MARIA VIBE NORUP
Curriculum Vitae

Personal details:

Date and place of birth: 15.10.1975, in Holte, Copenhagen
Nationality: Danish
E-mail: m.norup@snm.ku.dk or mnorup@hotmail.com
Homepage: www.marianorup.dk

Education:

February 2006-present: Ph.D. student, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Botanical Garden and Museum, Lab. of Molecular Systematics.
December 2004: Cand. Scient. cum laude in Biology (= M.Sc.), University of Aarhus, Denmark
1994: Highschool/Studentereksamen, Aalborg Katedralskole, Denmark

Fieldwork and other relevant botanical training:

September 2006-November 2006: Fieldwork, South Africa, 2 months.
March 2006: Fieldwork, South Africa, 2 weeks.
March 2005-April 2005: Fieldwork, Bolivia, 2 weeks.
September 2004: Fieldtrip, Palawan (Philippines), 1 week.
2004: Tropical Plant Identification Course. 2 weeks intensive course at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Passed with distinctions).
September 2003-April 2004: Determination of SE-Asian Lauraceae. Independently, and with the SE Asian Section of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
August 2002-April 2004: Weekly participation in determination and sorting of incoming herbarium material (tropical South-East Asian plant families), at the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with the SE Asian Section.

Grants received:

2006: Christian & Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat for yngre videnskabsmænd og –kvinder. Travel grant (15.000Dkr)
2006: Augustinus Fonden, Dk. Travel grant (10.000Dkr)
2006: The Oticon Foundation (William Demant’s and Wife Ida Emilie’s Foundation), DK. Travel grant (8.000Dkr)
2006: The foundation of Svend G. Fiedler and wife, DK. Grant to support fieldwork in South Africa (6.000Dkr)
2006: Ph.D. Scholarship (3 yrs), granted by the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
2004: The TOBU Foundation, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Travel grant to support participation in the 6th International Flora Malesiana Symposium, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, the Philippines. (ca. 8.000Dkr)
2003-2004: The Oticon Foundation (William Demant’s and Wife Ida Emilie’s Foundation), DK. Grant to support studies abroad at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. (10.000Dkr)
2003
: National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. Travel grant for participation in the Monocots III Conference, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, California. (ca. 4.000Dkr)
2002: Faculty of Science, University of Aarhus, DK. Overseas study grant to study at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. (ca. 15.000Dkr)

Languages and level of proficiency:

Danish: Mother tongue
English: Fluent, excellent
Italian: Semi-fluent
Scandinavian languages: High
German: Basic

Referees:

Prof. Dr. Scient, Ole Seberg, Botanical Garden and Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Sølvgade 83, Opg. S, 1307 Copenhagen K, DK. Email: oles@snm.ku.dk

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anders S. Barfod, University of Aarhus, Institute of Biological Sciences, Department of Systematic Botany, Ny Munkegade, Build. 540, 8000 Aarhus C, DK. Email: anders.barfod@biology.au.dk

Dr. William J. Baker, Monocot Section: Palmae. Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE,UK. Email: w.baker@kew.org