ "Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research". Leiden University. 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2026-03-06.
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