Sandra Knapp

Sandra Diane Knapp
Born 1956 (age 61–62)
Alma mater
Occupation
Employer Natural History Museum, London

Sandra Diane Knapp FLS (born 1956) is a botanist. She is Head of the Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London and oversaw the Flora Mesoamericana inventory of Central American plants.[1]

Knapp has a B.A. in botany from Pomona College (1978) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1986). Her main research interest is "the megadiverse genus Solanum, which contains potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants and is one of only a handful of flowering plant genera with more than 1000 species".[2]

She is a trustee of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature[3] and a member of the Advisory Board for National Geographic's Global Exploration Fund.[4]

In October 2014 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was the South American freeze-dried potato product Chuño.[5] In Natural History Heroes, a series collaborating between Radio 4 and the NHM, she chose "Miss - not Dr - Alice Eastwood". Eastwood (1859-1953) was a self-taught botanist of the Western United States.

In 2016 she was awarded, jointly with Georgina Mace, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society [6] In May 2017 Knapp became the president-elect of the Linnean Society, and in May 2018 succeeded Prof. Paul Brakefield as president.[7]

Bibliography

  • Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Wallace in the Amazon. London: The Natural History Museum. 1999. ISBN 978-0-565-09143-9.
  • Potted Histories: An Artistic Voyage Through Plant Exploration. London: Scriptum. 2003. ISBN 978-1-902686-28-8.

References

  1. ↑ Dr Sandra Knapp at the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
  2. ↑ "Dr Sandra Knapp". Staff Directory. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dr Sandra Knapp". International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Sandra Knapp, Botany". Global Exploration Fund. National Geographic. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  5. ↑ "The Museum of Curiosity: Series 7 Episode 2". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "The Linnean Medal". the Linnean Society. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  7. ↑ The Linnean, Vol. 33, No. 2, Oct. 2017, p. 44, Published by The Linnean Society of London
  8. ↑ IPNI.  S.Knapp.


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