Profile

• Time Zone

  Eastern

  
  
• Organization

  Rutgers University

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  Plant Diversity and Evolution, Everyday Botanical Biodiversity, Ethnobotany, Urban Plants and Weeds, Morphology and Phylogeny

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is best about being a scientist?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):

  Scientists are allowed to be curious and not now the answer to questions. Instead we try to find the answers, and we make up new questions all the time. It is the perfect curiosity-driven work where you get to say 'why is this so?', all the time.

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  What is your favorite plant? Why?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):

  I don't have a favorite plant. I think so many plants are cool and fascinating. Plants keep us alive as part of our foods and medicines. Plants can also kill you because some are toxic. That is why you should know which plant that is front of you, to keep you alive :)

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  What lessons have you learned in your career about how science works?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):

  A lot of scientific work is tedious, slow and detail-oriented, but sometimes it comes in leaps and bursts. A new fossil is found, and suddenly a big new knowledge boost appears for us all. When you do your work, you are depending on knowledge and thoughts people have gained for thousands of year, and you are helping humanity's understanding forward a little bit more. Science is not about finding a particular truth, but to be on the quest to understand the awesomeness that is the universe and its living things a little bit better each day.

  
  
• How did you hear about PlantingScience?

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• Availability

  I am NOT available, please temporarily remove me from the available mentor list

  
  
• Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?

  2