Gregor Hagedorn


Gregor Hagedorn is a German botanist and Academic Director at the Natural History Museum, Berlin.

Life

Gregor Hagedorn studied biology at the University of Tübingen and at Duke University. Afterwards, he worked in the Department of Mycology at the University of Bayreuth until 2007. In 2007 his dissertation on "Structuring Descriptive Data of Organisms – Requirement Analysis and Information Models" was completed at the University of Bayreuth.
From 1992 to 2013 he was a staff member at the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, now Julius Kühn Institute. He played a major role in the development of a data standard for describing gender within the Taxonomic Databases Working Group.
Since 2013, Hagedorn has been working at the Museum of Natural History Berlin, first as Head of Digital World and Information Science, then as Academic Director.
Between 2014 and 2018 Hagedorn was a member of the German National Council for Information Infrastructures as a representative of the scientific organisations.

Scientists for Future

Together with other scientists, Hagedorn founded the grassroots movement Scientists for Future in March 2019. He was inspired by the initiative of Belgian scientists in January 2019, supporting the Fridays for Future movement.. In a circle of 30 people the first statement of Scientists For Future was written, which was signed by 26800 scientists in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

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